The Workshop on Transnational Contention is an interdisciplinary project designed to bring together graduate students and faculty at Cornell University, and major scholars from other universities to discuss various forms of transnational mobilization, their interactions with domestic social movements, and their relations to international institutions.

The workshop will meets weekly to discuss the work of scholars working in various traditions of studying transnational activism.  Additionally, it facilitates the development of a database on different forms of transnational mobilization.

During this spring,  the Workshop will be held on Mondays from 10:00am until noon in 498 Uris Hall. The workshop is coordinated by Professor Sidney Tarrow.   Graduate students wanting to take the workshop for credit should refer to the course syllabus for additional information and requirements.

Over the two-year course of the transnational contention project, the workshop will have the following goals:

• Examining the major theoretical approaches to transnational mobilization, with particular effort at synthesizing the findings of international relations and social movement researchers;
• Investigating the major approaches to transnational mobilization, with special attention to adapting the methods of social movement scholarship to the transnational level;
• Developing several areas of case study research (genetic modification, global warming and the UN, human rights, indigenous groups, and labor transnationalism) and first efforts to synthesize them comparatively;
• The case study findings will be synthesized by the principal investigator and project collaborators into a draft report;
• Organizing a conference of researchers and practitioners to present the findings of the research and put forward recommendations for center-periphery linkages in transnational mobilization.

The Workshop on Transnational Contention is made possible by a grant from the Ford Foundation (Grant # 1015-1265); we appreciate their generous support. Other research related to the Workshop on Transnational Contention and this website is made possible in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation (Grant # 0110788)..

The Workshop office is located within the Government Department's Program for the Study of Contentious Politics office in White Hall, room 202-202A.  The office telephone number is 607-255-8480.

The head of the Transnational Contention project is Sidney Tarrow, Mawell Upson Professor of Government and Professor of Sociology; click here for Prof. Tarrow's curriculum vitae  The research coordinator for the project is Evelyn Bush, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Fordham University.  The program administrator and webmaster for the project is Jennifer Gómez.