The new transnational activism / Sidney Tarrow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tarrow, Sidney G.

Series:

Cambridge studies in contentious politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internationalism.

Coalitions.

Political activists.

Transnationalism.

Physical Description:

xv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Summary:

From labor organizers to immigrant activists, from environmentalists to human rights campaigners, from global justice protesters to Islamic militants, this book shows how ordinary people gain new perspectives, experiment with new forms of action, and sometimes emerge with new identities through their contacts across borders. It asks to what extent transnational activism changes domestic actors, their forms of claim making, and their prevailing strategies. Does it simply project the conflicts and alignments familiar from domestic politics onto a broader stage, or does it create a new political arena in which domestic and international contentions fuse? And if the latter, how will this development affect internationalization and the traditional division between domestic and international politics?

Contents:

Introduction

Structure, process and actors

Internationalism and contention

Rooted cosmopolitans and transnational activists

The global in the local

Global framing

Internalizing contention

Transitional processes

Diffusion and modularity

Shifting the scale of contention

The local in the global

Externalizing contention

Building transnational coalitions

Transnational impacts at home and abroad

Transnational impacts on domestic activism

Transnational activism and internationalization

Glossary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-248) and index.

ISBN:

0521851300

0521616778

OCLC:

57422596

Publisher Number:

9780521851305

9780521616775