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Oil, Diamonds, and Human Rights in the Marketplace. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Sep 2008, Pages: 240
This book explores the processes and outcomes of two
US social justice campaigns against the violence
associated with extractive industries in Sierra
Leone, Angola and Sudan: The Campaign to Eliminate
Conflict Diamonds and the Capital Markets Sanctions
Campaign. The book provides a narrative of the
campaigns and advances two arguments. It challenges
the notion that social movements cohese on the basis
of commonality of principle and argues that based on
the studies, ideologically diverse coalition
participants can successfully prosecute campaigns
based on strategic operationalization. Secondly,
most social movement scholarship is state centric in
its analysis of the opportunity structures that
enable mobilization and movement processes. This book
illustrates that opportunities for social justice
action also reside in the free market and are
therefore better understood through a tripartite
institutional, discursive and strategic opportunity
structure framework of analysis. The analysis sheds
more understanding of these specific initiatives as
well as the operationalization of coalition campaigns
and will be of interest to university students,
scholars and social justice activists.
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