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In this paper, my aim is to elaborate disability movement praxis so that transnational struggles for justice over the production of impairment emerging from the Global South can be represented within the transnational frame of disability... more
BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES Course 2018-2019. Carlos III University - Rubén Díez García
A obra de Pablo de Rezende Saturnino Braga, intitulada A rede de ativismo transnacional contra o apartheid na África do Sul, representa um estudo valioso e oportuno. Ela retoma a história do regime racista e analisa a rede de atores... more
The Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions Against Israel campaign or BDS is an international social movement which emerges as a response to the international community’s persistent lack of determination regarding the unsustainable and... more
The 20th century ended with a “bang” in Puerto Rico, producing one of the most powerful and decisive massive demonstrations that the young 21st century first saw. Broadly, this paper will focus on the meaning and repercussions of the... more
This article analyzes political exile as a specific type of international emigration and transnational activism. It claims for a political sociology of exile in dialogue with social movement studies and argues that political exile... more
Over the years, China’s Lancang dam cascade has been the target of widespread contestation arising mainly from an evolving network of dam opponents. Operating across borders, these activists play an increasingly prominent role in the... more
This article considers the experiences of Dutch and Indonesian women in enforced prostitution for the Japanese military during World War Two and the activism of prominent survivors and their supporters from the 1990s. It highlights how... more
On April 14, 2014 Boko Haram, an Islamic militant group, abducted 274 girls from a secondary school in the Chibok region of northeastern Nigeria. The mass abduction of the Chibok girls shook Nigerians and spurred a social movement where... more
While the historical and ongoing symbolic and material inequalities and violence faced by African Americans can be understood as a human rights violation, the efficacy of the human rights framework for addressing racial injustice in the... more
Desde seu nascimento, há quase trinta anos, o Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST) tem se destacado pela perenidade de sua organização e disposição de estimular uma diversidade de vínculos capilares com a sociedade civil o... more
This article explores Amnesty International’s consistent focus on civil and political rights in its campaigning on China. Such a focus has been evident from the beginning of Amnesty International’s attention to human rights in China in... more
The global anti-apartheid movement mobilised millions of people who took part in boycotts and demonstrations. Despite the significance of the anti-apartheid movement, actual research on its nature as a transnational movement has been... more
This article presents a novel analytical framework to study transnational activism in the context of today's international governance architecture. While there is a considerable amount of literature on the emergence, development and... more
In the political realm, our world is currently experiencing both a massive decline in democracies as well as the quality of democratic regimes in all geographical regions, and a rise in pro-democracy social change movements. Meanwhile,... more
This article examines the ways in which various Russian NGOs, involved in litigation at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), have worked to advocate for improved domestic implementation of rulings made by the Court. The paper... more
Los pueblos indígenas se unen cada vez más en redes internacionales para exigir sus derechos, encontrando eco y validación de sus demandas en las Naciones Unidas (ONU) porque los consideran como uno de los grupos más desfavorecidos del... more
Résumé Les cosmopolites enracinés forment aujourd’hui une partie importante des groupes et des individus impliqués dans le militantisme social. S’appuyant sur les changements technologiques, l’intégration économique et les réseaux... more
The purpose of this chapter is to conceptually unfold the broader meaning of the term ‘digital natives’ both by a historical contextualisation of the ‘digital’, as well as by a discussion of the geopolitics of the ‘native’. The... more
Construindo o sindicalismo transnacional: o caso dos trabalhadores na Johnson Controls do México. Cadernos PROLAM/USP, v. 1, p. 129-147, 2013.
This article is concerned with the question of why lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) rights legislation is introduced at higher levels in some cases and less so in others. To address this puzzle, the article analyzes changes in... more
Canada was the first country to implement the WTO Decision of August 30, 2003, authorizing the export of generic drugs manufactured under a compulsory license to developing countries in response to a proposal brought forward by... more
Issues of immigrant political incorporation and transnational politics have drawn increased interest among migration scholars. This paper contributes to debates in this field by examining the role of networks, partnerships and... more
This contribution conceptualizes the politicization of MNCs from outside the processes by which MNCs become confronted with demands for regulation and engage in political contestation with other non-state actors. It compares two global... more
In 1997 Australia changed its human rights policy regarding China from its support for resolutions on China at the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) to the adoption of the bilateral human rights dialogue process. From 1991 to 1997 the... more
Through adopting the bilateral human rights dialogue process in 1997, Australia changed its human rights policy regarding China from public support for resolutions on China at the UN Commission on Human Rights to private annual meetings... more
Drawing on transnational activism literature, this article presents a nuanced understanding of political action and the link between two contexts of struggles – the Philippines and Hong Kong – in order to explain the emergence and... more
By BRINGEL, Breno; MARQUES, Teresa. This article analyzes political exile as a specific type of international emigration and transnational activism. It claims for a political sociology of exile in dialogue with social movement studies... more
Alliances between social movements constitute a vital part of understanding social movement mobilization. However, despite the advantages that come with cross-movement mobilization, the construction and maintenance of alliances remains a... more
Rosalba Icaza Garza INTRODUCCIÓN: SITUÁNDOME #Yamecanse de la mirada colonial del twitter! Escribía el tuit anterior en 2015 desde mi cuenta @icazarosalba, mientras los medios impresos, visuales y virtuales difundían sin parar la... more
As an Introduction to the Debate section that follows, this article develops the concept of ‘Networks of Labour Activism’ (NOLAs) as a distinct, and important, aspect of cross-border, cross-organizational mobilization of workers, trade... more
Sindicalismo em Rede: o papel das Comissões de Fábrica na Mercedes Benz. Política & Trabalho (Online), v. 40, p. 369, 2014
This review chapter looks at different kinds of organizations of and for immigrants that represent in some ways alternatives to the dominant power order. It looks at different kinds of values, activities, compositions, funding, and... more
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