J 2018

The Politics of Repressing Environmentalists as Agents of Foreign Influence

MATEJOVA, Miriam, Stefan PARKER and Peter DAUVERGNE

Basic information

Original name

The Politics of Repressing Environmentalists as Agents of Foreign Influence

Authors

MATEJOVA, Miriam, Stefan PARKER and Peter DAUVERGNE

Edition

Australian Journal of International Affairs, 2018, 1035-7718

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 1.171

DOI

UT WoS

000429280500005

Keywords in English

Depoliticisation; environmental movements; extractivism; NGOs; transnational advocacy networks

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 29/9/2020 17:14, Miriam Matejova, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

Theoretically, this article reveals the long-term risk for local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) of participating in transnational advocacy networks (TANs), accepting money from foreign sources and throwing boomerangs' internationally a strategy used by local NGOs to seek international allies to pressure repressive and unresponsive states at home. Focusing primarily on the suppression of environmental NGOs that oppose natural-resource extraction, this article examines three cases Russia, India and Australia to illuminate the consequences of this trend for local civil society and TANs. It also documents a global trend towards states depicting local NGOs with international linkages as subversive agents of foreign interests, justifying legal crackdowns and the severing of foreign funding and ties. State framing of NGOs as agents of foreign interests is repressing local environmental activism, depoliticising civil society and weakening international NGO alliances a conclusion with far-reaching consequences for the future of TANs, local NGOs and environmental activism.