Global Justice Activism and Policy Reform in Europe

Understanding When Change Happens

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19907293
AutoresClare Saunders (0000-0003-4995-4967, United Nations), Tasos Papadimitriou (University of Urbino)
EditoresPeter Utting, Mario Pianta (0000-0002-4111-0447), Anne Ellersiek (0000-0002-0523-2367)
Año2012
Páginas221
Fecha de publicación2012-11-12
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaGlobal Justice Activism and Policy Reform in Europe (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203097885
OpenAlexW1506869573
Open LibraryOL53924858M
ISBN9780203097885
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas11

In July 2005, an astounding 225,000 people, mostly clad in white, took to the streets of Edinburgh to form the largest demonstration Scotland has ever known. The demonstration demanded that the leaders of the G8 countries ‘Make Poverty History’ (MPH) by ‘dropping the debt’, ‘providing more and better aid’ and ensuring ‘trade justice’. The MPH demonstration and accompanying Live 8 concerts were so signifi cant that the Roman Catholic Primate, Archbishop Cormac Murphy O’Connor, called it ‘the greatest moral upheaval since the campaign against the slave trade’ (Rootes and Saunders 2007: 128)

Economic Justice · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Political theory and Gramsci · Public Administration · Economic policy · Europe · Social change · Social justice · Social movements · Social responsibility of business