Introduction: transnational women’s activism

Transnational Activism Networks and Gendered Gatekeeping

...............................................................................................................................5 Introduction ...........................................................................................................................7 scales, networks and the Contested spatialities of transnational Activism ..................................8 Beyond the polarized...

Transnational Human Rights and Local Activism: Mapping the Middle

How do transnational ideas such as human rights approaches to violence against women become meaningful in local social settings? How do they move across the gap between a cosmopolitan awareness of human rights and local sociocultural understandings of gender and family? Intermediaries such as community leaders, nongovernmental organization participants, and social movement activists play a crit...

Introduction: Challenges of a Transnational History

External Pressure and Local Mobilization: Transnational Activism and the Emergence of the Chinese Labor Movement

This article elucidates connections between two strategies of transnational social movements—external pressure and local mobilization—and two potential outcomes—paternalism and psychological empowerment. Application of this theoretical framework to the nascent Chinese labor movement indicates that an overreliance on an external-pressure approach results in paternalism, thereby precluding psycho...

Lost in translation: the Canadian access to medicines regime from transnational activism to domestic implementation.

Canada was the first country to implement the WTO Decision of August 30, 2003, authorizing the export of generic drugs manufactured under a compulsory license to developing countries in response to a proposal brought forward by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that now claim dissatisfaction with the Canadian legislation. This empirical case study examines what success means for an NGO camp...