THE TRANSNATIONAL CONDITION
Protest Dynamics in an Entangled Europe
Edited by Simon Teune
Foreword by Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University
"The volume makes a substantial contribution to the study of social movements and of the many social processes related to globalization. It addresses deficits and limitations in the existing literature on transnational movements in ways that should help movement scholars to frame the issues in new and more complex ways."
- Joe Bandy, Bowdoin College
INFO.
Hardback: 244 pages
Publisher: Berghahn Books (August 2010)
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-84545-728-0
Prices: $70/ £40
EDITOR.
Simon Teune
Social Science Research Center
(Berlin, Germany)
ABOUT THE VOLUME.
During the last two decades Europe has experienced a rise in transnational contention. Citizens are crossing borders to advance alternative visions of Europe. They spread protest concepts and tactics and explore new ways of organizing dissent. Far from being a recent phenomenon, transnational protest is obviously more salient in a world of international corporations and global political interaction, compounded by electronic communication and cheap travel.
The transnational condition permeates all aspects of protest organization and dynamics - from individual biographies to activist networks to cycles of contention. The contributors offer insight into this multi-faceted condition by combining rich empirical evidence with reflections on the problems of transnational research.
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CONTENTS.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Transnational Condition. An Introduction
MICRO LEVEL: TRANSNATIONAL
ACTIVISTS AND ORGANIZATIONS
MESO LEVEL: TRANSNATIONAL
NETWORKS, TRANSNATIONAL
PUBLIC SPHERES
MACRO LEVEL: PROTEST
AND SOCIETAL SYSTEMS
METHODOLOGY AND THEORY OF
TRANSNATIONAL SOCIAL
MOVEMENT RESEARCH
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
