Transnational Struggles for Recognition: New Perspectives on Civil Society since the 20th Century / Edition 1

by Dieter Gosewinkel, Dieter Rucht

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785333118
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	11/01/2016
Series:	Studies on Civil Society , #8
Pages:	314
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Dieter Gosewinkel is a professor of history at the Freie Universityät 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).

Dieter Rucht is a professor of sociology at the Freie Universityät 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).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii

The Transnationalization of Struggles for Recognition. An Introduction into a multidisciplinary field of research Dieter Gosewinkel 1

Part I Concepts

Chapter 1 Struggles for Recognition: Bridging Three Separated Spheres of Discourse Dieter Rucht 51

Chapter 2 Understanding Transnational Social Movements: Potentials and Limits of Recognition Theory Volker M. Heins 85

Part II The Cases for Jews and Women

Chapter 3 'By the sacred ties of humanity and common decent'. The Transnationalization of Modern Jewish History and its Discontents Tobias Metzler 103

Chapter 4 Institution Building and Policy Making at the Transnational Level: Challenges in the Early History of the World Jewish Congress Emmanuel Deonna 133

Chapter 5 Jewish, Socialist, Anti-Zionist: The Bund and its Transnational Relations Gertrud Pickhan 161

Chapter 6 Struggles for Recognition and the Concept of Gender in Twentieth-Century Poland Claudia Kraft 184

Chapter 7 The Emergence of an Impossible Movement: Domestic Workers Organize Globally Helen Schwenken 205

Part III Enlarging the Scope

Chapter 8 Peace Movements and the Politics of Recognition in the Cold War Holger Nehring 231

Chapter 9 Recognition across Difference: Conceptual Considerations against an Indian Background Martin Fuchs 252

Chapter 10 Injustice Symbols and Global Solidarity Thomas Olesen 277

Index 293

Editorial Reviews

“The collaboration between scholars from social science and history here has produced the most comprehensive book available on the topic. With its diverse conceptual and methodological approaches, it offers brilliant insights into theories as well as specific case studies.” · Brigitte Geissel, Goethe UniversityFrankfurt

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