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Visions of Solidarity: U.S. Peace Activists in Nicaragua from War to Women's Activism and Globalization
Author(s): Clare M. Weber (Author)
- Publisher: Lexington Books (UK)
- Publication Date: 24 Aug. 2006
- Language: English
- Print length: 166 pages
- ISBN-10: 0739109928
- ISBN-13: 9780739109922
Book Description
Visions of Solidarity is currently the only study of peace activists transformation from an anti-war struggle to an anti-globalization struggle. It explores the power dynamics between citizen activists in the Global North and South, examining efforts at reframing issues of social justice over time, and highlighting transnational feminist politics and agency at the local level. This book focuses on the way that transnational activists strategies are negotiated across boundaries. Through a comparative ethnographic study of the U.S.-based Witness for Peace and the Wisconsin Coordination Council on Nicaragua, the author, Clare Weber, explores how the organizations came to have very different responses over time to the neoliberal development project imposed on Nicaragua by the United States. Weber skillfully links studies of transnational social movements, womens grassroot activism, and the Central America Peace movement in this unique book.
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About the Author
Clare M. Weber is assistant professor of sociology at California State University Dominguez Hills.
