Protest Inc The Corporatization of Activism

Name: Protest Inc The Corporatization of Activism
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ISBN: 9780745669496

ISBN-10: 0745669492

ISBN-13: 9780745669496

Edition: 2014

Authors: Peter Dauvergne, Genevieve LeBaron

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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…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 1/24/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 5.83" wide x 8.27" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.660

Peter Dauvergne is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Liu Institute for GlobalIssues at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of the award-winning TheShadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global Environment (MIT Press) and otherbooks.