Sociology 924: Social Movements Seminar Calendar Pamela Oliver

International/Transnational Movements

• Mara Loveman. "High-Risk Collective Action: Defending Human Rights in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina." American Journal of Sociology; 1998, 104, 2, Sept, 477-525. Activism depends on strategies of repression, embedded networks, and international ties. PDF file
• Smith, Jackie (2004). Transnational Processes and Movements. The Blackwell Companion to Social Movements. D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule and H. Kriesi. Malden, MA and Oxford, UK, Blackwell Publishing: 311-335. World system and national state, global institutions. Globalization. Transnational movement dynamics: movements reshaped to fit transnational discourses, arenas of engagement (e.g. conferences), resources and leverage. Cooperation and conflict. Transnational strategies.
• Tarrow, Power in Movement, Chapter 11.
• Tarrow, Sidney. Contentious Europeans: Domestic and Transnational
• Tarrow, Sidney . Rooted Cosmopolitans: Transnational Activists in a World of States
• Jackie Smith (Editor), Charles Chatfield (Editor), Ron Pagnucco (Editor). Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics : Solidarity Beyond the State (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution) Paperback (October 1997) Syracuse Univ Pr
• Margaret E. Keck, Kathryn Sikkink. Activists Beyond Borders : Advocacy Networks in International Politics. Paperback - Cornell Univ Pr;
• Transnational Advocacy Networks in the Movement Society, Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink. In Meyer & Tarrow, eds, Social Movement Society.
• Maney, G. M. (2001). "Transnational Structures and Protest: Linking Theories and Assessing Evidence." Mobilization 6(1): 83-100. Combines world-system, dependency, & international relations theories with political process theory to generate propositions. The available evidence indicates that cyclical phases in the capitalist world economy, economic & political dependency, & competition & conflict among states significantly affect dimensions of political opportunity.
• Maney, Gregory M. "Transnational Mobilization and Civil Rights in Northern Ireland" Social Problems. May 2000 v47 i2 p153. Transnational alliances had negative as well as positive effects. HTML file (of plain text) Text file
• Thomas Risse-Kappen (Editor). Bringing Transnational Relations Back in : Non-State Actors, Domestic Structures and International Institutions. (Cambridge Studies in International relations). Paperback (November 1995. Cambridge Univ Pr
• Smith, J. (1995). "Transnational Political Processes and the Human Rights Movement." Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change 18: 185-219.
• Franklin D. Rothman and Pamela Oliver. "From Local to Global: The Anti-Dam Movement in Southern Brazil, 1979-1992." Mobilization: An International Journal 4 (1 April) 1999. On-line copy
• Hanagan , Michael Irish Transnational Social Movements, Deterritorialized Migrants, and the State System: The Last One Hundred and Forty Years. Mobilization; 1998, 3, 1, Mar, 107-126
• McAdam, D. and D. Rucht (1993). "The Cross-National Diffusion of Movement Ideas." Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 528: 56-74.
• Boudreau, V. (1996). "Northern Theory, Southern Protest: Opportunity Structure Analysis in Cross-National Perspective." Mobilization 1(2): 175-189. Modifying political opportunity theory to apply to developing countires.
• Caniglia, B. S. (2001). "Informal Alliances vs Institutional Ties: The Effects of Elite Alliances on Environmental TSMO Networks." Mobilization 6(1): 37-54. Effects of elites vary depending upon network structures.
• Chabot, S. (2000). "Transnational Diffusion and the African American Reinvention of Gandhian Repertoire." Mobilization 5(2): 201-216.
• Giugni, M. G. (1998). "The Other Side of the Coin: Explaining Crossnational Similarities between Social Movements." Mobilization 3(1): 89-105. The explanations are integrated: globalization, structural affinity, diffusion.
• Schock, K. (1999). "People Power and Political Opportunities: Social Movement Mobilization and Outcomes in the Philippines and Burma." Social Problems 46(3): 355-375. Modify political opportunity for nondemocratic contexts. Influential allies & elite divisions influenced the mobilization & outcomes, but also the undertheorized role of the international context & the importance of press freedoms & information flows. Configuration approach is offered.
• Smith, J. (2001). "Globalizing Resistance: The Battle of Seattle and the Future of Social Movements." Mobilization 6(1): 1-19.

Sociology 924: Social Movements Calendar Pamela Oliver

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