Rethinking the Impact of Transnational Advocacy Networks

Rodrigues Maria G
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Rodrigues Maria G: College of the Holy Cross

New Global Studies, 2011, vol. 5, issue 2, 23

Abstract: This comparative longitudinal study of efforts to promote the environmental sustainability of the Brazilian and the Ecuadorian Amazon regions re-examines the theory of transnational advocacy networks (TANs). In particular, this study challenges the assumption that local advocacy groups participating in TANs are empowered by the experience. As we enter a second decade of accumulated knowledge about transnational advocacy networks, empirical evidence suggests a murkier portrait of the impact of TANs on local activism. Local groups may indeed gain political power and technical capacity as a result of their participation in a TAN. They may also experience a reversal of their initial empowerment gains. Finally, local activist groups may undergo complete demobilization in the aftermath of their participation in a TAN. This study underscores the possibility that participation in global advocacy efforts may entail a variety of consequences for local activist organizations and attempts to explain this variance.

Keywords: transnational advocacy networks; social movements; Latin America; Amazonia; Ecuador; Chevron-Texaco (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.2202/1940-0004.1124

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