Transnational Struggles for Recognition

New Perspectives on Civil Society since the 20th Century
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-78533-311-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 610 g

Reihe: Studies on Civil Society

Now more than ever, “recognition” represents a critical concept for social movements, both as a strategic tool and an important policy aim. While the subject’s theoretical and empirical dimensions have usually been studied separately, this interdisciplinary collection focuses on both  to examine the pursuit of recognition against a transnational backdrop. With a special  emphasis on the efforts of women’s and Jewish organizations in 20th-century Europe, the studies collected here show how recognition can be meaningfully understood in historical-analytical terms, while demonstrating the extent to which transnationalization determines a movement’s reach and effectiveness.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gosewinkel, Dieter

Rucht, Dieter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

PART I: CONCEPTS

Introduction: The Transnationalization of Struggles for Recognition. Introduction and Summary of the Contributions

Dieter Gosewinkel

Chapter 1. Struggles for Recognition: Bridging Three Separated Spheres of Discourse

Dieter Rucht

Chapter 2. Understanding Transnational Social Movements: Potentials and Limits of Recognition Theory

Volker Heins

PART II: THE CASES FOR WOMEN AND JEWS

Chapter 3. ‘By the sacred ties of humanity and common decent’. The Transnationalization of Modern Jewish History and its Discontents

Tobias Metzler

Chapter 4. Jewish, Socialist, Antizionist: The Bund and its Transnational Relations

Gertrud Pickhan

Chapter 5. Institution Building and Policy Making at the Transnational Level: Challenges in the Early History of the World Jewish Congress

Emmanuel Deonna

Chapter 6. Struggles for Recognition and the Concept of Gender in Twentieth Century Poland

Claudia Kraft

Chapter 7. The Emergence of an Impossible Movement: Domestic Workers Organize Globally

Helen Schwenken

PART III: ENLARGING THE SCOPE

Chapter 8. Peace Movements and the Politics of Recognition in the Cold War

Holger Nehring

Chapter 9. Recognition Across Difference: Conceptual Considerations Against an Indian Background

Martin Fuchs

Chapter 10. Injustice Symbols and Global Solidarity

Thomas Olesen

Notes on contributors

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gosewinkel, Dieter
Dieter Gosewinkel is a professor of history at the Freie Universität Berlin and co-director of the Center for Global Constitutionalism at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. He has published widely in the field of modern history, legal history, and history of civil society and citizenship, including Zivilgesellschaft – national und transnational with Dieter Rucht, Wolfgang van den Daele and Jürgen Kocka (Edition Sigma, 2004).

Rucht, Dieter
Dieter Rucht is a professor of sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin. Before his retirement he was co-director of a research group on civil society and political mobilization at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. Among his best-known works on the sociology of the public sphere and social movements is Modernisierung und neue soziale Bewegungen. Deutschland, Frankreich und USA im Vergleich (Campus 1994).

Dieter Gosewinkel is a professor of history at the Freie Universität Berlin and co-director of the Center for Global Constitutionalism at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. He has published widely in the field of modern history, legal history, and history of civil society and citizenship, including Zivilgesellschaft – national und transnational with Dieter Rucht, Wolfgang van den Daele and Jürgen Kocka (Edition Sigma, 2004).