Transnational Struggles for Recognition

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).

• List of IllustrationsPART I: CONCEPTSIntroduction: The Transnationalization of Struggles for Recognition. Introduction and Summary of the ContributionsDieter GosewinkelChapter 1. Struggles for Recognition: Bridging Three Separated Spheres of DiscourseDieter RuchtChapter 2. Understanding Transnational Social Movements: Potentials and Limits of Recognition TheoryVolker HeinsPART II: THE CASES FOR WOMEN AND JEWSChapter 3. ‘By the sacred ties of humanity and common decent’. The Transnationalization of Modern Jewish History and its DiscontentsTobias MetzlerChapter 4. Jewish, Socialist, Antizionist: The Bund and its Transnational RelationsGertrud PickhanChapter 5. Institution Building and Policy Making at the Transnational Level: Challenges in the Early History of the World Jewish CongressEmmanuel DeonnaChapter 6. Struggles for Recognition and the Concept of Gender in Twentieth Century PolandClaudia KraftChapter 7. The Emergence of an Impossible Movement: Domestic Workers Organize GloballyHelen SchwenkenPART III: ENLARGING THE SCOPEChapter 8. Peace Movements and the Politics of Recognition in the Cold WarHolger NehringChapter 9. Recognition Across Difference: Conceptual Considerations Against an Indian BackgroundMartin FuchsChapter 10. Injustice Symbols and Global SolidarityThomas OlesenNotes on contributorsBibliographyIndex

“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 University Frankfurt