Visions of Solidarity: U.S. Peace Activists in Nicaragua from War to Women's Activism and Globalization

by Clare M. Weber

Overview

Visions of Solidarity is currently the only study of peace activist's transformation from an anti-war struggle to an anti-globalization struggle. It explores the power dynamics between citizen activists in the Global North and South, examining efforts at reframing issues of social justice over time, and highlighting transnational feminist politics and agency at the local level. This book focuses on the way that transnational activists strategies are negotiated across boundaries. Through a comparative ethnographic study of the U.S.-based Witness for Peace and the Wisconsin Coordination Council on Nicaragua, the author, Clare Weber, explores how the organizations came to have very different responses over time to the neoliberal development project imposed on Nicaragua by the United States. Weber skillfully links studies of transnational social movements, women's grassroot activism, and the Central America Peace movement in this unique book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780739117187
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/18/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	166
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Clare M. Weber is assistant professor of sociology at California State University Dominguez Hills.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Rethinking Transnational Activism in Nicaragua
Chapter 2 Revolution and International Solidarity
Chapter 3 Examining White Privilege
Chapter 4 From Revolutionary Government to NGO's
Chapter 5 Women to Women Citizen Activism
Chapter 6 Witnessing for Peace After the Contra War
Chapter 7 Visions of Solidarity