Boycotts in the struggle for human rights

dc.contributor.advisorVeiga, Paula
dc.contributor.authorLe Bastard, Alice
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-19T11:13:43Z
dc.date.available2019-11-19T11:13:43Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionSecond semester University: University of Coimbraen_US
dc.description.abstractBoycotts are a fascinating and multifaceted consumer phenomenon, long used by citizens to exert pressure on higher spheres of power in order to enact social change. Boycotts have been an old companion of human rights struggles and are today recognized as a legitimate and powerful form of collective action. By empowering consumers to have a voice in the marketplace, they have challenged our traditional conception of political participation and more broadly of politics as centered in the nation-state. This tool seems particularly relevant today that human rights issues are more than ever globalized and intertwined with the way we consume. Consumer activism has become a popular and widespread human rights promotion and defense tool used by citizens, activists, NGOs and consumer groups. First, this paper will analyze the origins of boycotts, as part of a wider social movement striving for human rights, labor rights and social justice through consumption. Then we will explore two main questions: What are the successes and the limits of boycotts as a human rights promotion tool? And what have been states and businesses’ responses to consumer activism?en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/20.500.11825/1113
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25330/global-campus/19
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGlobal Campus Europe (EMA) theses 2018/2019;
dc.subjecthuman rightsen_US
dc.subjectactivistsen_US
dc.subjectsocial movementen_US
dc.subjectcivil societyen_US
dc.subjectcorporate responsibilityen_US
dc.titleBoycotts in the struggle for human rightsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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