New Transnational Activism

Name: New Transnational Activism
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ISBN: 9780521616775

ISBN-10: 0521616778

ISBN-13: 9780521616775

Edition: 2005

Authors: Sidney Tarrow, Douglas McAdam, Charles Tilly, Charles Tilly

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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…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 278
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.06" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Charles Tilly (1929-2008) was the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. His books include "Why?" (Princeton) and "Democracy".




Structure, Process and Actors



Introduction



Complex internationalism



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



Transnationalism at Home and Abroad



Transnational impacts on domestic activism



Internationalization and transnational activism