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Power and Transnational Activism

Author : Thomas Olesen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136864997
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Power and Transnational Activism written by Thomas Olesen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on global activism and uses a power perspective to provide an in-depth and coherent analysis of both the possibilities and limitations of global activism. Bringing together scholars from IR, sociology, and political science, this book offers new and critical insights on global activism and power. It features case studies on the following social and political issues: China and Tibet, HIV/AIDS, climate change, child labour, the WTO, women and the UN, the global public sphere, regional integration, national power, world social forums, policing, media power and global civil society. It will be of interest to students and scholars of globalization, global sociology and international politics.

Transnational Protest and Global Activism

Author : Donatella Della Porta
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742535879
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Protest and Global Activism written by Donatella Della Porta and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sociologists and political scientists from Europe and the US explore how global issues are transforming local and national activism and the interactions between local, national, and supranational movement organizations. In addition to describing recent events, they adapt concepts and hypotheses developed in the social movement literature of the pas

Transnational Activism in Asia

Author : Nicola Piper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113437741X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Activism in Asia written by Nicola Piper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers new perspectives on transnational activism with a focus on Asia. The chapters and case studies examine macro and micro aspects of power and how cross-border activities of civil society groups relate to problems of democracy.

The New Transnational Activism

Author : Sidney Tarrow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521851305
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book The New Transnational Activism written by Sidney Tarrow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2005 book argues that individuals move into transnational activism which links domestic to international politics.

Unexpected Power

Author : Shareen Hertel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150172729X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Unexpected Power written by Shareen Hertel and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. human rights advocacy has long focused on civil and political rights-issues such as torture, censorship, and lack of democratic freedoms abroad. In the 1990s a series of high-profile anti-sweatshop and fair-trade campaigns shifted the spotlight to labor issues. But as human rights activists in the United States and elsewhere take up the cause of economic exploitation, they don't always agree on the nature of the problem, or on what should be done to address it. What is more, they do not necessarily have the final say: in many cases, the focus of a campaign will shift when local activists make their voices heard or when the imported aims of nongovernmental organizations conflict with the goals of the people they intend to help. Shareen Hertel explores the dramatic negotiations within cross-border human rights campaigns. Activists on the receiving end of such campaigns do much more than seek the help of powerful allies beyond their borders. They often also challenge outsiders' understandings of basic human rights—in some cases, directly (by "blocking" campaigns intended to help them) and in other cases, indirectly (by employing "backdoor moves" aimed at more subtly introducing new human rights norms). Hertel looks closely at struggles for human rights in two contexts: Bangladesh, where activists challenged the understanding of human rights central to an international campaign to prevent child labor in that country, and Mexico, where activists sought to broaden the scope of efforts to prevent discrimination against pregnant workers in their country. Hertel connects these unexpected challenges to a new wave of international advocacy, and thereby illuminates democratic struggles in the new global economy.

The Advocacy Trap

Author : Stephen Noakes
Publisher : Alternative Sinology
ISBN 13 : 9781526119476
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book The Advocacy Trap written by Stephen Noakes and published by Alternative Sinology. This book was released on 2018 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asks what happens to transnational civil society actors as a result of their engagement with China, recognising its status and influence as a rising world power. Taking an interactive and processed-based approach, it aims to explain the multiple, divergent pathways or functional forms of advocacy campaigns in China.

Power in Movement

Author : Sidney G. Tarrow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521198905
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (989 download)

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Download or read book Power in Movement written by Sidney G. Tarrow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social movements have an elusive power but one that is altogether real. From the French and American revolutions to the post-Soviet, ethnic, and terrorist movements of today, contentious politics exercises a fleeting but powerful influence on politics, society, and international relations. This study surveys the modern history of the modern social movements in the West and their diffusion to the global South through war, colonialism, and diffusion, and it puts forward a theory to explain its cyclical surges and declines. It offers an interpretation of the power of movements that emphasizes effects on the lives of militants, policy reforms, political institutions, and cultural change. The book focuses on the rise and fall of social movements as part of contentious politics in general and as the outcome of changes in political opportunities and constraints, state strategy, the new media of communication, and transnational diffusion.

Transnational Activism in the UN and the EU

Author : Jutta Joachim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134063881
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Activism in the UN and the EU written by Jutta Joachim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the United Nations and the European Union across a range of different issue areas, this volume examines how the choice of venue and institution affects the strategies of NGOs. Despite significant differences with respect to their scope, membership as well as their institutional rules, the authors find that the UN and the EU have surprisingly similar effects on civil society organizations and regulate access in such a way that it significantly constrains the agency of NGOs. Highlights include: A comprehensive outline of the volume’s main research questions, situated within the existing literature on the topic Eight case studies of NGO involvement in the UN and the EU across a range of different areas, including human rights, the environment, socio-economic and security issues A theoretically grounded summary of case study findings, challenging the findings of previous studies regarding the power of NGOs A discussion of the finding’s implications for the broader literature, as well as for studies relating to the EU and the UN in particular Transnational Activism in the UN and the EU will be of interest to students and scholars of International Relations, European Studies, and Global Politics. Jutta Joachim is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Hannover, Germany. Birgit Locher is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Global Activism

Author : Ruth Reitan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136611010
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Global Activism written by Ruth Reitan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study traces the transnationalization of activist networks, analyzing their changing compositions and characters and examining the roles played by the World Social Forum in this process. Comparing four of the largest global networks targeting the 'neoliberal triumvirate' of the World Bank, the IMF and the World Trade Organization: the Jubilee anti-debt campaigners Via Campesina peasant farmers Our World Is Not For Sale and the anarchistic Peoples’ Global Action. Written by a scholar-activist, the book highlights that despite their diversity, these collective actors follow a similar globalizing path and that networks in which solidarity is based on a shared identity perceived as threatened by neoliberal change are gaining strength. Social forums are depicted as a fertile ground to strengthen networks and a common ground for cooperative action among them, but also a battleground over the future of the forum process, the global anti-neoliberal struggle, and 'other possible worlds' in the making. Global Activism will appeal to students and scholars interested in globalization, international relations, IPE and social movements.

Power in Movement

Author : Sidney Tarrow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521629478
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book Power in Movement written by Sidney Tarrow and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike political or economic institutions, social movements have an elusive power, but one that is no less real. From the French and American revolutions through the democratic and workers' movements of the nineteenth century to the totalitarian movements of today, movements exercise a fleeting but powerful influence on politics and society. This study surveys the history of the social movement, puts forward a theory of collective action to explain its surges and declines, and offers an interpretation of the power of movement that emphasises its effects on personal lives, policy reforms and political culture. While covering cultural, organisational and personal sources of movements' power, the book emphasises the rise and fall of social movements as part of political struggle and as the outcome of changes in political opportunity structure.

Insurgent Encounters

Author : Jeffrey S. Juris
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822353628
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Insurgent Encounters written by Jeffrey S. Juris and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insurgent Encounters illuminates the dynamics of contemporary transnational social movements, including those advocating for women and indigenous groups, environmental justice, and alternative—cooperative rather than exploitative—forms of globalization. The contributors are politically engaged scholars working within the social movements they analyze. Their essays are both models of and arguments for activist ethnography. They demonstrate that such a methodology has the potential to reveal empirical issues and generate theoretical insights beyond the reach of traditional social-movement research methods. Activist ethnographers not only produce new understandings of contemporary forms of collective action, but also seek to contribute to struggles for social change. The editors suggest networks and spaces of encounter as the most useful conceptual rubrics for understanding shape-shifting social movements using digital and online technologies to produce innovative forms of political organization across local, regional, national, and transnational scales. A major rethinking of the practice and purpose of ethnography, Insurgent Encounters challenges dominant understandings of social transformation, political possibility, knowledge production, and the relation between intellectual labor and sociopolitical activism. Contributors. Giuseppe Caruso, Maribel Casas-Cortés, Janet Conway, Stéphane Couture, Vinci Daro, Manisha Desai, Sylvia Escárcega, David Hess, Jeffrey S. Juris, Alex Khasnabish, Lorenzo Mosca, Michal Osterweil, Geoffrey Pleyers, Dana E. Powell, Paul Routledge, M. K. Sterpka, Tish Stringer

Conflicted Commitments

Author : Gada Mahrouse
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773592091
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Conflicted Commitments written by Gada Mahrouse and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflicted Commitments analyzes a form of non-violent, direct transnational solidarity in which activists from the global North travel to support and protect people in the global South. Gada Mahrouse contends that this brand of activism is a compelling site of racialized power relations and is highly instructive for a nuanced understanding of systems of race. Mahrouse argues that the individuals who partake in this form of activism consciously deploy their white, western privilege to offer support and protection to those facing threats of violence. Moreover, given that this type of activism asserts itself as an exemplary form of anti-racist commitment, it illustrates that well-meaning practices can inadvertently reproduce racialized power structures that are embedded in imperial and colonial legacies. Mahrouse focuses on Palestine and Iraq in the post-9/11 era to contemplate the contemporary challenges that these regions pose for solidarity activism. By exploring how individual activists manage and negotiate their dominant positioning in these encounters, Mahrouse reflects more broadly on the ethics of social justice strategies in an increasingly transnational world. A detailed study of the racialized complexities and contradictions inherent in transnational solidarity activism, Conflicted Commitments makes a significant contribution to critical race and feminist studies.

The advocacy trap

Author : Stephen Noakes
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526119498
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book The advocacy trap written by Stephen Noakes and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does China’s rise mean for transnational civil society? What happens when global activist networks engage a powerful and norm-resistant new hegemon? This book combines detailed ethnographic research with cross-case comparisons to identify key factors underpinning variation in the results and processes of advocacy on a range of issues affecting both China and the world, including global warming, intellectual property rights, HIV/AIDS treatment, the use of capital punishment, suppression of the Falun Gong religious movement, and Tibetan independence. Built on a unique blend of comparative and international theory, it advances the notion of “advocacy drift”—a process whereby the objectives and principled beliefs of activists are transformed through interaction with the Chinese state. The book offers a timely reassessment of transnational civil society, including its power to persuade and to leverage the policies of national governments.

The Power of the Internet in China

Author : Guobin Yang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231513143
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Power of the Internet in China written by Guobin Yang and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-26 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Guobin Yang's pioneering study maps an innovative range of contentious forms and practices linked to Chinese cyberspace, delineating a nuanced and dynamic image of the Chinese Internet as an arena for creativity, community, conflict, and control. Like many other contemporary protest forms in China and the world, Yang argues, Chinese online activism derives its methods and vitality from multiple and intersecting forces, and state efforts to constrain it have only led to more creative acts of subversion. Transnationalism and the tradition of protest in China's incipient civil society provide cultural and social resources to online activism. Even Internet businesses have encouraged contentious activities, generating an unusual synergy between commerce and activism. Yang's book weaves these strands together to create a vivid story of immense social change, indicating a new era of informational politics.

The Power of Human Rights

Author : Thomas Risse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521658829
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (588 download)

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Download or read book The Power of Human Rights written by Thomas Risse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-05 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Tunisia and Morocco.

Power and Transnational Activism

Author : Thomas Olesen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136865004
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Power and Transnational Activism written by Thomas Olesen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on global activism and uses a power perspective to provide an in-depth and coherent analysis of both the possibilities and limitations of global activism. Bringing together scholars from IR, sociology, and political science, this book offers new and critical insights on global activism and power. It features case studies on the following social and political issues: China and Tibet, HIV/AIDS, climate change, child labour, the WTO, women and the UN, the global public sphere, regional integration, national power, world social forums, policing, media power and global civil society. It will be of interest to students and scholars of globalization, global sociology and international politics.

Transnational LGBT Activism and UK-Based NGOs

Author : Matthew Farmer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030453774
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Transnational LGBT Activism and UK-Based NGOs written by Matthew Farmer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-19 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes an analysis of UK-based non-governmental organisations engaged in transnational lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) activism, within a broader recognition of the complexities that British colonial legacies perpetuate in contemporary international relations. From this analysis, the book suggests that greater engagement with intersectional and decolonial approaches to transnational activism would allow for a more transformative solidarity that challenges the broader impacts of coloniality on LGBT people’s lives globally. Case studies are used to explore UK actors’ participation in the complexities of contemporary transnational LGBT activism, including activist responses to developments in Brunei between 2014 and 2019, and the use of LGBT aid conditionality by Western governments. Activist engagements with legacies of British colonialism are also explored, including a focus on ‘sodomy laws’ and the Commonwealth, as well as the challenges faced by LGBT people seeking asylum in the UK.