ABSTRACT
The prominence and visibility of transnational forms of organizing is a defining feature of contemporary contentious politics. There are significant histories of transnational forms of contention and organizing, and they are by no means new despite being frequently depicted as such. The growing prominence and interest in such transnational forms of organizing has unsettled some of the key ways of understanding the geographies of contentious politics. This has opened up a challenge to the ways that both social movement theory and political geography have been structured by an implicit assumption that the national arena is the most obvious container for political activity.
