Protest Inc. : the corporatization of activism / Peter Dauvergne and Genevieve LeBaron.

By:

Dauvergne, Peter

Contributor(s):

LeBaron, Genevieve

Language: English Publication details: Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 2014.Description: viii, 206 pages ; 21 cmISBN:

9780745669496
0745669492

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

HM 881 D244p 2014

Contents:

Where are the Radicals? Seeing Like a Corporation Securitizing Dissent Privatizing Social Life Institutionalizing Activism A Corporatized World Order

Summary: Mass protests have raged since the global financial crisis of 2008. Across the world students and workers and environmentalists are taking to the streets. Discontent is seething even in the wealthiest countries, as the world saw with Occupy Wall Street in 2011. Protest Inc. tells a disturbingly different story of global activism. As millions of grassroots activists rally against capitalism, activism more broadly is increasingly mirroring business management and echoing calls for market-based solutions. The past decade has seen nongovernmental organizations partner with oil companies like ExxonMobil, discount retailers like Walmart, fast-food chains like McDonald's, and brand manufacturers like Nike and Coca-Cola. NGOs are courting billionaire philanthropists, branding causes, and turning to consumers as wellsprings of reform ... Political and socioeconomic changes are enhancing the power of business to corporatize activism, including a worldwide crackdown on dissent, a strengthening of consumerism, a privatization of daily life, and a shifting of activism into business-style institutions .

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Ciencias Sociales	Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso)	HM 881 D244p 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00000181967

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-192) and index.

Where are the Radicals?
Seeing Like a Corporation
Securitizing Dissent
Privatizing Social Life
Institutionalizing Activism
A Corporatized World Order

Mass protests have raged since the global financial crisis of 2008. Across the world students and workers and environmentalists are taking to the streets. Discontent is seething even in the wealthiest countries, as the world saw with Occupy Wall Street in 2011. Protest Inc. tells a disturbingly different story of global activism. As millions of grassroots activists rally against capitalism, activism more broadly is increasingly mirroring business management and echoing calls for market-based solutions. The past decade has seen nongovernmental organizations partner with oil companies like ExxonMobil, discount retailers like Walmart, fast-food chains like McDonald's, and brand manufacturers like Nike and Coca-Cola. NGOs are courting billionaire philanthropists, branding causes, and turning to consumers as wellsprings of reform ... Political and socioeconomic changes are enhancing the power of business to corporatize activism, including a worldwide crackdown on dissent, a strengthening of consumerism, a privatization of daily life, and a shifting of activism into business-style institutions .

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