The New Transnational Activism shows how even the most prosaic activities can assume broader political meanings when they provide ordinary people with the experience of crossing transnational space. This means that we cannot be satisfied with defining transnational activists through the ways they think. The defining feature of transnationalism in this book is relational, and not cognitive. This emphasis on activism's relational structure means that even as they make transnational claims, transnational activists draw on the resources, the networks, and the opportunities in which they are embedded, and only then-if at all-on more distant transnational links. But we can no more sharply draw a line between domestic and international politics in studying transnational activism than we could ignore local politics in studying its national equivalent. Understanding the processes that link the local, the national and the international is the major undertaking of the book.

• Covers both north and south of transnational politics
• Historical and contemporary perspectives
• Focuses on processes and mechanisms of transnational politics

Part 1. Structure, Process and Actors:

1. Introduction
2. Complex internationalism
3. Rooted cosmopolitans and transnational activists

Part II. The Global in the Local:

4. Global framing
5. Internalizing contention

Part III. Transitional Processes:

6. Diffusion and modularity
7. Shifting the scale of contention

Part IV. The Local in the Global:

8. Externalizing contention
9. Building transnational coalitions

Part V. Transnationalism at Home and Abroad:

10. Transnational impacts on domestic activism
11. Internationalization and transnational activism.