Transnational activisms and the global justice movement

Abstract

Transnational activism can be defined as the mobilization around collective claims that are: (a) related to transnational/global issues, (b) formulated by actors located in more than one country, and (c) addressing more than one national government and/or international governmental organization (IGO) or another international actor. While forms of transnational activism have existed since a distant past, economic and political globalization have increased their frequency, as well as attention to them. Within the wider process of global transformations, the global justice movement (GJM) (sometimes called anti-globalization movements), represents a key, though not unique, instance of transnational activism.