TY - BOOK ID - 78437830 TI - Unexpected Power : Conflict and Change among Transnational Activists PY - 2018 SN - 150172729X 9781501727290 9780801445071 0801445078 9780801473241 0801473241 PB - Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Pressure groups KW - Human rights KW - Human rights advocacy KW - Advocacy groups KW - Interest groups KW - Political interest groups KW - Special interest groups (Pressure groups) KW - Functional representation KW - Political science KW - Representative government and representation KW - Lobbying KW - Policy networks KW - Political action committees KW - Social control KW - Basic rights KW - Civil rights (International law) KW - Rights, Human KW - Rights of man KW - Human security KW - Transitional justice KW - Truth commissions KW - Advocacy, Human rights KW - Social advocacy KW - National human rights institutions KW - Societies, etc. KW - Law and legislation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78437830 AB - U.S. human rights advocacy has long focused on civil and political rights-issues such as torture, censorship, and lack of democratic freedoms abroad. In the 1990s a series of high-profile anti-sweatshop and fair-trade campaigns shifted the spotlight to labor issues. But as human rights activists in the United States and elsewhere take up the cause of economic exploitation, they don't always agree on the nature of the problem, or on what should be done to address it. What is more, they do not necessarily have the final say: in many cases, the focus of a campaign will shift when local activists make their voices heard or when the imported aims of nongovernmental organizations conflict with the goals of the people they intend to help.Shareen Hertel explores the dramatic negotiations within cross-border human rights campaigns. Activists on the receiving end of such campaigns do much more than seek the help of powerful allies beyond their borders. They often also challenge outsiders' understandings of basic human rights-in some cases, directly (by "blocking" campaigns intended to help them) and in other cases, indirectly (by employing "backdoor moves" aimed at more subtly introducing new human rights norms). Hertel looks closely at struggles for human rights in two contexts: Bangladesh, where activists challenged the understanding of human rights central to an international campaign to prevent child labor in that country, and Mexico, where activists sought to broaden the scope of efforts to prevent discrimination against pregnant workers in their country. Hertel connects these unexpected challenges to a new wave of international advocacy, and thereby illuminates democratic struggles in the new global economy. ER -