Beyond the Boomerang From Transnational Advocacy Networks to Transcalar Advocacy in International Politics

Essays that generate a new, empirically grounded theory of transnational advocacy   Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink introduced the boomerang theory in their 1998 book, Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics . It remains one of the first broadly applicable...

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Main Authors: Pallas, Christopher L, Bloodgood, Elizabeth A, Appe, Susan, Chaudhry, Suparna, Cloward, Karisa, Heiss, Andrew, Henry, Laura A, Nguyen, Lan Phuong, Rodrigues, Maria Guadalupe Moog, Scholte, Jan Aart
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa The University of Alabama Press 2022
University of Alabama Press
Edition:1
Series:NGOgraphies : Ethnographic Reflections on NGOs
Subjects:
Developing & Emerging Countries
International Relations
NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations)
Non-governmental organizations
Non-governmental organizations-International cooperation
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Pressure groups
Pressure groups-International cooperation
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Sociology
ISBN:9780817321147, 0817321144, 0817393870, 9780817393878
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  • Contents List of Illustrations Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction. New Transcalar Advocacy and Evolving Patterns of Advocacy beyond the Boomerang Part I. New Challenges: The Changing Architecture of Global Governance 1. Closing Space and the Restructuring of Global Activism: Causes and Consequences of the Global Crackdown on NGOs 2. Opening Up of International Organizations 3. South-South Networks among NGOs 4. Power to the People?: Network Structures and the World Social Forum 5. Power Shifts, Paradigm Shifts, and Transnational Advocacy Ecosystems Part II. Changing Agency and Advocates 6. Downscaling Contestation in Global GMO Governance: Challenging Transnational Actors at the Subnational Level in Mexico 7. Assessing Prospects for Transcalar Activism against the Global Oil Industry Lessons from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 8. Transnational Advocacy and Increasing Local Agency: Vietnamese NGOs in the HIV/AIDS Sector 9. Compliant States, Reluctant Communities?: Transcalar Activism against Gender-Based Violence 10. Changing Climates in Russia and China NGOs: and Transcalar Climate Advocacy in Authoritarian States Conclusion: Toward an Empirically Grounded Theory of Transcalar Advocacy Afterword References Contributors Index Half Title Page, Series Page, Title Page, Copyright Cover