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advocacy
anti-corruption movements
Author_Andrew S. McFarland
Brent Spar
Brent Spar Incident
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civic
Civic Innovation
collective action theory
Collective Incidents
Color Revolutions
common
Common Pool Resource
consumerism
Contemporary Rural China
Country Music
creative
Creative Participation
Dixie Chicks
environmental activism
Environmental Issues
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fair trade campaigns
innovation
innovative civic engagement strategies
Izaak Walton League
National NGO Committee
networks
nontraditional protest methods
North American Free Trade Agreement
participation
political
Political Consumerism
Political Consumption
post-Communist Countries
post-Communist Eastern
Postauthoritarian States
postCommunist Countries
Public Interest Lobbies
Scattered Citizens
Shell UK
social movement studies
transnational
Transnational Advocacy Networks
Transnational Political Participation
Product details
- ISBN 9781594518195
- Weight: 385g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Boycotts and Dixie Chicks introduces the concept of 'creative political participation', collective political actions which do not use traditional methods and which are innovative, collaborative and creative in character. Andrew S. McFarland discusses creative participation on issues concerning the environment, political corruption, consumer rights, and transnational issues. He draws on specific examples including anti-corruption demonstrations in contemporary rural China, community action in 1890s Wisconsin, consumer boycotts of Shell Oil, ExxonMobil, the Nestle Corporation, and the Dixie Chicks music group, the 'colour revolutions' and transnational fair trade and transparency activism. Written in an engaging, everyday language and using a wide variety of sources and case studies, Boycotts and Dixie Chicks is highly recommended for students of alternative social and political movements and sociology.
Andrew S. McFarland is Professor of Political Science and a Fellow of the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
