The New Transnational Activism(ISBN=9780521616775)

　　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.
　　? Covers both north and south of transnational politics ? Historical and contemporary perspectives ? Focuses on processes and mechanisms of transnational politics

List of Tables page xi
List of Figures xii
Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
　1   INTRODUCTION
Part One   Structure, Process, and Actors 
　2   INTERNATIONALISM AND CONTENTION
　3   ROOTED COSMOPOLITANS AND TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISTS
Part Two   The Global in the Local 
　4   GLOBAL FRAMING
　5   INTERNALIZING CONTENTION
Part Three   Transitional Processes 
　6   DIFFUSION AND MODULARITY
　7   SHIFTING THE SCALE OF CONTENTION
Part Four   The Local in the Global 
　8   EXTERNALIZING CONTENTION
　9   BUILDING TRANSNATIONAL COALITIONS
Part Five   Transnational Impacts at Home and Abroad 
　10   TRANSNATIONAL IMPACTS ON DOMESTIC ACTIVISM
　11   TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISM AND INTERNATIONALIZATION
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