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Title Transnational struggles for recognition : new perspectives on civil society since the twentieth century / edited by Dieter Gosewinkel and Dieter Rucht
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 306 pages)
Series Studies on civil society ; volume 8
Studies on civil society ; v.8.
Contents The transnationalization of struggles for recognition : an introduction into a multidisciplinary field of research / Dieter Gosewinkel -- 1. Struggles for recognition : bridging three separated spheres of discourse / Dieter Rucht -- 2. Understanding transnational social movements : potentials and limits of recognition theory / Volker Heins -- 3. "By the sacred ties of humanity and common decent" : the transnationalization of modern Jewish history and its discontents / Tobias Metzler -- 4. Institution building and policy making at the transnational level : challenges in the early history of the World Jewish Congress / Emmanuel Deonna -- 5. Jewish, socialist, antizionist : the Bund and its transnational relations / Gertrud Pickhan -- 6. Struggles for recognition and the concept of gender in twentieth century Poland / Claudia Kraft -- 7. The emergence of an impossible movement : domestic workers organize globally / Helen Schwenken -- 8. Peace movements and the politics of recognition in the Cold War / Holger Nehring -- 9. Recognition across difference : conceptual considerations against an Indian background / Martin Fuchs -- 10. Injustice symbols and global solidarity / Thomas Olesen
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Transnationalism -- History -- 20th century
Social movements -- History -- 20th century
Civil society -- History -- 20th century
Jews -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
Women's rights -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy
Civil society
Jews -- Civil rights
Social movements
Transnationalism
Women's rights
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Gosewinkel, Dieter, 1956- editor.
Rucht, Dieter, editor.
ISBN 9781785333125
1785333127