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Allan, Jen Iris. "Activists across issues : forum multiplying and the new climate change activism." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/61189.
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Jansson, Andreas. "Collective Action Among Shareholder Activists." Doctoral thesis, Växjö : Växjö University Press, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-1665.
Full textZaatari, Zeina Mohamad Bassam. "Women activists of South Lebanon /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2003. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
Full textAbye, Tigest. "Life story narratives of Ethiopian women activists : the journey to feminist activism." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/15864.
Full textSayers, Anthony Michael. "Liberal party activists in British Columbia." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28278.
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Hollister, Karyn E. "Service: For God's or Activists' Sake?" Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1203.
Full textDespite the vast amount of literature on service trips, only modest efforts have been made to look at how ideologies formed on the trip change over time. There is also little work done comparing different social justice communities. This study examined the differences between two service and religious groups in these regards through 26 in-depth interviews with both current college students and graduates. An analysis of these interviews revealed several faith-based tensions between the service and faith communities. Based on this conclusion, I argue that in order to move toward more substantial and enduring outcomes, the service and faith community work best when they work together, or when individuals of either group have a source of social support
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2010
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Sociology Honors Program
Discipline: Sociology
Rodgers, Jessica. "Australian queer student activists' media representations of queer." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2010. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/41528/1/Jessica_Rodgers_Thesis.pdf.
Full textLubbers, Eveline. "Activist intelligence and covert corporate strategy : an analysis of corporate spying on critical activists." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2009. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=11906.
Full textKyparissis, Dimitrios. "Becoming and activist life stories of Greek activists participating in the European Social Forum." Thesis, University of Essex, 2011. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.549296.
Full textDavis, Leslie Karen. "The impact of long-term psychotherapy on the social activism of social activists." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ35398.pdf.
Full textPhillips, Sheryl Diann. "Praise the Political Activists: An Analysis of the Effects of Evangelical Religion on Political Activists, 1980-1988." W&M ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625684.
Full textAndriyani, Nori. "The making of Indonesian women worker activists." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq23116.pdf.
Full textNtsoelikane, Motselisi. "Male anti-rape activists : an exploratory study." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9933.
Full textThis thesis focuses on two questions: Why some men have chosen to work as anti-rape activists and what ideas these men have about the nature of rape, its causes and the way in which activism should combat rape. Information was gathered from face to face interviews with 12 male anti-rape activists from Cape Town, who were chosen using "snowball" sampling. This technique involves the location of one or more informants and requesting them to supply names of other people who would be likely participants in the research. The interviews were tape recorded and later transcribed. Nine of the respondents were interviewed in their offices while three were interviewed at home. The method of analysing data was to re-arrange it in terms of the main themes in the interview schedule.
Turner-Essel, Laura D. "Critical Consciousness Development of Black Women Activists: A Qualitative Examination." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1340049818.
Full textEriksson, Asa. "Empowering women activists : creating a monster : the contentious politics of gender within social justice activism." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14627.
Full textThis Master's Research Project has sought to investigate the discursive space for 'gender struggles' within contemporary South African class based social justice activism. It has done so in the form of a qualitative case study, analysing particular 'gender' interventions designed by a left-wing popular education organisation during 2006, and how these are theorized and contextualised against this specific moment in time in post-apartheid South Africa. The research has looked at how and why the organisation is presently trying to challenge gendered power inequalities in its internal and external work, strengthening women activists in the Community-based organisations and Social Movements which it targets, and contribute to putting women's strategic gender interests on the agenda of these movements, while simultaneously seeking to theorize the meaning of 'political' gender work in relation to its dominant perspective of class justice. The researcher has followed a specific empowerment initiative targeting women activists during the year, and has also engaged closely with the institutional dynamics in the organisation under study. The data has been gathered through interviews with staff members and women activists, and through participatory observation in educational events and office meetings. The theoretical framework for the study was designed in relation to Shireen Hassim's investigations of the "discursive space" for South African feminist groups to articulate their demands while continuing to work within the dominant, male-led resistance movements (Hassim, 2006:14-19), and to Amanda Gouws' theorizing of citizenship as including 'embodied' participation in political processes and activism (Gouws, 2005:1-16,71-87). It furthermore builds on contemporary theories on social movements and grassroots mobilisation in South Africa (recaptured by Ballard et. aI., 2006:3-19), on feminist consciousness-raising (Kaplan, 1997) and on organisational change for gender equality (Rao and Kelleher, 2003). Some of the suggestions made, while analysing the data against this theoretical framework, include; That the conflict which has emerged in the organisation under study in relation to the new 'gender programme' is indeed a contestation over the meaning of 'political' gender work, and over who can be a legitimate 'political actor' (Hassim, 2006: 17); simultaneously and contradictive, there is an awareness in the organisations that the nature of the 'working class' is shifting in pace with neo-liberal globalisation processes, and that rank-and-file members in working class organisations are now the unemployed or the casual workers, a majority of them being women (although leadership structures largely remain male territory), which theoretically should also prompt a shift in the focal organisations approach to 'political' gender work, but in practice, this is still a struggle; the empowerment programme which the research has followed closely throughout the year has led to women participants being ostracised, after surfacing issues of sexual harassment in the movements, but the rational/intellectual, spiritual and emotional learning which has happened in the group is analyzed as having been empowering on both an individual and collective level, inspiring new women's network to develop within movements of both men and women. The study suggests that engaging 'gender' and expanding the notion of 'political work' and who can be a 'political actor' is crucial if left-wing education and support organisations seek to remain relevant within a rapidly changing context.
Shepard, C. C. "Women activists and organisations in Ireland, 1945-60." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.492266.
Full textAndrews, Molly. "Lifetimes of commitment : a study of socialist activists." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328426.
Full textPerez, Matthew B. "Intersections of Puerto Rican Activists' Responses to Oppression." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1275957393.
Full textLeppert-Wahl, Marlaina A. "Pacifist Activists: Christian Peacemakers in Palestine 1995-2014." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1406901078.
Full textPrice, Linda 1966. "Making sense of political activism : life narratives of political activists from the South African liberation movement." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9750.
Full textThis is a study of the personal and social construction of meaning that political activists who have been involved in the South African liberation movement attribute to their lives. It examines the lives of a group of activists who were situated at the heart of the anti- apartheid movement for more than four decades. Their resistance to the wide-ranging laws and non-legal devices that the state employed to maintain white, Afrikaner Nationalist rule became the benchmark against which they lived their lives. 1960 saw an intensity of state oppression and brutality from which some activists escaped with their lives, while others were killed or jailed for life. The struggle to create a society where humanity and justice would triumph over cruelty and racial division was setback a generation. It took nearly three decades of defiance and unrest before Nelson Mandela was released from prison and South Africans sat down to negotiate the Interim Constitution that would guide the country towards its first democratic elections. ANC members in exile received indemnity so that they could return to the country and participate in the negotiations and four years later a new South Africa based on majority rule was won. Since these 1994 elections, South Africa has continued to undergo fundamental change from the old apartheid order to a new democratic dispensation. Oral stories are essential to this process as they contain memories of recent history that contribute significantly to contemporary political and social life, which in tum shape the future. The stories of the activists who comprise this study illustrate how their commitment to their cause and to themselves has shaped their lives, as well as those around them, and how meaningful engagement with the challenges of daily life can strengthen us as individuals.
Foley, Rebecca C. (Rebecca Claire) 1974. "The challenge of contemporary Muslim women activists in Malaysia." Monash University, School of Political and Social Inquiry, 2001. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/9128.
Full textWharton-Zaretsky, Marcia. "Black women activists in Toronto from 1950 to 1990." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0027/NQ45803.pdf.
Full textLambertson, Ross. "Repression and resistance : Canadian human rights activists, 1930 - 1960 /." Toronto [u.a.] : Univ. of Toronto Press, 2005. http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0e7v0-aa.
Full textAhjum, Gadija. "Islamist Biographies: Religious Experiences of South African Muslim Activists." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24804.
Full textKlenk, Rebecca Marshall. "Educating activists : gender, modernity, and development in north India /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6479.
Full textDemirel, Sinan S. ""We're not activists" : grassroots organizing among Seattle's homeless population /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8848.
Full textBritnell, Matthew James. "The historical and the political in the writings of Michael Oakeshott." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367147.
Full textKvarnström, Sofia. "“Our readers consider themselves activists” : A Mixed-Method Study of Consumption Discourses and Activism in Teen Vogue." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för mediestudier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-159691.
Full textGutnik, Arseniy Aldrich Howard. "Making sense of post-Soviet NGO activism committed activists, transnational institution-building and neoliberal reforms in Ukraine /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1902.
Full textTitle from electronic title page (viewed Dec. 11, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of Sociology." Discipline: Sociology; Department/School: Sociology.
Stange, Luke Li. "Shooting Activists! An embodied philosophy of activism in documentary praxis: An essay on the documentary, Noble Bohemia." Thesis, Stange, Luke Li (2001) Shooting Activists! An embodied philosophy of activism in documentary praxis: An essay on the documentary, Noble Bohemia. Masters by Coursework thesis, Murdoch University, 2001. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/32668/.
Full textSuhonen, Riikka. "Youth civic engagement in Bhutan: Obedient citizens or social activists?" Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23721.
Full textLundy, Susan Alice. "Aerosol activists practices and motivations of Oakland's political graffiti writers /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1679387321&sid=10&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textHudson, Nicholas. "Undocumented Latino Student Activists' Funds of Knowledge| Transforming Social Movements." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10602620.
Full textThere are approximately 28,000 to 55,000 undocumented enrolled in postsecondary institutions in the United States (Passel, 2003). In order to achieve their educational ambitions despite the structural social, socioeconomic, political, and legislative barriers facing them, undocumented students utilize various resources they have at their disposal. Minoritized populations, specifically undocumented Latino students, have employed individual and collective agency in overcoming structural racism and barriers enacted to maintain the status quo. This study of eight undocumented Latino student activists in Virginia and Washington reveals the various forms of resources available undocumented Latino student activists and documents how these students utilize them to navigate the barriers they encounter, shape the undocumented student social movement, and achieve their educational aspirations. This study seeks to uncover what resources undocumented Latino student activists have at their disposal and how the usage of said resources impacts policy formation on an institutional, state and national level.
The study seeks to uncover whether undocumented students utilize their available funds of knowledge to achieve their educational goals and navigate through the barriers they encounter. The study finds that undocumented Latino student activists utilize their funds of knowledge in agriculture, business, construction, mechanics, music, and religion to develop strategies to navigate through educational, financial, institutional, and intrapersonal barriers they encountered. This application of funds of knowledge and community cultural wealth to student activism moves the debate from a deficiency narrative that has long permeated higher education research to an agency narrative.
This study provides valuable insight into the increase of undocumented Latino students’ participation in activism and how one can best aid undocumented Latino student activists. Through the thematic narrative analysis, the lived history and stories of undocumented Latino student activists from Washington and Virginia are woven together to unveil individual and collective routes to educational attainment and activism on behalf of undocumented students.
Woods, Chelsea Lane. "The Outsiders: Understanding How Activists Use Issues Management to Challenge Corporate Behavior." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/comm_etds/61.
Full textFerreira, Daniela Damiati. "Ativismo institucional no governo federal : as práticas dos analistas técnicos de políticas sociais." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFABC, 2016.
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Situado no âmbito do tema do ativismo institucional, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo definir e identificar práticas ativistas, bem como analisar fatores que incidem sobre elas. Para alcançar esse objetivo, a presente pesquisa realizou uma ampla revisão bibliográfica, que permitiu propor uma definição para tais ações e igualmente facilitou a criação de um quadro por meio do qual são elencadas e examinadas as principais práticas ativistas encontradas na literatura da ciência política. A fim de verificar tais práticas in loco e reconhecer quais elementos influenciam os processos para que elas sejam promovidas ou reprimidas, realizou-se também uma pesquisa empírica. Esta centrou-se em entrevistas com os Analistas Técnicos de Políticas Sociais do Ministério do Desenvolvimento Social e Combate à Fome, uma vez que encontraram-se dados com indícios de que os profissionais dessa carreira possuíam um alto grau de engajamento político e social. Para a realização das análises e da pesquisa, utilizou-se do método qualitativo descritivo e explicativo, bem como de referências a análises contextuais. Por fim, o resultado desta investigação revelou que: 1) Existem ao menos onze práticas ativistas, das quais seis foram verificadas no grupo profissional referido; 2) Encontraram-se dez componentes, prioritariamente de cunho contextual político e institucional, que favorecem ou limitam atos de ativismo institucional; e 3) O perfil dos Analistas Técnicos de Políticas Sociais confirma que se trata de um grupo altamente engajado e militante.
Located within the theme of institutional activism, this work aims to define and identify activist¿s practices and analyze factors that affect them. To achieve this goal, this study conducted an extensive literature review, which allowed us to propose a definition for such actions and also facilitated the creation of a framework through which the main activists practices found in the literature of political science were listed and examined. In order to check such practices in the field and in order to try to recognize which elements influence the process that helps to promote or suppress them, we also held an empirical research. This research focused on interviews with Technical Analysts of Social Policies of the Ministry of Social Development and Fight Against Hunger, since there was evidence that this particular career had professionals with a high degree of political and social engagement. To carry out the analysis and research, we used descriptive and explanatory qualitative method, as well as references to contextual analysis. Finally, the results of this study revealed that: 1) There are at least eleven institutional activists practices, six of which were found in the referred professional group; 2) Ten components were found that favor or limit acts of institutional activism and they have primarily a political, institutional or contextual nature; and 3) The profile of Technical Analysts of Social Policies confirms that it is a highly engaged and militant group of professionals.
Harrington, Jane. "Women's local level trade union participation." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327308.
Full textAnderson, Jonathan Mark. "Environmental direct action : making space for new forms of political community?" Thesis, University of Bristol, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/470c8929-f448-4d1f-876b-78bdbad5f40c.
Full textFletcher, Samantha S. "Working toward Social Change| Lessons Learned from Liberal Lifelong Social Activists." Thesis, State University of New York at Albany, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10789015.
Full textSimilar to the goals of lifelong social activists, social workers are charged with pursuing social change for persons who live in poverty, face discrimination, and other forms of social injustice (National Association of Social Workers [NASW], 2008). In order to accomplish this mandate it is important to identify and emulate strategies that have historically been used by social activists to combat oppression and create social change. This dissertation research seeks to fill gaps regarding the lived experiences of lifelong social activists and to answer the following research questions: (1) How do individuals navigate a lifelong activism journey? (2) How have older lifelong social activists worked toward social change?
A multiple case study methodology was used to allow for a thorough examination and description of each participant’s experiences as well as a cross case comparison to produce common themes (Creswell, 2013; Stake, 2006; Yin, 2014). The sample consisted of four women and five men between the ages of 71 and 96 (M= 83). One of the participants identified as African American and eight of the participants identified as Caucasian. Data analysis followed multiple case study principles including with-in and cross-case analyses. Atlas ti, qualitative data analysis software, was used to organize the database and assist with analysis.
In response to the first research question, participants described three key components for navigating a lifelong activism journey: (1) conceptualizing social justice, (2) identifying and staying connected to motivating factors, and (3) cultivating and sustaining a lifelong activism journey. Each activist described their process for conceptualizing social justice which began with a sense of social justice that influenced their beliefs about how the world should be ordered; in turn, this drove how participants identified social problems and how they critiqued oppressive systems and social structures. Next, participants identified multiple motivating factors that moved them from conceptualizing social justice to working toward social change. Finally, the activists described several key elements that helped them cultivate and sustain their activism journeys including exposure to different membership groups and ideologies, establishing personal goals, relationships, identifying barriers, and self-reflection.
The second research question addressed strategies for working toward social change. For the activists in this study, a variety of resources, and movement through a series of stages was required in order to engage in social change work. A preparatory stage, organization stage, action stage, and a follow-up stage appeared to be interconnected and cyclical. Participants also identified the primary resources used throughout the activism stages, which included people, organizations, fundraising, and activism materials.
Each stage of the activism process revealed important information about how to work toward social change. The preparatory stage included a series of steps that prepared activists to organize for an action including recognizing the need for change, personal and group contemplation, investigating the social problem, and dividing the tasks necessary to move forward. The second stage, an organizational stage, moved activists from intellectualizing an issue to engaging in a social action. This stage of the activism process involved joining or forming social change groups, recruiting allies, training allies and peers, and detailed planning of the event. The third stage of the activism process included six social activism strategies: (1) advocating, (2) creative methods, (3) demonstrating, (4) educating the public, (5) providing resources, and (6) writing letters. The participants also identified a purpose and an intended outcome for each action. The fourth and final stage of the activism process was the follow-up stage. During this stage the participants assessed the action to improve future actions.
Grübmeyer, Sonja Felicitas. "Quiet Activists - Environmental Values and Value Adjustment in Environmental Policy Advisors." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2369.
Full textJull, Barbara. "Psychotherapeutic experiential interventions for activists, examining the Despair and Empowerment paradigm." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0022/MQ51569.pdf.
Full textCarrillo, Maria Lourdes. "Socially transformative transnational feminism : Filipino women activists at home and abroad." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/14705.
Full textSham, Priscilla, and 沈蔚. "Post-90s Hong Kong girl activists and their struggles for recognition." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2012. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B4833022X.
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Horton, David Richard. "Searching for sustainability : an ethnography of everyday life among environmental activists." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.419099.
Full textLaight, Jean. "Resistance and resilience : exploring narratives of women teacher trade union activists." Thesis, Leeds Beckett University, 2018. http://eprints.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/5543/.
Full textde, la Peña Adriana. "Translocal Urban Activists: Brokers and the Geographies of Urban Social Movements." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22782.
Full textPlace, Alison L. "IRL Feminism: Bridging Physical and Digital Spaces to Empower Millennial Activists." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1511970317427688.
Full textTaymuree, Zainab(Zainab Feroza). "The missing designers : a history of activists designing for racial justice." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/129064.
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Design precedents are often de-historicized, de-politicized, and de-raced. By starting at the margins, what lineages can designers uncover for seemingly apolitical design tactics? Intervening in the genealogy of race and design, this thesis locates design creativity within Black resistance movements and complicates the narrative of who is credited with transforming and repurposing the built environment. As critics of the status quo, Black activists did more than just fight and dismantle. They designed and created alternatives to the systems that aimed to diminish them. Two case studies offer a closer look at design interventions for self-determination by Black communities in the late 1960s. In Chapter One, I consider the Black Panthers as tactical urbanists who reshaped the environment in low-cost, temporary, and participatory ways. In Chapter Two, I examine the New Communities land trust and their design charrettes as a democratic intervention in an often professionalized planning process. Chapter Three considers how Critical Race Theory decodes images in these cases that seem natural, inevitable, and race neutral.
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Wilcock, Cathy. "Building peace from diaspora : UK Sudanese opposition activists, peacebuilding and hybridity." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/building-peace-from-diaspora-uk-sudanese-opposition-activists-peacebuilding-and-hybridity(23b7ceaa-8f85-4123-bc48-ac3435eef2f2).html.
Full textWhelan, James M., and n/a. "Education and Training For Effective Environmental Advocacy." Griffith University. Australian School of Environmental Studies, 2002. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20040526.140105.
Full textTheron, Jean Monique. "Political Consumerism: Possibilities for International Norm Change." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4109.
Full textThesis (MA (Political Science))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Consumers are gradually becoming influential actors in the international arena. The 21st century consumer has taken on a new identity, namely that of a citizen-consumer. A rising awareness of the importance of ethical purchasing behaviour has made political citizen-consumers a vehicle through which change in normative behaviour in the capitalist world economy could be attained. Activists have realised the support that political consumers could give to campaigns that strive to achieve norm change. Consumers have the power to hold multinational corporations (MNCs) accountable for unjust practices, and through their purchasing decisions, pressure MNCs to change the manner in which they operate. In order to determine to what extent political consumerism could contribute to international norm change, one has to understand how norms emerge, when norms are accepted and at which point norms become internalised. The theoretical framework of the life-cycle of norms is ideal to test the possibilities that political consumerism holds in the quest for norm change. The application of norm life-cycle framework to case studies provides evidence that political consumerism has already announced itself as a vehicle for change. Campaigns such as the conflict diamonds campaign and the Fair Trade movement have already successfully co-opted consumers to support the goals of these campaigns and have achieved some results in changing the behaviour and policies of MNCs. Political consumers have therefore already embarked on the journey towards norm change, but have not yet been able to bring the norm to internalisation. The study determines which stage in the norm life-cycle political consumerism has managed to reach. Related to this, it asks whether it is in fact possible for activists and political consumers to complete the norm life-cycle and thereby effect norm change to enhance capacity for social justice in capitalism. The study also concerns itself with the persuasion strategies that have been used and could still be used by activists to pursue change in the normative behaviour of consumers and MNCs. Persuasion is central to convincing actors to accept and internalise a new norm. The study situates these persuasion strategies within the norm life-cycle, in order to identify the challenges facing the consumer movement and possible solutions to assist political consumerism to reach its full potential.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In die internasionale arena het verbruikers gaandeweg die rol van invloedryke akteurs begin aanneem, naamlik dié van burgerlike-verbruikers. ‘n Toenemende bewustheid van die belangrikheid van etiese aankope het gedurende die 21ste eeu die politieke burgerlike-verbruiker in ‘n akteur omskep, wat normatiewe verandering in die kapitalistiese globale ekonomie te weeg kan bring. Aktiviste het besef dat politieke verbruikers steun aan veldtogte kan verleen wat na norm verandering streef. Omdat verbruikers oor die vermoë beskik om multi-nasionale korporasies (MNKs) vir onregverdige gebruike aanspreeklik te hou deur aankoop besluite, kan hul sodoende MNKs dwing on hul gebruike te verander. ‘n Begrip van die ontstaan en aanvaarding van norme, kan ook help om vas te stel tot watter mate politieke verbruiking tot internasionale norm verandering bydra. Die teoretiese raamwerk van die lewens-siklus van norme is ideaal om die potensiaal van politieke verbruiking te toets. Die toepassing van die norm lewens-siklus op gevallestudies bewys dat politieke verbruiking alreeds as ‘n middel vir verandering uitgekristaliseer het. Veldtogte, soos die konflik diamante veldtog en die “Fair Trade” beweging, het alreeds daarin geslaag om verbruikers te werf om die doelwitte van hierdie veldtogte te steun. Hierdie veldtogte het sodoende daarin geslaag om die verandering van MNKs se gedrag en beleid te bewerkstellig. Politieke verbruikers het hul reeds met die veldtog geassosieer om norm-verandering te laat plaasvind. Die studie het bepaal watter stadium in die norm lewens-siklus politieke verbruiking reeds bereik het, asook of dit moontlik vir aktiviste en verbruikers is om die siklus te voltooi en norm-verandering te laat plaasvind. Hierdie norm-verandering sal ook die vermoë vir die sosiale regverdiging van die kapitalistiese stelsel verbeter. Die studie het ook die aktiviste se oorredingstrategië uiteengesit, asook watter strategië in die toekoms kan gebruik word om die normatiewe gedrag van verbruikers en MNKs te verander. In die aanvaarding van nuwe norme speel oorreding ‘n belangrike rol. Die studie plaas daarom hierdie oorredingstrategië binne die norm lewens-siklus, sodat dit die uitdagings kan identifiseer wat die verbruikers-beweging in die gesig staar. Dit sal daarom vir die studie moontlik maak om werkbare opplossings voor te stel, wat politieke verbruiking tot sy volle potensiaal kan voer.