Transnational Activism in the UN and the EU

Joachim, Jutta; Locher, Birgit

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“…Social movement theory has been used to understand NGO's impact on institutions, their potential for agency, and their role as the carriers of new norms and ideas (McAdam 1996;Imig and Tarrow 2001;Joachim 2007;Joachim and Locher 2008). Specifically, political opportunity structure (POS), a concept employed by political process theorists, assesses how external structural factors influence the choice of NGO strategies and their possibilities to impact their environment.…”

Section: Social Movement Theory and Ngosmentioning

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Irish Pro-Migrant Nongovernmental Organizations and the Politics of Immigration

Cullen

2009

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In this article social movement theory is used to assess the strategic repertoire of a relatively new sector of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) advocating for migrants rights in Ireland. Pro-migrant NGOs are majority community-led and face a challenging political and societal context for mobilization including a restrictive immigration regime, political and media discourse that racializes migrants, weak public support for the expansion of migrants' rights, and high rates of discrimination and social exclusion experienced by migrant communities. A competitive funding environment also inhibits pro-migrant NGOs capacity to work with emerging migrant-led organizations that simultaneously compete for state and foundation funds. Pro-migrant NGOs in Ireland have responded with a three levelled strategy, namely alliance building with sympathetic public officials and service and information provision to state bodies, campaigns contesting negative media and societal framing of migrants, and networking with transnational NGO coalitions working on immigration issues.Résumé Dans cet article, la théorie du mouvement social est utilisée pour évaluer le répertoire stratégique d'un secteur relativement nouveau qui fait valoir les droits des immigrés en Irlande par le biais des Organisations non gouvernementales. Celles-ci sont en faveur de l'émigration recevant l'aval des communautés et font face à un défi du contexte politique et social stimulant y compris un régime d'immigration restrictif, un discours politique médiatisé qui a tendance à marginaliser les émigrés, un appui du public sporadique en ce qui concerne l'extension des droits des immigrés et beaucoup de discrimination et d'exclusion sont endurées par les émigrés. Un environnement de financement compétitif empêche également la possibilité aux organisations non gouvernementales en faveur de l'immigration de travailler de pair avec les organisations menées par les émigrés qui rivalisent simultanément avec l'état et les fonds nécessaires. Des Organisations non gouvernementales en faveur de l'immigration en Irlande ont répondu par une stratégie à trois niveaux : (1) La mise au point d'une d'alliance avec des fonctionnaires publics compatissants et le service et l'information prévisionnelle destinée aux corps éta-tiques.(2) Des campagnes contestant la négativité des médias et l'encadrement social des émigrants. (3) Et enfin la constitution de réseaux de coalitions d'Organisations non gouvernementales transnationales travaillant sur les questions des problèmes suscités par d'immigration.Zusammenfassung In diesem Artikel wird die Theorie der sozialen Bewegung genutzt, um das strategische Repertoire eines relativ neuen NGO-Sektors, der sich für die Rechte von Migranten in Irland einsetzt, zu bewerten. Pro-migrant-NGOs sind mehrheitlich von lokalen Gemeinschaften geführt und stehen einem schwierigen politischen und gesellschaftlichen Kontext für die Mobilisierung gegenüber, inklusive restriktivem Immigrationsregelwerk, politischem und medialem Diskurs, der Migranten rassifi...

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Section: Social Movement Theory and Ngosmentioning

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Irish Pro-Migrant Nongovernmental Organizations and the Politics of Immigration

Cullen

2009

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“…In an edited volume on transnational activism in the UN and EU, Joachim and Locher (2008) demonstrate how the structures of international agencies shape NGO strategies. Hadden (2014, p.9) shows, in a study of the involvement of the global justice movement in the climate justice movement in the mid-2000s, how the political climate and structures of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change shaped a response that made the UNFCCC summit activism in Copenhagen in 2009 more conciliatory than the highly-oppositional anti-globalization protests against the World Trade Organization in the early-2000s.…”

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“…As civil society becomes more interconnected and global (Clarke, 2016;Chandler, 2004;Katz & Anheier, 2006), transnational social movements increasingly take on a global scope and diverse makeup (Joachim & Locher, 2008;Hadden, 2014). As the problems caused by globalization and the effects of climate change are increasingly felt, the responses to these problems have become increasingly transnational.…”

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Connecting Global and Local Indonesian Religious Environmental Movements

Smith¹

2018

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ABSTRAKArtikel ini membahas hubungan antara gerakan sosial transnasional-lintas agama yang menangani perubahan iklim dalam skala global dengan ekspresi lokal agama dan ekologi di Indonesia. Artikel ini menghubungkan dua tren dalam literature, yaitu agama dan ekologi: 1) analisis spasial agama dan lingkungan alam dan 2) studi tentang gerakan sosial lingkungan religius. Banyak penelitian tentang pergerakan aktivis agama di pusat, yang menunjukkan bahwa mereka beroperasi di zona terpisah, agak terputus dari masyarakat lokal yang ingin mereka wakili dan direformasi. Artikel ini berpendapat bahwa gerakan lingkungan religius dapat dipahami dengan lebih baik dengan menempatkannya di tengah, sebagai aktor yang tertanam dan dibentuk oleh ruang global dan lokal yang tumpang tindih. Artikel tersebut diawali dengan tinjauan singkat literatur tentang agama dan ekologi yang relevan dengan analisis spasial agama dan gerakan sosial lingkungan. Tinjauan ini berpendapat bahwa studi tentang gerakan lingkungan religius dapat disematkan dalam konteks global dan lokal. Ini memberi contoh bagaimana konteks Indonesia (antara lain) telah membantu membentuk gerakan lingkungan religius global. Selanjutnya, artikel tersebut menyajikan studi kasus di Indonesia yang menunjukkan bagaimana wacana lingkungan diciptakan bersama oleh masyarakat lokal dan aktivis agama. Artikel ini diakhiri dengan saran untuk studi lebih lanjut tentang adaptasi kreatif terhadap perubahan iklim di tingkat lokal dan global.Kata Kunci: Agama; Aksi sosial antaragama; Ekologi; Gerakan lingkungan; Gerakan sosial global; Globalisasi; Indonesia; Perubahan iklim;. ABSTRACTThis article discusses connections between transnational multi-faith social movements addressing climate change on a global scale with local expressions of religion and ecology in Indonesia. It connects two trends in literature on religion and ecology: 1) spatial analysis of religion and the natural environment and 2) studies of religious environmental social movements. Many studies of these movements put religious activists at the center, which suggests that they operate in a separate zone, somewhat disconnected from the local communities they aim to represent and reform. This article argues that religious environmental movements can be better understood by placing them in the middle, as actors embedded in and shaped by overlapping global and local spaces. The article begins with a brief review of literature on religion and ecology relevant to a spatial analysis of religion and environmental social movements. It then argues that studies about religious environmental movements can be enriched by studying how movements are embedded in global and local contexts. It provides examples of how the Indonesian context (among others) has helped to shape global religious environmental movements. Next, the article presents case studies in Indonesia demonstrating how environmental activists share a dynamic relationship with their contexts, and how religious environmental discourses are co-created by local communities...

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“…Rather, the question here is how a 'politics of European civil society' can be initiated and institutionally anchored within the political spaces that have been opened up -or also withheld -by the European Union. The conquest of institutional spaces is a central aim of 'the new politics of European civil society' in analogy to global NGOs that have already attained recognition and a permanent status within the UN system (Joachim and Locher 2008). European civil society is more than the other side of government: it takes organizational form within particular political and legal arrangements that are set up to socially re-embed the market and to promote positive integration beyond the nation-state (Caporaso and Tarrow 2008).…”

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The New Politics of European Civil Society

Liebert¹,

Trenz²

2012

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Transnational Activism in the UN and the EU

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Irish Pro-Migrant Nongovernmental Organizations and the Politics of Immigration

Irish Pro-Migrant Nongovernmental Organizations and the Politics of Immigration

Connecting Global and Local Indonesian Religious Environmental Movements

The New Politics of European Civil Society

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