Goodbye to Grand Politics
The Cane Sugar Campaign and the Limits of Transnational Activism, 1968–1974
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12269013 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Van Dam (0000-0002-9547-1993, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 518-534 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-31 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0960-7773 • E-ISSN: 1469-2171 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0960777319000249 |
| OpenAlex | W2984935386 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
In 1968 Dutch activists launched a campaign focused on cane sugar as a symbol of unfair trading conditions for the global South. The history of the cane sugar campaign from 1968 to 1974 highlights how European integration provided hope for large-scale change and a common target. This led activists to establish European networks and campaigns. Its demise sheds new light on the new social movements’ shift from ‘grand politics’, aimed at a sudden and drastic transformation through global and European politics, towards incremental change by locally targeting specific companies and countries
Cane · Demise · Economics · Economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sugar · Sugar cane · Symbol (formal · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Engineering · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |