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Explaining Variation in Transnational Climate Change Activism: The Role of Inter-Movement Spillover

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  • Jennifer Hadden

    (Jennifer Hadden is an assistant professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland.)

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How can we explain variation in the volume and character of transnational collective action on climate change? This paper presents original qualitative and quantitative data to document how transnational activism on climate change has changed over time. The author draws attention to the role of transnational social movement spillover—a process by which ideas, activists, and tactics are diffused from one movement to another—in explaining this evolution. The article examines the spillover of the global justice movement to the climate justice movement from 2007 to 2009, linking this spillover to changes in the nature of activism. In contrast to previous approaches, this work shows that transnational social movement spillover can result in the expansion of contention without radicalizing those actors already involved. This case demonstrates the theoretical importance of the spillover process and offers lessons for future climate activism. © 2014 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Jennifer Hadden, 2014. "Explaining Variation in Transnational Climate Change Activism: The Role of Inter-Movement Spillover," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 14(2), pages 7-25, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:14:y:2014:i:2:p:7-25
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    1. Elvis Parraguez-Vergara & Jonathan R. Barton & Gabriela Raposo-Quintana, 2016. "Impacts of Climate Change in the Andean Foothills of Chile: Economic and Cultural Vulnerability of Indigenous Mapuche Livelihoods," Journal of Developing Societies, , vol. 32(4), pages 454-483, December.
    2. Fahlberg, Anjuli & Velasquez, Maya & Wise, Harper & Simon, Tori, 2023. "Tangential Movements: How feminist organizing against gender-based violence offers an alternative avenue for protesting drug violence in Latin America," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 161(C).
    3. Jonathan W. Kuyper & Karin Bäckstrand, 2016. "Accountability and Representation: Nonstate Actors in UN Climate Diplomacy," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 16(2), pages 61-81, May.
    4. Jason Thistlethwaite & Matthew Paterson, 2016. "Private governance and accounting for sustainability networks," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 34(7), pages 1197-1221, November.

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    Keywords

    climage change; transnational activism; climate justice movement;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming

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