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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[edit]

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.

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