ABSTRACT
Transregional and transnational mobilizations are nothing new. It suffices to mention the missionary, anti-slave, peace, working-class, women’s or even the scout movement. This chapter recounts a variety of mainly qualitative methods applied in studying contemporary transregional movements without claiming to be exhaustive. The presentation follows social movement chronology and includes several world regions. The anti-apartheid movement constituted the first post-Second World War transnational movement subject to systematic research. It took Swedish local groups and national anti-apartheid campaigns as a point of departure but moved on to the movement’s epicentre, the United Kingdom. The fair trade (FT) movement constituted another early transcontinental solidarity movement. Valerio Verrea's research showed that FT was split between the original FT and the relatively new FT-Label movement. The Helsinki Accords of 1975 marked the onset of a new, transcontinental human rights (HR) era. By the mid-1980s, politicians, social movements, and international organizations heralded the triumphal global march of HR.
