Getting action for global economic justice: the micro-foundations of transnational activism

IF 3.2 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Socio-Economic Review Pub Date : 2024-01-30 DOI:10.1093/ser/mwad077

Leonard Seabrooke, Duncan Wigan

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Abstract

Generating momentum for activist campaigns on complicated economic issues is difficult, especially in a transnational context. So, how did activists get action on tax justice and create a movement that has changed global tax policy? Drawing on 20 years of para-ethnographic fieldwork with the Tax Justice Network, we suggest that activists initially engaged in ‘identity switching’ tactics to access professional or policy arenas from a footing in one identity, to then switch identities to activate policy shifts. A first-generation leveraged multiple professional identities to access forums, build credibility and introduce a tax lexicon to activists and policymakers. These tactics were not, however, replicable, leading a second generation to concentrate on ‘identity fixing’, including professionalization and a tightening of organizational strategy over access and activation points. Here we theorize identity switching and fixing as underappreciated micro-foundations of transnational activism and demonstrate their importance for global economic justice.

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为全球经济正义采取行动：跨国行动主义的微观基础

在复杂的经济问题上为积极分子的运动造势是很困难的，尤其是在跨国背景下。那么，活动家们是如何在税收正义问题上采取行动并发起一场改变全球税收政策的运动的呢？根据税收正义网络 20 年来的准人种学实地调查，我们认为，活动人士最初采用了 "身份转换 "策略，以一种身份进入专业或政策领域，然后再转换身份来激活政策转变。第一代活动家利用多重专业身份进入论坛，建立信誉，并向活动家和政策制定者介绍税收词汇。然而，这些策略并不具有可复制性，这导致第二代人开始专注于 "身份固定"，包括专业化以及加强组织战略对访问和激活点的控制。在此，我们将身份转换和身份固定理论化，作为跨国行动主义未被充分重视的微观基础，并证明其对全球经济正义的重要性。

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