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1. Transnational Advocacy: New Spaces, New Voices.

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Gilson, Julie

Subjects
*TRANSNATIONALISM, *SOCIAL advocacy, *ACTIVISM, *POLITICAL participation
Abstract

There are many examples today of transnational advocacy groups, and much scholarship to identify how their growing presence contributes to understanding new and complex forms of global governance. This article seeks to present a corrective to the general trend to regard the “transnational” as a specific site of political engagement, and instead it draws principally on the work of Henri Lefebvre and scholarship from Human Geography to find ways to examine transnational advocacy as the ongoing process resulting from intersecting and diverse experiences of individuals and groups. In so doing, it aims further to redefine the spatiality of activism, by questioning how advocates determine the physical borders within which they function alongside those cognitive borders to which they attach themselves, and how those very borders are constantly redefined by their interactions. Using illustrative examples from Asia, this article proposes the need to rethink the transnational along three intersecting dimensions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2011
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2. NGO Networks and Civil Society: Mine Action in Southeast Asia.

Author

Gilson, Julie

Subjects
*CIVIL society, *NONGOVERNMENTAL organizations, *ACTIVISM, *DEMOCRACY
Abstract

Debates over the significance of non-governmental actors and their (perceived and evidential) role in shaping, and being influenced by, local understandings of ?civil society? have become commonplace in Western literature. This paper examines the problems inherent in applying this growing body of literature to the case of Asia, by examining in particular the changing nature of domestic and international non-governmental organizations involved in mine action in Southeast Asia.First, it will examine the problems inherent in the foundational assumptions of this literature when applied to the disparate forms of civil or civic behaviour in Asia. It will also analyse the impact of legal and social constraints existing within the three states under investigation (namely, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia) vis-à-vis civil society actors and particular definitions of the term ?NGO.?Second, it will examine how the processes of networking and socialisation between and among international and local NGO groups in mine action have impacted on the host environments in which they function. In this way, it aims to contextualise NGO behaviour; to explain the (non-) existence of European-style NGO activity within Asia; to analyze the impact of international discourses of activism and democracy on locally active group formation and behaviour; and to present potential alternative typologies for such nonstate groupings. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2007

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