| Popis: |
Under what conditions do individuals participate in protests unrelated to domestic or national issues, and why? These protests have (re)merged globally--take Roe V. Wade protests in the UK, protests against the Ukraine invasion in Chile, and BLM protests in South Korea. This participation is puzzling considering conventional understandings of how (domestic) protest operates to affect (domestic) government behaviour. While scholars have extensively studied transnationally framed protests (e.g., the Occupy movement) and diaspora organizing, this form of protest has been paid little attention. Drawing on the norms and transnational advocacy literatures, I propose whether individuals prefer the US to play a leading role internationally and the extent they consider the protest issue to be domestically important are relevant factors for international protest. To test these explanations, I conduct a survey in the US testing differences in protest attitudes and motivations for a salient domestic issue (US abortion rights) and an analogous international issue (Polish abortion rights). Ultimately, understanding the motivations behind this form of participation will provide insights on how ‘everyday’ citizens conceptualize limits and potentials of their political agency and moral geography both domestically and inter/transnationally, what principles/drivers determine them, and more broadly, how transnational solidarity emerges. |
