The New Transnational Activism (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)

The New Transnational Activism shows how even the most prosaic activities - like immigrants bringing remittances back to their families - 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. Understanding the processes that link the local, the national and the international politics is the major undertaking of the book.