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Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018
Noon
Lubar Commons


Dr. Pablo Rueda Saiz, the Tinker Visiting Professor at UW Law School, will explain why rights-based movements shift away from legal tactics. To understand that shift, Dr. Saiz draws on Armstrong and Vernstein's (2008) multi-institutional approach to social movements. However, the approach proposed here reaches beyond their analysis in two important ways. Dr. Saiz's paper draws evidence from a specific campaign (the U'wa campaign) as a case study to generate hypotheses with respect to when, how, and why activists resort to institutions other than the state. Secondly, the approach proposed here addresses the changes in social movement targets, as did Armstrong and Bernstein, but it also seeks to explain the relationship between the scale, tactics, and targets of movements.

However, the analysis presented here does not seek to provide a general theory of social movement expansion and tactical change. Rather, it proposes a framework to conceptualize tactics within a multi-institutional political context and seeks to advance our understanding of the ways in which the state and the market provide the resources and opportunities for a certain type of activism, which I call "transnational market activism." Specifically, it advances a hypothesis to answer the following research question: how and why do activists expand their scale transnationally and shift from law-centered tactics to market tactics to target non-state actors?

Hosted by Professor Alexandra Huneeus, UW Law School.

  

Submitted by Law School News on December 5, 2018

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