Harnessing Hope through NGO Activism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9769374 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sasha Courville (Australian National University, corresponding author), N Piper (0000-0003-3993-8699, Australian National University) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 592 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 39-61 |
| Publication date | 2004-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716203261940 |
| OpenAlex | W2129084745 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
| References cited | 37 |
This article explores the relationship between hope and agency in the contexts of migrant rights activism and alternative trading relationships created through social and environmental certification systems. Using interviews with key respondents from nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), hope is assigned a positive role in the complex process of social change, providing that common goals can be agreed upon and achieved along the way. Two main layers of analysis emerge in this article. The first explores the relationship between hope and agency, with a particular focus on power, both enabling and coercive. Powerful groups can hijack hope, but also hope can be used to mobilize various marginalized groups to find a collective voice, eventually leading to empowerment. The power relations among groups determine how competing collective hopes play out in action. A second layer to the relationship between hope and action is the way in which hope effects social change. Through conceptualizing hope within the context of the change process, we address the relationship between hope, agency, and time. An important ingredient linking hope, agency, and time in a sustainable manner is the notion of empowerment
Action (physics · Agency (philosophy · Certification · Collective action · Context (archaeology · Empowerment · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Religion, Society, and Development
Sweeping Changes?” A Review of Recent Reforms on Protections for Migrant Domestic Workers in Asia and the Middle East
Transforming “Apathy Into Movement”
Policy and hope
Rightsholder-Driven Remedy for Business-Related Human Rights Abuse
Hope Cultures in Organizations
Communicating Climate Change
Everyday Politics of the World Economy
Social Identification in Collective Climate Activism
Hope in Environmental Philosophy
HIV/Aids and Hope(lessness)
Beyond Eschatology
Hope and anger as mediators between collective action frames and participation in collective mobilization
Countering populism through emotive transformation
Families
The “Migration-Development Nexus” Revisited from a Rights Perspective
Between Hope and Loss
Hope and climate change
Radical Hope
Learning from Young People Engaged in Climate Activism
Postfeminist individuating of a women collective and the strugglesome emergence of a relational collective feminist solidarity
Racism in the global era
A Proposal for an “Environmental Sports Journalism” (ESJ) Approach
More than a Media Moment
Health international non-governmental organizations, democracy, and tuberculosis mortality in developing nations
Traces of Hope from a New Transnational Well-Being Index
Rights of Foreign Domestic Workers — Emergence of Transnational and Transregional Solidarity
Understanding the Impetus for Modern Student Activism for Justice at an HBCU
NGOs Address Structural Racism
Mobilising (and immobilising) giving in pandemic and austerity Britain
Hope for a Cause as Cause for Hope
Connectedness and collectiveness amid islands of hope and trouble
Hopeful
Influence of the Weak
Understanding Mexican NGOs
Responsible migrants
The State & NGOs
Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Processes
The Political Economy of International Relations
Bringing Transnational Relations Back In
Towards a Gendered Political Economy
Human Rights of Migrants
The New Migration in Europe
Globalization and the Politics of Resistance
Towards a Gendered Political Economy
Transnational Activism in Asia
Trade, development and sustainability — a critical assessment of the “free trade dogma”
Trade, environment and development
New Hope or False Dawn
Globalization and Social Movements
Continental transnational activism and women workers' networks within Nafta
The view from the ground
Globalising Civil Society
Reconstructing World Politics
The Emotional Dimension in Legal Regulation
International Migration in Asia vis-à-vis Europe
The Vulnerability of Asian Women Migrant Workers to a Lack of Protection and to Violence
The New Untouchables
Trafficking
The NGO-Industrial Complex
The constitution of society
Why Does Fear Override Hope in Societies Engulfed by Intractable Conflict, as It Does in the Israeli Society
Social Accountability Audits
Balancing trade and the environment
| Unique citing works | 35 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,4 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |