Transnational Social Movements
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Historicizes the emergence of communication technologies as used by a network of Indigenous Peoples when the Internet started to unequally reach different sectors of society at the outset of the event.
The Introduction elaborates a new theoretical perspective of addressing the legal form. Instead of taking it for a starting point of elucidating Evgeny Pashukanis’s thought, it presents it as a conceptual event – a concept that evolves in... more
Masonic studies stand at a crossroads. By overcoming its isolation, integrating into broader academic fields, and embracing innovative research methodologies, the field can secure its rightful place within the academic community. This... more
This article provides theoretical and contextual background to The Academic Question of Palestine. Building on the work of Edward Said, we maintain that Palestine constitutes a unique question with special status in international academic... more
A proposed bill is to revert the earlier agreements that protected the rights of the Māori people to retaining land under 1840, should apply to all New Zealanders. Prior to becoming law, the voting process had to be suspended due to... more
One way to describe a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is as a listening exercise. TRCs are intended to strengthen democracy, peace, and human rights by, at least in part, listening: listening to members of a community who have... more
This short write-up deals with the resistance and resolve of the indigenous people in New Zeeland and Northeast.
This panel focuses on collective responses organized to address social, economic and political concerns and hardships due to the retrenchment of social policies in European countries, during the periods of the global financial crisis and... more
- by Maria Kousis
This Report is focused on mapping anti-gender discourses in media and parliamentary debates across five case studies: the European Parliament, UK, Poland, Switzerland and Hungary. Overall, the research found an animated anti-gender... more
La rivolta sociale cilena analizzata a partire dal punto di vista di tre donne migranti.
Wie weit kann man den Rahmen eines kulturwissenschaftlichen Museums dehnen, damit es noch ein Museum bleibt? Wie weit muss ich den Rahmen eines kulturwissenschaftlichen Museums dehnen, damit es ein Museum der Zukunft wird? Im Jahr 2024... more
This article presents a novel analytical framework to study transnational activism in the context of today's international governance architecture. While there is a considerable amount of literature on the emergence, development and... more
Nearly 5 years have passed since the #MeToo movement's worldwide impact. In the meantime, many serious issues have surfaced, with considerable global backlash in response to claims concerning gender equality. How did the #MeToo movement... more
A study of the Brazilian Movimento dos Pequenos Agricultores during recent moments of regime change suggests two main strategies for understanding the impacts of political change on social movement action: assessing the degree of... more
Since the late 1980s, academics and activists have been drawing attention to a slow-moving global crisis: the ongoing destruction of global linguistic diversity. Despite this attention, language loss has proceeded unabated, and... more
Analyses from political ecology and other disciplines show on the one hand how projects of hydroelectric power production can lead to situations of corporate slow violence. On the other hand, contributions of the same disciplines analyse... more
Headline: RESIST reveals the depth of impact of the so called ‘anti-gender’ politics on lives of cis-women, trans people, LGBTIQ+ groups. Lead: RESIST project has shown multiple, negative consequences of the so-called ‘anti gender’... more
The rise of ‘anti-gender' movements, discourses, and politics poses a significant threat to gender equality, LGBTQI+ rights, and to freedom, as democratic values across Europe. The previous RESIST report shows that these mobilisations,... more
This interdisciplinary report addresses the question of how to improve the urban participation of Berlin’s residents, regardless of their citizenship or residency status. Berlin is home to an estimated 60,000 to 100,000 people with a so... more
The subject of transnational terrorism has become a significant global concern with farreaching effects in the age of globalization. The paper explores the complex relationship between globalization and transnational terrorism, explaining... more
Von den indigenen Forderungen nach Würde und Anerkennung und der zapatistischen Selbstorganisation im Südosten von Mexiko
Nowadays, over one million Mon-speaking people live in Mon communities of southeastern Myanmar, and the Mon descendants live in Thailand and across various nations. This paper examines the transnational movements among the Mons in... more
Human society has been progressing by leaps and bound. Our education has not kept pace with evolving Information Age, knowledge age and wisdom age. The quality of human living experience is shallow, restricted and constricted. Human brain... more
The dominant narrative of diasporic Korean American history has been founded upon on the narratives the Korean Independence Movement from the continental US and Hawai‘i. It centers the leaders and participants of the movement who began to... more
Transnational Cultures Series Editors: Professor Simone Brioni and Professor E. K. Tan (Stony Brook University) ISSN: 2297-2854 www.peterlang.com/series/trcu Transnational Cultures promotes inquiry into the cultural productions... more
El texto actualiza un articulo fundamental en la trayectoria de Diani y en el campo de los estudios sobre movimientos sociales "El concepto de movimiento social" (1992). A traves del analisis de las definiciones ofrecidas por... more
This article argues that we need to be more cautious with the dichotomy between “corporate” and “alternative” media widely accepted within critical media studies. This division can be misleading, especially if applied to non-Western... more
The Eritrean government relies upon its substantial exile community around the world for political support and an estimated one-third of its finances. This is particularly important for President Isaias Afwerki's government, since it is... more
La firma de los Tratados de Libre Comercio de la Union Europea (UE) con Peru, Colombia y Centroamerica, se ha convertido para el Gobierno espanol en uno de sus ‘objetivos prioritarios’ para la Cumbre de la Union Europea-America Latina y... more
At the Hoover Institution, I found a space where academic freedom, debate, and discussion is not only permitted but truly encouraged. This is crucial during these times, especially in relation to the study of contemporary antisemitism. I... more
Esta tese de doutorado analisa como os movimentos feministas e antifeministas transnacionais promoveram a difusão e a internalização de normas internacionais sobre direitos reprodutivos no Brasil e na Argentina entre 2010 e 2022. A... more
La molteplicità di traiettorie che ha coinvolto autori e testi nel loro ingresso in nuovi sistemi letterari ha visto la necessaria convergenza di approcci metodologici diversi. Il convegno tenutosi a Buenos Aires è una chiara... more
Dedicated to Fred Moten, inspiration and friend. fter listening to a 90-minute comprehensive webinar on campus protests and antisemitism, led by a prominent Hillel rabbi at an elite university, I was shocked that there was no mention of... more
This study investigates how drought can make conflicts worse within countries. As the impacts of climate change become more serious, there's growing interest in how climate and conflict are connected. While it's widely accepted that... more
La première édition du Forum social québécois (FSQ) s'est terminée le 26 août 2007, et les membres du comité organisateur se félicitaient par voie de communiqué de la réussite de cet événement. En lisant ce document, on comprend que le... more
This essay argues that Inayatullah Khan al-Mashriqi's anti-imperialist stance and contestation of religious orthodoxy with a modernist vision of Islam as a "Religion of Science,"challenged the traditional authority of religious ideologues... more
Alexis Clérel, graaf van Tocqueville, wereldwijd bekend onder de naam Alexis de Tocqueville, neemt in de intellectuele en politieke geschiedenis van de 19e eeuw een unieke plaats. Geboren op 29 juli 1805 in Parijs in een aristocratische... more
In 2019, together with Raimundas Malašauskas, Johan Pousette, Claire Tancons and Kathryn Weir, we developed a forum about collective practices. We invited 80 participants of different generations active in various regions of the world to... more
The article “Human Rights and Corporate Accountability: Advocating for Corporate Social Responsibility” delves into the critical intersection of human rights corporate accountability and the promotion of corporate social responsibility... more