Transnational Contention

Abstract

Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies European Forum The European Forum was set up by the High Council of the EU1 in 1992 with the mission of bringing together at the Institute for a given academic year a group of experts, under the supervision of annual scientific director(s), for researching a specific topic primarily of a comparative and interdisciplinary nature.

Community mining consultations in Latin America (2002–2012): The contested emergence of a hybrid institution for participation

“…In Guatemala, the great multiplication of mining consultations is partially grounded in the national and international repercussion of Sipakapa's experience and in the networks created in western Guatemala. This shows the relational character of diffusion (Tarrow and McAdam, 2005), since consultation experiences and mining related information have been shared through interpersonal contacts or associational networks in the interaction of social movements, local governments and other social actors (Red Muqui, 2009;Jahncke Benavente and Meza, 2010).…”

Situating the geographies of injustice in democratic theory

“…Fraser tends to underestimate the degree to which a great deal of transnational public mobilisation is both 'rooted' in national contexts and oriented towards addressing both nationally embedded as well as transnational agents (e.g. Appadurai, 2001;Diani, 2005;Sassen, 2006;Stark et al, 2006;Tarrow, 2005). Fraser in fact acknowledges that the two aspects of democratic publics, legitimacy and efficacy, were never actually perfectly aligned, but argues that now the gap between them is becoming ever wider.…”

Methods for Measuring Mechanisms of Contention

“…2 In our joint and individual work, we have tried to put this premise to work (McAdam et al , 2007McAdam and Su 2002;Tarrow and McAdam 2005;Tilly 2007a, b;Tilly and Tarrow 2007). But while we offered sketches of what such an approach might look like, we never made this topic the central focus of our collaborative work.…”

“…37-41). Precisely because the expansion of transnational contention in recent decades has fascinated students of contentious politics, we know much more about upward than downward scale shift (Tarrow and McAdam 2005). Let us illustrate the impact of upward scale shift through examination of a momentous political process that has transformed contentious politics in every democratic and semi-democratic regime.…”