John G. Dale
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816646463
- eISBN:
- 9781452945897
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816646463.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
This book discusses how the Saffron Revolution sustained the hopes and aspirations of the people of modern Myanmar for a free and democratic Burma. However, the majority of Burma experts declared the ...
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This book discusses how the Saffron Revolution sustained the hopes and aspirations of the people of modern Myanmar for a free and democratic Burma. However, the majority of Burma experts declared the pro-democracy movement a failure. The domestic pro-democracy movement which first emerged in 1988 in Burma transformed over the decades into a transnational social movement, resulting in a new model. The Burmese pro-democracy movement built on new transnational networks in order to initiate innovative campaigns, using legal mechanisms to expose how democratic states and multinational corporations were supporting the oppressive regime. The movement, through so-called “transnational legal actions,” created transnational legal spaces and attempted to challenge the neoliberal conceptions of justice and democracy.Less
This book discusses how the Saffron Revolution sustained the hopes and aspirations of the people of modern Myanmar for a free and democratic Burma. However, the majority of Burma experts declared the pro-democracy movement a failure. The domestic pro-democracy movement which first emerged in 1988 in Burma transformed over the decades into a transnational social movement, resulting in a new model. The Burmese pro-democracy movement built on new transnational networks in order to initiate innovative campaigns, using legal mechanisms to expose how democratic states and multinational corporations were supporting the oppressive regime. The movement, through so-called “transnational legal actions,” created transnational legal spaces and attempted to challenge the neoliberal conceptions of justice and democracy.
John G. Dale
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816646463
- eISBN:
- 9781452945897
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816646463.003.0007
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
The book argues that, contrary to the perspective of most scholars, the pre-democracy movement in Burma did not suffer a decline after 1990 and instead reincarnated itself as the Free Burma movement ...
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The book argues that, contrary to the perspective of most scholars, the pre-democracy movement in Burma did not suffer a decline after 1990 and instead reincarnated itself as the Free Burma movement through its transnational legal action. Democracy in Burma will not rely on social movement alone, more powerful international states will certainly play a role in determining Burma’s political course. This concluding chapter presents five important lessons from the transnational legal action of the Free Burma movement: states have the power but not the will to control corporations, transnational discourse provides an alternative to neoliberal globalization, corporations, like governments, may violate human rights, the lack of democracy contributes to authoritarianism, and human rights are part law, part ideology.Less
The book argues that, contrary to the perspective of most scholars, the pre-democracy movement in Burma did not suffer a decline after 1990 and instead reincarnated itself as the Free Burma movement through its transnational legal action. Democracy in Burma will not rely on social movement alone, more powerful international states will certainly play a role in determining Burma’s political course. This concluding chapter presents five important lessons from the transnational legal action of the Free Burma movement: states have the power but not the will to control corporations, transnational discourse provides an alternative to neoliberal globalization, corporations, like governments, may violate human rights, the lack of democracy contributes to authoritarianism, and human rights are part law, part ideology.
Craig Berry
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719084881
- eISBN:
- 9781781701850
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719084881.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
This chapter notes that Oxfam occupies an ostensibly intellectual territory but has been chosen here precisely because it upholds the importance of transnational political action, and because its ...
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This chapter notes that Oxfam occupies an ostensibly intellectual territory but has been chosen here precisely because it upholds the importance of transnational political action, and because its core campaigning focus is on international trade rules. Related to this, Oxfam appears to maintain a stronger commitment to Kantian or cosmopolitan values than other cases. One of this chapter's main concerns is whether it is possible to support, and provide legitimacy for, the contemporary world trade regime without straying into the intellectual territory of neoliberalism.Less
This chapter notes that Oxfam occupies an ostensibly intellectual territory but has been chosen here precisely because it upholds the importance of transnational political action, and because its core campaigning focus is on international trade rules. Related to this, Oxfam appears to maintain a stronger commitment to Kantian or cosmopolitan values than other cases. One of this chapter's main concerns is whether it is possible to support, and provide legitimacy for, the contemporary world trade regime without straying into the intellectual territory of neoliberalism.
Andrew C. Gilbert
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781501750267
- eISBN:
- 9781501750281
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501750267.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, European Cultural Anthropology
This book argues for an ethnographic analysis of international intervention as a series of encounters, focusing on the relations of difference and inequality, and the question of legitimacy that ...
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This book argues for an ethnographic analysis of international intervention as a series of encounters, focusing on the relations of difference and inequality, and the question of legitimacy that permeate such encounters. The book discusses the transformations that happen in everyday engagements between intervention agents and their target populations, and also identifies key instabilities that emerge out of such engagements. It highlights the struggles, entanglements and inter-dependencies between and among foreign agents, and the people of Bosnia-Herzegovina that channel and shape intervention and how it unfolds. Drawing upon nearly two years of fieldwork studying in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina, the book's analysis identifies previously overlooked sites, processes, and effects of international intervention, and suggests new comparative opportunities for the study of transnational action that seeks to save and secure human lives and improve the human condition. Above all, the book foregrounds and analyzes the open-ended, innovative, and unpredictable nature of international intervention that is usually omitted from the ordered representations of the technocratic vision and the confident assertions of many critiques.Less
This book argues for an ethnographic analysis of international intervention as a series of encounters, focusing on the relations of difference and inequality, and the question of legitimacy that permeate such encounters. The book discusses the transformations that happen in everyday engagements between intervention agents and their target populations, and also identifies key instabilities that emerge out of such engagements. It highlights the struggles, entanglements and inter-dependencies between and among foreign agents, and the people of Bosnia-Herzegovina that channel and shape intervention and how it unfolds. Drawing upon nearly two years of fieldwork studying in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina, the book's analysis identifies previously overlooked sites, processes, and effects of international intervention, and suggests new comparative opportunities for the study of transnational action that seeks to save and secure human lives and improve the human condition. Above all, the book foregrounds and analyzes the open-ended, innovative, and unpredictable nature of international intervention that is usually omitted from the ordered representations of the technocratic vision and the confident assertions of many critiques.
