Oil Diamonds and Human Rights in the Marketplace: Campaigning to stop the capitalization of Sudanese oil development and the international trade in conflict diamonds
Document Type
Book
ISBN
978-3639073454
Publication Date
9-2008
Keywords
Political sciences, social sciences, human rights, oil
Description
This book explores the processes and outcomes of two US social justice campaigns against the violence associated with extractive industries in Sierra Leone, Angola and Sudan: The Campaign to Eliminate Conflict Diamonds and the Capital Markets Sanctions Campaign. The book provides a narrative of the campaigns and advances two arguments. It challenges the notion that social movements cohese on the basis of commonality of principle and argues that based on the studies, ideologically diverse coalition participants can successfully prosecute campaigns based on strategic operationalization. Secondly, most social movement scholarship is state centric inits analysis of the opportunity structures that enable mobilization and movement processes. This book illustrates that opportunities for social justice action also reside in the free market and are therefore better understood through a tripartite institutional, discursive and strategic opportunity structure framework of analysis. The analysis sheds more understanding of these specific initiatives as well as the operationalization of coalition campaigns and will be of interest to university students,scholars and social justice activists.
Publisher
VDM Verlag
First Page
1
Last Page
240
Disciplines
Human Rights Law | International Relations | Political Science | Social and Behavioral Sciences
NSUWorks Citation
Muvingi, Ismael. Oil Diamonds and Human Rights in the Marketplace: Campaigning to stop the capitalization of Sudanese oil development and the international trade in conflict diamonds.: VDM Verlag.