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New Transnational Activism
Sidney Tarrow
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Description for New Transnational Activism
Paperback. This 2005 book argues that individuals move into transnational activism which links domestic to international politics. Series Editor(s): McAdam, Douglas; Tilly, Charles. Series: Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics. Num Pages: 278 pages, 12 b/w illus. 8 tables. BIC Classification: JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 450.
The New Transnational Activism, first published in 2005, 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 ... Read more
The New Transnational Activism, first published in 2005, 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1900
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521616775
SKU
V9780521616775
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About Sidney Tarrow
Sidney Tarrow is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government and Professor of Sociology at Cornell University. Tarrow's first book was Peasant Communism in Southern Italy (Yale, 1967). In the 1980s, after a brief foray into comparative local politics, he returned to social movements with a collaborative volume with B. Klandermans and H. Kriesi, Between Structure and Action (JAI, 1988); ... Read more
Reviews for New Transnational Activism
'... Tarrow's book is highly valuable. It provides a taxonomy of forms of transnational activism that is certain to be taken up by other scholars of global social movements. His account of the range and variety of processes that characterise contentious politics at the international level seems very plausible. He also sends out an important warning to those who ... Read more