Clifford Bob. 2019 “Social Movements and Transnational Context: Institutions, Strategies, and Conflicts”. Chapter 6 of Snow et al Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Social Movements available through UW library. Definitions, multi-level governance and transnational activism, forms of transnational interaction, effects.
Massimiliano Andretta, Donatella della Porta, Clare Saunders “Globalization and Social Movements” chapter 34 of Snow et al Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Social Movements available through UW library. Global capitalism and social movements; movements and political globalization, global movements and culture.
Kiyoteru Tsutsui and Jackie Smith, “Human Rights and Social Movements: From the Boomerang Pattern to a Sandwich Effect” Chapter 33 of Snow et al Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Social Movements available through UW library. 2019.
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, S. (2001). “TRANSNATIONAL POLITICS: Contention and Institutions in International Politics.” Annual Review of Political Science 4(1): 1-20. (Links to an external site.) http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev.polisci.4.1.1 ( Need to distinguish among movements, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and transnational networks and specify their relations with states and international institutions. This paper argues that mass-based transnational social movements are hard to construct, are difficult to maintain, and have very different relations to states and international institutions than more routinized international NGOs or activist networks. Rather than being the antipodes of transnational contention, international institutions offer resources, opportunities, and incentives for the formation of actors in transnational politics. If transnational social movements form, it will be through a second-stage process of domestication of international conflict.
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.
Cases
Moss, D. M. (2016). Transnational Repression, Diaspora Mobilization, and the Case of The Arab Spring. Social Problems, 63(4), 480–498. sih. Do authoritarian states deter dissent in the diaspora? Using data on Libyan and Syrian activism in the United States and Great Britain, this study demonstrates that they do through violence, exile, threats, surveillance, and by harming dissidents’ relatives at home. The analysis finds that the transnational repression of these diasporas deterred public antiregime mobilization before the Arab Spring. I then identify the mechanisms by which Libyans and Syrians overcame these effects during the 2011 revolutions. Activists “came out” when (1) violence at home changed their relatives’ circumstances and upset repression’s relational effects; (2) the sacrifices of vanguard activists expanded their objects of obligation, leading them to embrace cost sharing; and (3) the regimes were perceived as incapable of making good on their threats. However, differences in the regimes’ perceived capacities to repress in 2011 produced significant variation in the pace of diaspora emergence over time and guarded advocacy. The study advances understanding of transnationalism by demonstrating how states exercise coercive power across borders and the conditions under which diasporas mobilize to publicly and collectively challenge home-country regimes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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
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.
Boudreau, V. (1996). “Northern Theory, Southern Protest: Opportunity Structure Analysis in Cross-National Perspective.” Mobilization 1(2): 175-189.
Smith, J. (1995). “Transnational Political Processes and the Human Rights Movement.” Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change 18: 185-219
Maney, G. M. (2001). “Transnational Structures and Protest: Linking Theories and Assessing Evidence.” Mobilization 6(1): 83-100.
Todd Wolfson foregrounds communication technologies in his study on the Zapatistas movement.
Levi and Murphy – Coalitions of Contention: The Case of the WTO Protests in Seattle (2006)
Hopewell – Multilateral trade governance as social field: Global civil society and the WTO (2015)
Staggenborg – Event Coalitions in the Pittsburgh G20 Protests (2015)
Xu, X. (2013). Belonging Before Believing: Group Ethos and Bloc Recruitment in the Making of Chinese Communism. American Sociological Review, 78(5), 773–796. SocINDEX with Full Text. Why did Communism take root in China during the May Fourth Movement era (1917 to 1921)? I argue that a key factor was the revolutionary vanguard’s emergence through taking over existing activist organizations. Using reports and meeting minutes of 28 organizations and individual activists’ correspondence, diaries, and memoirs as sources for comparative cross-sectional analysis and processual case studies of the organizational debates over whether to adopt Bolshevism as a unifying ism, I find that a crucial factor explaining an organization’s positive response to Communist bloc recruitment was whether it practiced ethical activism, which engendered a sectarian group ethos that meshed with Bolshevik organizational culture. By contrast, the absence of ethical activism, and the correlative mismatch in organizational ethos, was associated with a negative response to Communist recruitment efforts. Two key mechanisms—frame resonance and group discipline—mediate this selective attraction. I conclude by discussing how organization-level analysis of selective spillover between social movements enhances our understanding of both individual participants’ motivations and the distinct style in which a movement responds to its political environment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Lim, A., & Tsutsui, K. (2012). Globalization and Commitment in Corporate Social Responsibility: Cross-National Analyses of Institutional and Political-Economy Effects. American Sociological Review, 77(1), 69–98. SocINDEX with Full Text. This article examines why global corporate social responsibility (CSR) frameworks have gained popularity in the past decade, despite their uncertain costs and benefits, and how they affect adherents’ behavior. We focus on the two largest global frameworks—the United Nations Global Compact and the Global Reporting Initiative—to examine patterns of CSR adoption by governments and corporations. Drawing on institutional and political-economy theories, we develop a new analytic framework that focuses on four key environmental factors—global institutional pressure, local receptivity, foreign economic penetration, and national economic system. We propose two arguments about the relationship between stated commitment and subsequent action: decoupling due to lack of capacity and organized hypocrisy due to lack of will. Our cross-national time-series analyses show that global institutional pressure through nongovernmental linkages encourages CSR adoption, but this pressure leads to ceremonial commitment in developed countries and to substantive commitment in developing countries. Moreover, in developed countries, liberal economic policies increase ceremonial commitment, suggesting a pattern of organized hypocrisy whereby corporations in developed countries make discursive commitments without subsequent action. We also find that in developing countries, short-term trade relations exert greater influence on corporate CSR behavior than do long-term investment transactions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Books:
Tarrow, Sidney. The New Transnational Activism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Della Porta, et. al. – Globalization from Below (2006)
Tarrow – Power in Movement, Third Edition. Chapter 13: Transnational Contention (2011)
Risse-Kappen – Bringing Transnational Relations Back In: Non-state actors, domestic structures, and international institutions (1995)
Keck and Sikkink – Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics (1998)