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Free Burma : transnational legal action and corporate accountability / John G. Dale.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dale, John G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International relations.
- United States--Foreign relations--Law and legislation.
- United States.
- United States. Alien Tort Claims Act.
- Burma--International status.
- Burma.
- Burma--Politics and government--1988-.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Foreign relations--Burma.
- Burma--Foreign relations--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 272 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- Dale (sociology, George Mason U.) analyzes the engagement of pro-democracy activists in Burma (renamed Myanmar by its military junta) with international actors and with the issue of corporate accountability, arguing that the domestic pro-democracy movement, thought to be moribund by many observers, has transformed itself into a transnational social movement that was able to initiate legal campaigns to bring attention to human rights abuses and the complicity of democratic states and multinational corporations. He examines three campaigns in particular: efforts to pass a selective purchasing law that prohibits the state of Massachusetts from doing business with companies that also do business with Burma; a petition to decharter the Unocal Corporation over its projects in Burma; and an Alien Tort Claims Act suit brought by Burmese peasants who claimed that they were used as slave labor for a Unocal pipeline in Burma. These struggles, Dale argues, opened up a "transnational legal space" in which pro-democracy activists can struggle to reshape how the rules of globalization are politically, legally, and morally constructed. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Burma's struggle for democracy and human rights before 1988
- Locating power in the free Burma movement
- Free Burma laws : legislating transnational sanctions
- Corporate "death penalty" : executing charter revocation
- Alien tort claims : adjudicating human rights abuses abroad.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816646463
- 0816646465
- 9780816646470
- 0816646473
- OCLC:
- 687677460
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