Dauvergne / LeBaron Protest Inc.

The Corporatization of Activism
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8119-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, E-Book

Mass protests have raged since the global financial crisis of 2008.Across the world students and workers and environmentalists aretaking to the streets. Discontent is seething even in thewealthiest countries, as the world saw with Occupy Wall Street in2011.
Protest Inc. tells a disturbingly different story of globalactivism. As millions of grassroots activists rally againstcapitalism, activism more broadly is increasingly mirroringbusiness management and echoing calls for market-based solutions.The past decade has seen nongovernmental organizations partner withoil companies like ExxonMobil, discount retailers like Walmart,fast-food chains like McDonald's, and brand manufacturerslike Nike and Coca-Cola. NGOs are courting billionairephilanthropists, branding causes, and turning to consumers aswellsprings of reform.
Are "career" activists selling out to pay staff andfund programs? Partly. But far more is going on. Political andsocioeconomic changes are enhancing the power of business tocorporatize activism, including a worldwide crackdown on dissent, astrengthening of consumerism, a privatization of daily life, and ashifting of activism into business-style institutions. Grassrootsactivists are fighting back. Yet, even as protestors march andoccupy cities, more and more activist organizations arecollaborating with business and advocating for corporate-friendly"solutions." This landmark book sounds the alarm aboutthe dangers of this corporatizing trend for the future oftransformative change in world politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dauvergne, Peter

LeBaron, Genevieve

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
1 Where are the Radicals? 1
2 Seeing Like a Corporation 29
3 Securitizing Dissent 55
4 Privatizing Social Life 82
5 Institutionalizing Activism 108
6 A Corporatized World Order 134
Notes 157
Index 193

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Dauvergne is professor of international relations at the University of British Columbia, and author of the bestselling The Shadows of Consumption (2008), which received the Gerald L. Young Book Award in Human Ecology.
Genevieve LeBaron is Vice-Chancellor's Fellow in politics at the University of Sheffield.