The New Transnational Activism

by Sidney Tarrow

• ISBN13: 9780521616775
• ISBN10: 0521616778
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-08-01
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The New Transnational Activism shows how even the most prosaic activities can assume broader political meanings when they provide ordinary people with the experience of crossing transnational space. This means that we cannot be satisfied with defining transnational activists through the ways they think. The defining feature of transnationalism in this book is relational, and not cognitive. This emphasis on activism's relational structure means that even as they make transnational claims, transnational activists draw on the resources, the networks, and the opportunities in which they are embedded, and only then - if at all - on more distant transnational links. But we can no more sharply draw a line between domestic and international politics in studying transnational activism than we could ignore local politics in studying its national equivalent. Understanding the processes that link the local, the national and the international is the major undertaking of the book.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	xi
List of Figures	xii
Preface and Acknowledgments	xiii
1 INTRODUCTION	1	(14)
Part One Structure, Process, and Actors
2 INTERNATIONALISM AND CONTENTION	15	(20)
3 ROOTED COSMOPOLITANS AND TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISTS	35	(24)
Part Two The Global in the Local
4 GLOBAL FRAMING	59	(18)
5 INTERNALIZING CONTENTION	77	(22)
Part Three Transitional Processes
6 DIFFUSION AND MODULARITY	99	(21)
7 SHIFTING THE SCALE OF CONTENTION	120	(23)
Part Four The Local in the Global
8 EXTERNALIZING CONTENTION	143	(18)
9 BUILDING TRANSNATIONAL COALITIONS	161
Part Five Transnational Impacts at Home and Abroad
10 TRANSNATIONAL IMPACTS ON DOMESTIC ACTIVISM	183	(18)
11 TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISM AND INTERNATIONALIZATION	201	(20)
Glossary	221	(4)
Sources	225	(24)
Index	249