Transnational Struggles for Recognition

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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