Power and transnational activism

✍ Scribed by Thomas Olesen

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 289
Series: Rethinking globalizations, v. 28
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Critiques and appraisals -- 1. Counter-power in the global age: strategies of civil society movements / Ulrich Beck -- 2. Evading the challenge: the limits of global activism / David Chandler -- 3. Coordinated power in contemporary leftist activism / Ruth Reitan -- pt. II The state and the national -- 4. The limits of power and protest: civil society mobilization against North American integration / Jeffrey Ayres -- 5. State power and the control of transnational protests / Herbert Reiter -- 6. China and the limits of transnational human rights activism: from Tiananmen Square to the Beijing Olympics / Caroline Fleay

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 14
Introduction: Power and transnational activist framing......Page 18
Part I: Critiques and appraisals......Page 38
1 Counter-power in the global age: Strategies of civil society movements......Page 40
2 Evading the challenge: The limits of global activism......Page 51
3 Coordinated power in contemporary leftist activism......Page 68
Part II: The state and the national......Page 90
4 The limits of power and protest: Civil society mobilization against North American integration......Page 92
5 State power and the control of transnational protests......Page 108
6 China and the limits of transnational human rights activism: From Tiananmen Square to the Beijing Olympics......Page 128
7 State-led social boundary change: Transnational environmental activism, ‘ecoterrorism’ and September 11......Page 147
8 National origin and transnational activism......Page 168
Part III: Representation and discourse......Page 188
9 The representational power of civil society organizations in global AIDS governance: Advocating for children in global health politics......Page 190
10 Global justice movements and the mass media: Conceptual reflections and empirical findings......Page 207
11 Taming of the shrew?: International women’s NGOs, institutional power and the United Nations......Page 231
12 AID(S) politics and power: A critique of global governance......Page 249
Conclusion: Transnational counter-publics and democracy......Page 269
Index......Page 279

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