Transnational activist networks influence global discourse without seeking formal institutional power
Evidence
As Dryzek argues (2006), such transnational resistance groups are a manifestation of reflexive modernization at the international level. They are not simply disruptive, as they constitute global public spheres that can affect the content and relative weight of global discourses and, so, the outcomes of international politics. These activists and groups fully intend to keep their political action in the public sphere, and while they ask for voice and participation in both the public and private realms, do not seek formal power in the institutions of national governments or international governance. — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 720
Categorization
- XREF: Relevant to the global civil-society threads and the WTO/food sovereignty material earlier in the book. — connects to: Seattle 1999 protests globalized critique of the Washington consensus — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 721; Diffuse transnational forces resist opposition partly because they are hard to visualize — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 446; Neoliberalism’s spread depended on transnational discourse networks rather than national institutions alone — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2118 (+9 more)
Broader Connections
- Neoliberalism’s spread depended on transnational discourse networks rather than national institutions alone
#corroborates(0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2118 - Small networked elite groups can dominate policy debates without being a majority
#expands(0.85) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 443 - Global structures enabled ideological community for marginalized intellectual movements
#corroborates(0.80) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 147 - Neoliberalism rose to hegemony through transnational networks of scholars and allies
#corroborates(0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 81 - Networked mutual influence, not heroic individuals, explains neoliberal thought formation
#corroborates(0.78) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 13 - Neoliberal ‘spontaneous order’ rhetoric masked deliberately orchestrated institutional networks
#expands(0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2114 - Global social fields can form from micro interactions without complex organization.
#corroborates(0.72) — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures, 26 - Pan-movements united members through mood rather than defined political goals
#corroborates(0.70) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 574