MATEJOVA, Miriam, Stefan PARKER and Peter DAUVERGNE. The Politics of Repressing Environmentalists as Agents of Foreign Influence. Australian Journal of International Affairs. 2018, vol. 72, No 2, p. 1-18. ISSN 1035-7718. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2017.1421141.
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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.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Impact factor Impact factor: 1.171
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357718.2017.1421141
UT WoS 000429280500005
Keywords in English Depoliticisation; environmental movements; extractivism; NGOs; transnational advocacy networks
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Miriam Matejova, Ph.D., učo 245698. Changed: 29/9/2020 17:14.
Abstract
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.
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