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Workshop on Transnational Networks Amid Global Crisis and Change
Jackie Smith, Melanie Hughes, Samantha Plummer, and Basak Gemici
September 27-29, 2018 University of Pittsburgh

Workshop on Transnational Networks Amid Global Crisis and Change

The co-organizers are completing the work of assembling two longitudinal datasets of transnational social movement organizations (TSMOs) and networks working to affect global change. These organizations have played significant roles in bringing diverse actors ”including activists from the global South, indigenous peoples, peasants, and LGBTQ activists ”into the global public arena and enhancing their political impacts. They have been linked to movements against the global trade system, rising inequality, environmental degradation, and government austerity. They have been instrumental in defending human rights and promoting equity and justice in the global political and economic order. We will invite a group of researchers to work with our research team on our initial investigations of these new data. Together with a diverse collection of scholars, we will explore what these data tell us about the relationship between transnational activism and processes of global change. Do such organizations enhance diversity in global political spaces? How is the mobilization of less powerful political actors related to broader political processes and conflicts? How have changes in the relative power of key states impacted the networks of social movement actors and their relationships with the inter-state system? To help us address these and other questions, we will identify and invite promising young researchers and scholars to participate in a workshop at the University of Pittsburgh in the fall of 2018. We will produce an edited volume based on the conference papers and will use the opportunity to work with this small group of scholars to advance our work to prepare the datasets for publication in the World Historical Dataverse for use by other researchers.

Documents

• Workshop Schedule

Codebooks

Data files

• Dropbox link for Data, tracking document, and Workshop Papers

Working Papers & Conference Papers

• Smith, Jackie, Melanie M. Hughes, and Samantha Plummer. 2017. "Transnational Social Movements, Networks, & Changing World Politics." University of Pittsburgh. Paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Meeting, February 22-25, Baltimore, Maryland.
• Smith, Jackie, Melanie M. Hughes, and Samantha Plummer. 2017. "Inter-Organizational Relations in Transnational Environmental and Women's Activism: Multilateralists, Pragmatists, and Isolationists." Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, August 12-15, Montreal, Canada.

Published Research

• Jackie Smith, Basak Gemici, Samantha Plummer and Melanie Hughes. 2018. Transnational Social Movement Organizations and Counter-Hegemonic Struggles Today Journal of World-Systems Research 24(2):372-403.
• Samantha Plummer, Jackie Smith, and Melanie Hughes. |Transnational Human Rights Organizing and Global Health Governance, 1963-2013. In Global Health Governance 12(1):62-74 Spring 2018
• Hughes, Melanie M., Pamela Paxton, Sharon Quinsaat, and Nicholas Reith. Forthcoming. "Does the Global North Still Dominate the International Women's Movement? A Network Analysis of Women's International Nongovernmental Organizations, 1978-2008." Mobilization.
• Smith, Jackie, Samantha Plummer, and Melanie Hughes. 2017. "Transnational Social Movements and Changing Organizational Fields in the Late Twentieth and Early 21st Centuries." Global Networks 17(1):3-22. DOI:10.1111/glob.12152.
• Reith, Nicholas, Pamela Paxton, and Melanie M. Hughes. 2016. "Building Cross-National, Longitudinal Datasets: Issues and Strategies for Implementation." International Journal of Sociology 46(1):21-41. DOI:10.1080/00207659.2016.1130416.
• Hughes, Melanie M., Mona Lena Krook, and Pamela Paxton. 2015. "Transnational Women's Activism and the Global Diffusion of Gender Quotas." International Studies Quarterly 59(2):357-372. DOI:10.1111/isqu.12190.
• Paxton, Pamela, Melanie M. Hughes, and Nicholas Reith. 2015. "Extending the International Nongovernmental Country Score, 1950-2008." Sociological Science 2:287-307. DOI:10.15195/v2.a14.
• Smith, Jackie and Dawn Wiest. 2012. Social Movements in the World-System: The Politics of Crisis and Transformation. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
• Hughes, Melanie M., Lindsey Peterson, Jill Ann Harrison, and Pamela Paxton. 2009. "Power and Relation in the World Polity: The INGO Network Country Score, 1978-1998." Social Forces 87(4):1712-1742. DOI:10.1353/sof.0.0217,
• Hughes, Melanie M. 2009. Armed Conflict, International Linkages, and Women's Parliamentary Representation in Developing Nations. Social Problems 56(1):174-204. DOI:10.1525/sp.2009.56.1.174.
• Wiest, Dawn. 2007. "A Story of Two Transnationalisms: Global Salafi Jihad and Transnational Human Rights Mobilization in the Middle East and North Africa." Mobilization 12(2):137-60.
• Wiest, Dawn and Jackie Smith. 2007. "Explaining Participation in Regional Transnational Social Movement Organizations." International Journal of Comparative Sociology 48(1-2):137-66.
• Wiest, Dawn and Jackie Smith. 2006. "Regional Institutional Contexts and Patterns of Transnational Social Movement Organization." Korea Observer 37(1):93-128.
• Wiest, Dawn. 2006. "Institutional Structure and the Geography of Collaboration in Transnational Social Movement Networks and Coalitions." Doctoral Dissertation, Sociology, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY.
• Smith, Jackie. 2005. "Building Bridges or Building Walls? Explaining Regionalization among Transnational Social Movement Organizations." Mobilization 10(2):251-270
• Smith, Jackie. 2005. "Transnational Social Movement Organizations." Pp. 226-48 in Social Movements and Organizational Theory, edited by G. Davis, D. McAdam, W. R. Scott and M. Zald. New York: Cambridge University Press
• Smith, Jackie. 2004. "Exploring Connections between Global Integration and Political Mobilization." Journal of World-Systems Research 10(1):255-85.