Jackie Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621095 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jackie Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jackie |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4808-0391 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 666 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1921 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Human rights globalization: How local and global actions institutionalize human rights
We introduce this special issue with an elaboration of the concept of human rights globalization as a dynamic process that involves local and global action by civil society and other actors to strengthen governments' accountability to global human rights norms and standards. This process challenges economic globalization that prioritizes international trade and financialization over human rights. Recent decades have seen growing movements of acti…
Human rights cities and the expanding global toolkit for decolonization and racial justice
Amid a growing white backlash against racial progress that is rolling back voting rights and restraining public discourse and education about the history and legacies of slavery and colonialism, a global "George Floyd effect" has amplified efforts outside the United States to address systemic racism and engage growing numbers of US activists in the UN human rights system. Global institutions provide opportunities for US activists to expose US hum…
Universities and human rights in cities
Human rights globalizaon is, counter-intuively, largely a process of localizaon.We focus on the role of universies in their localies as a way of gaining insight into the complex ways in which they shape human rights outcomes both on and beyond campus.This topic has, to our knowledge, received no explicit scruny in the human rights literature, where the presumpon of academic workers producing and disseminang knowledge in pursuit of jusce-and oen o…
Inter-organizational relations in transnational environmental and women’s activism: Multilateralists, pragmatists, and rejectionists
Recent decades have seen dramatic changes in the ways activists cooperate with and challenge other global actors. Here, we argue that activist organizations’ aims and timing of founding influence their connections to the interstate arena. Drawing from a new dataset, we examine patterns of transnational organizing around women’s rights and environmentalism in 2013. We classify activist groups into three categories based on their inter-organization…
Remembering Immanuel Wallerstein
Immanuel Wallerstein, one of the leading founders and promoters of world-systems analysis, died on August 31, 2019. Given the importance of his scholarship to the Journal of World-Systems Research, we plan to publish in future issues research articles based on conferences and symposia that are now being planned to honor Wallerstein’s work and legacy. In this essay, JWSR founding editor, Christopher Chase-Dunn, is joined by current editor Jackie S…
Making Other Worlds Possible: The Battle in Seattle in World-Historical Context
The protests against neoliberal globalization at the 1999 ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization were significant because they represented the first large-scale resistance gaining wide visibility among a global public.The fact that the WTO ministerial was taking place in "the belly of the beast" increased its visibility and significance.It was far from the first mass protest against globalized capitalism, and it wasn't the most globa…
The Challenges of Organizational Classification: A Research Note
Social movement, civil society, and world polity scholars use counts of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to evaluate important theoretical and empirical claims. To construct these measures, researchers often classify NGOs by their goals and/or domains. However, over time, the ways organizations describe and orient themselves change, blurring boundaries between organizations and complicating measurement. In this research note, we identify meth…
Introduction: The Dynamics and Terrains of Local Democracy and Corporate Power in the 21st Century
Particular to the struggles of today is a renewed and increasingly networked politics of local democracy in opposition to global corporate power. With the five urgent essays in this symposium we bring these politics into a world-systems space, considering specific community conflicts with corporations over water and petro-carbon as part of larger translocal struggles, and taking up broader strategies for asserting democratic control over economic…
Responding to Globalization and Urban Conflict: Human Rights City Initiatives
Expanding globalization and urbanization have intensified the threats to human rights for many vulnerable groups and have restricted resources available to the primary guarantors of these rights—local authorities. Human rights cities initiatives are bottom-up efforts to advance human rights implementation in local contexts. They are emerging around the world in response to the global pressures on cities that intensify urban inequality and conflic…
Transnational Social Movement Organizations and Counter-Hegemonic Struggles Today
World-systems analysts have drawn our attention to the importance of the long-standing worldwide struggles of subaltern groups to defend their livelihoods and address fundamental conflicts of our times. Climate change, financial volatility, and rising inequality are exposing the existential threats the global capitalist system poses to growing numbers—many of whom once enjoyed some of its benefits. These urgent challenges create possibilities for…
Transnational social movements and changing organizational fields in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries
Recent decades have seen dramatic changes in the global political arena, including shifts in geopolitical arrangements, increases in popular mobilization and contestation over the direction of globalization, and efforts by elites to channel or curb popular opposition. We explore how these factors affect changes in global politics. Organizational populations are shaped by ongoing interactions among civil-society, corporate and governmental actors …
Social Movements and Political Moments: Reflections on the Intersections of Global Justice Movements & Occupy Wall Street
Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity
Global Democracy and the World Social Forums
The World Social Forum quickly became the largest political gathering in human history and continues to offer a direct challenge to the extreme inequities of corporate-led globalisation. It has expanded its presence and continues to be an exciting experiment in global and participatory democracy. The book's contributors have participated in World Social Forums around the globe. Recounting dozens of dramatic firsthand experiences, they draw on the…
Counter-hegemonic networks and the transformation of global climate politics: Rethinking movement-state relations
Global financial and ecological crises have fueled the diffusion of ideas and discourses that challenge US hegemony and global capitalism and support the expansion of counterhegemonic alliances between states and social movements. Social movements are calling for rights for Mother Earth and for the development of new measures of well-being, putting forward increasingly credible alternatives to the state-led, market-based approaches to reducing gr…
Internal Affairs: How the Structure of NGOs Transforms Human Rights
Transnational Social Movements
Modern social movements, generally thought of as political, emerged in tandem with modern nation states, as groups of people organized to alternately resist new claims being made by national authorities (such as taxes or military conscription) or to advance their own claims that states provide a variety of public goods and services (such as education, health care, and various forms of financial assistance). Ongoing competition between authorities…
Digitally Enabled Social Change: Activism in the Internet Age by Jennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport
Journal Article Digitally Enabled Social Change: Activism in the Internet Age by Jennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport Get access Digitally Enabled Social Change: Activism in the Internet Age by Jennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press, 2011. 272 pp. $32.00. Jackie Smith Jackie Smith University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 127, Issue 2, Su…
Occupy Pittsburgh and the Challenges of Participatory Democracy
Local manifestations of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) have emerged around the world with enthusiasm for the participatory style used in Zuccotti Park (New York). However, less attention has been paid to earlier lessons about the limits of these techniques for building diverse and sustainable movements. Much of the discussion in the USA ignores how OWS is connected to the long-term and global struggle against corporate-led globalization. Also, models o…
Globalizations Forum on Middle East Protests: Commentary
The ‘Arab spring’ is part of a growing set of challenges to US hegemony and the capitalist world-system. The global economy is fueling the grievances that motivate protests while also providing tools that aid the spread of global protest movements. The global financial and other crises threaten the legitimacy of the entire system, opening up opportunities for challenges by popular groups even in the most authoritarian contexts. As the US and its …
Response to Peter J. Spiro's review of Social Movements for Global Democracy
Peter Spiro's portrayal of my book Beyond Citizenship illustrates the very problem we have in confronting the underlying causes of global crises and envisioning alternatives to existing models of governance. Legal scholar and activist Boaventura de Sousa Santos argued quite cogently in 2007 that the struggle for global social justice is also a struggle for global cognitive justice (“Beyond Abyssal Thinking: From Global Lines to Ecologies of Knowl…
Peace Action: Past, Present and Future ‐ Edited by Glen Harold Stassen and Lawrence S. Wittner
Windows on the Ninth World Social Forum in Belém
This essay provides three windows on the Ninth World Social Forum in Belém, Brazil. We show the multiple ways in which the World Social Forum's plurality and reflexivity challenge traditional dichotomies to build the foundation for a new politics. We argue that the social forum process has developed mechanisms for remaining an open space while simultaneously creating opportunities for unified collective action. We show that the Forum produces com…
Transnational Agrarian Movements: Confronting Globalization edited by Saturnino M. Borras Jr, Marc Edelman and Cristóbal Kay
We are the Ones We have been Waiting for: The U.S. Social Forum in Context
The first United States Social Forum (USSF) took place in Atlanta in the summer of 2007. To report and analyze this intense five-day event, we employ an innovative method, which we refer to as "distributed ethnography." This involves a large, multidisciplinary team of researchers who all contribute to our observational data and participate collaboratively in the writing and editing process. We consider how the U.S. political context shaped the ch…
Images of Protest: Dimensions of Selection Bias in Media Coverage of Washington Demonstrations, 1982 and 1991
Protest is now central to politics in Western democracies, but it is known to citizens mainly through portrayals in the media. Yet the media cover only a small fraction of public protests, raising the possibility of selection bias. We study this problem by comparing police records of demonstrations in Washington, D.C. in 1982 and 1991 with media coverage of the events in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and on three national television ne…
Globalizing Resistance: The Battle of Seattle and the Future of Social Movements
The massive protests at the Third Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization in November 1999 resulted from broad and accelerating changes in global social and political relations. Many protesting groups had been involved in previous struggles for global economic justice that shaped their identities and strategies in Seattle. This study examines the participants, activities, and political context of the "Battle of Seattle." It explores t…
The Uneven Geography of Global Civil Society: National and Global Influences on Transnational Association
Recent decades have seen an explosion of transnational networking and activism, but participation varies widely around the globe. Using negative binomial regression, we explore how national and global political and economic factors shape this “uneven geography ” of participation in transnational social movement organizations (TSMOs). Contrary to assumptions in popular discourse, we find a continued importance of the state and limited importance o…
Occupy Pittsburgh and the Challenges of Participatory Democracy
Local manifestations of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) have emerged around the world with enthusiasm for the participatory style used in Zuccotti Park (New York). However, less attention has been paid to earlier lessons about the limits of these techniques for building diverse and sustainable movements. Much of the discussion in the USA ignores how OWS is connected to the long-term and global struggle against corporate-led globalization. Also, models o…
Bridging Global Divides: Strategic Framing and Solidarity in Transnational Social Movement Organizations
A growing body of research has revealed a rapid expansion in transnational organizing and activism, but we know relatively little about the qualitative changes these transnational ties represent. Using surveys of transnational social movement organizations (TSMOs) and additional case study material, this paper examines the extent to which these organizations have been able to articulate strategic frames that motivate global level organizing and c…
Social Movements for Global Democracy
Globalization from Below: Transnational Activists and Protest Networks
Exploring Connections Between Global Integration and Political Mobilization
With the end of the Cold War, military security issues declined on the international agenda as environmental, economic, and social issues rose. As superpower con?ict faded from the international agenda, space was created for new attempts at multilateral problem-solving. How have these changes a?ected the prospects for transnational organizing? Using data from the Yearbook of International Associations this paper explores changes in the size, issu…
Building Bridges or Building Walls? Explaining Regionalization Among Transnational Social Movement Organizations
Before the mid-1980s, most transnational social movement organizations (TSMOs) organized across the North-South divide. However, since the mid-1980s data show that more TSMOs are organized exclusively within either the global North or South. To explain this pattern, I analyze ties between regionally organized TSMOs and other nongovernmental organizations. Groups in the global South were more likely than their Northern counterparts to maintain cro…
Global Civil Society: Transnational Social Movement Organizations and Social Capital
The growth of international political and economic institutions has both facilitated and demanded cooperation among social change activists from different countries, contributing to the rapid expansion of transnationally organized social movements. But to what extent do these increasingly visible movements manifest a "global civil society"? Do transnational social movement organizations (TSMOs) help cultivate the social capital relevant to a poli…
Transnational Social Movement Organizations and Counter-Hegemonic Struggles Today
World-systems analysts have drawn our attention to the importance of the long-standing worldwide struggles of subaltern groups to defend their livelihoods and address fundamental conflicts of our times. Climate change, financial volatility, and rising inequality are exposing the existential threats the global capitalist system poses to growing numbers—many of whom once enjoyed some of its benefits. These urgent challenges create possibilities for…
We are the Ones We have been Waiting for: The U.S. Social Forum in Context
The first United States Social Forum (USSF) took place in Atlanta in the summer of 2007. To report and analyze this intense five-day event, we employ an innovative method, which we refer to as "distributed ethnography." This involves a large, multidisciplinary team of researchers who all contribute to our observational data and participate collaboratively in the writing and editing process. We consider how the U.S. political context shaped the ch…
Explaining Participation in Regional Transnational Social Movement Organizations
Since the late 1980s, governments have focused intensely on formalizing political and economic relationships within regions. There has also been a concurrent rise in transnational, regional level organizing among social movement activists globally, suggesting the regionalization of `global civil society.' However, opportunities for participation in transnational associations vary widely across countries. In this article, we examine the influence …
The World Social Forum and the challenges of global democracy
Protests against economic globalization helped give birth to the World Social Forum (WSF) as a space for civil society groups to coordinate actions and articulate shared visions for global change. Since 2001 the WSF has brought together hundreds of thousands of activists from all parts of the world. But creating an inclusive political space that is also effective at generating unified action has proved challenging. In this article I explore the c…
Transnational social movement organisations in the global political arena
The post-Cold War period has been a time of rapid change in the international system. One major shift is a dramatic increase in the demands placed upon the United Nations. This increased reliance on the UN suggests that there may be a shift in opportunities for this and other international institutions to have a greater effect on the dynamics of global politics than was possible under the bi-polar system of the past. What are the implications of …
Counter-hegemonic networks and the transformation of global climate politics: Rethinking movement-state relations
Global financial and ecological crises have fueled the diffusion of ideas and discourses that challenge US hegemony and global capitalism and support the expansion of counterhegemonic alliances between states and social movements. Social movements are calling for rights for Mother Earth and for the development of new measures of well-being, putting forward increasingly credible alternatives to the state-led, market-based approaches to reducing gr…
Inter-organizational relations in transnational environmental and women’s activism: Multilateralists, pragmatists, and rejectionists
Recent decades have seen dramatic changes in the ways activists cooperate with and challenge other global actors. Here, we argue that activist organizations’ aims and timing of founding influence their connections to the interstate arena. Drawing from a new dataset, we examine patterns of transnational organizing around women’s rights and environmentalism in 2013. We classify activist groups into three categories based on their inter-organization…
Germany's Foreign Indebtedness
Responding to Globalization and Urban Conflict: Human Rights City Initiatives
Expanding globalization and urbanization have intensified the threats to human rights for many vulnerable groups and have restricted resources available to the primary guarantors of these rights—local authorities. Human rights cities initiatives are bottom-up efforts to advance human rights implementation in local contexts. They are emerging around the world in response to the global pressures on cities that intensify urban inequality and conflic…
Political process and the 1989 Chinese student movement
This article analyzes the 1989 Chinese student movement in Beijing using the political process model that was used by Doug McAdam (1982) in his study of the U.S. civil rights movement. Discussing McAdam's three main variables—the structure of political opportunities, indigenous organizational strength, and cognitive liberation processes—as they relate to the 1989 Chinese context, the authors present a cross‐national application of the model. The …
Transnational social movements and changing organizational fields in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries
Recent decades have seen dramatic changes in the global political arena, including shifts in geopolitical arrangements, increases in popular mobilization and contestation over the direction of globalization, and efforts by elites to channel or curb popular opposition. We explore how these factors affect changes in global politics. Organizational populations are shaped by ongoing interactions among civil-society, corporate and governmental actors …
Globalizations Forum on Middle East Protests: Commentary
The ‘Arab spring’ is part of a growing set of challenges to US hegemony and the capitalist world-system. The global economy is fueling the grievances that motivate protests while also providing tools that aid the spread of global protest movements. The global financial and other crises threaten the legitimacy of the entire system, opening up opportunities for challenges by popular groups even in the most authoritarian contexts. As the US and its …
Emancipating Sociology: Postmodernism and Mainstream Sociological Practice
Journal Article Emancipating Sociology: Postmodernism and Mainstream Sociological Practice Get access Joel Smith Joel Smith Duke University Direct correspondence to Joel Smith, Department of Sociology, Duke University, Durham, NC. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 74, Issue 1, September 1995, Pages 53–79, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/74.1.53 Published: 01 September 1995
Human rights globalization: How local and global actions institutionalize human rights
We introduce this special issue with an elaboration of the concept of human rights globalization as a dynamic process that involves local and global action by civil society and other actors to strengthen governments' accountability to global human rights norms and standards. This process challenges economic globalization that prioritizes international trade and financialization over human rights. Recent decades have seen growing movements of acti…
Remembering Immanuel Wallerstein
Immanuel Wallerstein, one of the leading founders and promoters of world-systems analysis, died on August 31, 2019. Given the importance of his scholarship to the Journal of World-Systems Research, we plan to publish in future issues research articles based on conferences and symposia that are now being planned to honor Wallerstein’s work and legacy. In this essay, JWSR founding editor, Christopher Chase-Dunn, is joined by current editor Jackie S…
South African Currency
The Profits of Speculators
Some Causes of the Present Stagnation of British Trade
Lectures on Political Economy
Economic Nationalism and International Trade
Germany's Foreign Indebtedness
Political process and the 1989 Chinese student movement
This article analyzes the 1989 Chinese student movement in Beijing using the political process model that was used by Doug McAdam (1982) in his study of the U.S. civil rights movement. Discussing McAdam's three main variables—the structure of political opportunities, indigenous organizational strength, and cognitive liberation processes—as they relate to the 1989 Chinese context, the authors present a cross‐national application of the model. The …
The 1989 Chinese Student Movement: Lessons for Nonviolent Activists
The 1989 Chinese student movement holds many lessons regarding the use of nonviolent action as a mechanism for social change. Basic factors that contributed to the progression and outcomes of the movement were the structure of political opportunities, student organization, and protest tactics. Drawing primarily from Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports — China from April, May, and early June of 1989, the author has analyzed the eve…
Frame or be framed
The Peace Movement and the Formulation of U.S. Foreign Policy
Recent research on social movements emphasizes the importance of the political opportunity structure (POS) for movement development and impact. The POS for the peace movement, which is a contender in the foreign policy arena, is much more limited than it is for social movements working for changes in domestic policies. In this essay, the authors, both of whom are social scientists and peace activists, analyze the POS for the peace movement, focus…
Organizing global action
The increase in global interdependence has fueled the need for multilateral problem‐solving efforts. Although the Cold War temporarily obstrvicted such efforts, its demise has paved the way for a renewed focus on international institutions. If international institutions continue to play a stronger role in global problem solving (and this is likely), it will be increasingly important for actors seeking political change to develop strategies that a…
Transnational social movement organisations in the global political arena
The post-Cold War period has been a time of rapid change in the international system. One major shift is a dramatic increase in the demands placed upon the United Nations. This increased reliance on the UN suggests that there may be a shift in opportunities for this and other international institutions to have a greater effect on the dynamics of global politics than was possible under the bi-polar system of the past. What are the implications of …
Organizing for Peace: Neutrality, the Test Ban, and the Freeze
A sociological analysis of three crucial episodes in the history of the peace movement in the United States. This study features the Emergency Peace Campaign (1936-1937); the Atomic Test Ban Campaign (1957-1963); and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign (1979-1986)
Emancipating Sociology: Postmodernism and Mainstream Sociological Practice
Journal Article Emancipating Sociology: Postmodernism and Mainstream Sociological Practice Get access Joel Smith Joel Smith Duke University Direct correspondence to Joel Smith, Department of Sociology, Duke University, Durham, NC. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 74, Issue 1, September 1995, Pages 53–79, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/74.1.53 Published: 01 September 1995
Accessing public, media, electoral, and governmental agendas
Social movements are involved in struggles over meaning as they attempt to influence public policy. An essential task in these struggles is to frame social problems and injustices in a way that convinces a wide and diverse audience of the necessity for and utility of collective attempts to redress them. Movement frames typically embody two essential components: the diagnostic element, or the definition of the problem and its source; and the progn…
Images of Protest: Dimensions of Selection Bias in Media Coverage of Washington Demonstrations, 1982 and 1991
Protest is now central to politics in Western democracies, but it is known to citizens mainly through portrayals in the media. Yet the media cover only a small fraction of public protests, raising the possibility of selection bias. We study this problem by comparing police records of demonstrations in Washington, D.C. in 1982 and 1991 with media coverage of the events in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and on three national television ne…
Transnational social movements and global politics: Solidarity Beyond the State
Transnational Social Movements and Global Social Politics examines a cast of global actors left out of the traditional studies of international politics. It generates a theoretically informed view of the relationships between an emerging global civil society - partly manifested in transnational social movements - and international political institutions. This book consists of fifteen essays, all written by experts in the field. The first three pa…
Global Civil Society: Transnational Social Movement Organizations and Social Capital
The growth of international political and economic institutions has both facilitated and demanded cooperation among social change activists from different countries, contributing to the rapid expansion of transnationally organized social movements. But to what extent do these increasingly visible movements manifest a "global civil society"? Do transnational social movement organizations (TSMOs) help cultivate the social capital relevant to a poli…
Constructing World Culture: International Nongovernmental Organizations Since 1875
Globalizing Resistance: The Battle of Seattle and the Future of Social Movements
The massive protests at the Third Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization in November 1999 resulted from broad and accelerating changes in global social and political relations. Many protesting groups had been involved in previous struggles for global economic justice that shaped their identities and strategies in Seattle. This study examines the participants, activities, and political context of the "Battle of Seattle." It explores t…
Introduction to Special Issue: Globalization and Resistance
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jackie Smith; Introduction to Special Issue: Globalization and Resistance. Mobilization: An International Quarterly 1 March 2001; 6 (1): i–vii. doi: https://doi.org/10.17813/maiq.6.1.j1520v18518376j7 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) …
Globalization and Resistance: Transnational Dimensions of Social Movements
Globalization and Resistancebrings together cutting-edge theory and research about how global economics and politics alter the way ordinary people engage in contentious political action. The cases range from nineteenth-century Irish immigrant networks, to protests against World Bank projects in the Amazon, to contemporary transnational organizing for the environment, to the "battle of Seattle." The volume illuminates the reciprocal effects betwee…
Bridging Global Divides: Strategic Framing and Solidarity in Transnational Social Movement Organizations
A growing body of research has revealed a rapid expansion in transnational organizing and activism, but we know relatively little about the qualitative changes these transnational ties represent. Using surveys of transnational social movement organizations (TSMOs) and additional case study material, this paper examines the extent to which these organizations have been able to articulate strategic frames that motivate global level organizing and c…
Exploring Connections Between Global Integration and Political Mobilization
With the end of the Cold War, military security issues declined on the international agenda as environmental, economic, and social issues rose. As superpower con?ict faded from the international agenda, space was created for new attempts at multilateral problem-solving. How have these changes a?ected the prospects for transnational organizing? Using data from the Yearbook of International Associations this paper explores changes in the size, issu…
The World Social Forum and the challenges of global democracy
Protests against economic globalization helped give birth to the World Social Forum (WSF) as a space for civil society groups to coordinate actions and articulate shared visions for global change. Since 2001 the WSF has brought together hundreds of thousands of activists from all parts of the world. But creating an inclusive political space that is also effective at generating unified action has proved challenging. In this article I explore the c…
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