Third ISA Forum of Sociology (July 10-14, 2016)

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The Transnationality of Transnational Movements

RC48 Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change (host committee)

Language: English

At the XVIIIth Congress of the ISA in Yokohama several excellent papers delivered by PhD students addressed diverse ways in which one can tackle transnational social movements. Although there is burgeoning research in this area, the research gap remains considerable. 
This session is meant for presentations offering innovative yet compelling ideas about what belongs to the category of transnational movements and how they can be studied. Empirical work should be at the core of one’s theorizing. Particularly welcome are also presentations on the cooperation between social movements and states or regional or transnational organizations, even business enterprises. 
While International Relations as a discipline has acknowledged and tried to explain such cooperation, seeing states and such organizations as allies (if not friends) of social movements on particular issues, social movement literature has tended to define them as foes and objects of contention. The session calls for papers which inquire into the causes, beginnings and nuts and bolts of cooperation between social movements and state or regional or transnational organizations. Posters: