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Record Nr.

UNINA9910836876503321

Autore

Schettler Leon Valentin (Brot für die Welt Berlin, Deutschland)

Titolo

Socializing Development : Transnational Social Movement Advocacy and the Human Rights Accountability of Multilateral Development Banks / Leon Valentin Schettler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2020

Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , 2020

ISBN

3-7328-5183-4

3-8394-5183-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Collana

Soziale Bewegung und Protest ; 2

Classificazione

MR 5600

Disciplina

330

Soggetti

Human Rights; Development; Social Movements; World Bank; Society; Neoliberalism; Economy; Politics; International Relations; Finance; Political Science; Process Tracing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  Contents    5  Acknowledgements    9  Abstract    11  List of Abbreviations    15  Introduction    17  1. Human Rights Accountability as a minimum threshold of MDB Legitimacy    25  2. Transnational Social Movements as agents of change in World Politics    49  3. Analytical Framework    65  4. Research Design    95  5. Human Rights Accountability at the World Ban    117  6. Case 1: A Revolution of World Bank Accountability (1988 - 1994)    123  7. Case 2: The Dilution of World Bank    157  8. Analysis    201  Conclusion    223  References    239  Appendix: List of Interviewees and Background Conversations    271

Sommario/riassunto

As Multilateral Development Banks increasingly gained influence in shaping global development, transnational social movements pushed to hold them accountable for their human rights impact towards communities. Leon Valentin Schettler presents a novel causal mechanism of movement advocacy towards MDBs, combining disruptive and conventional tactics. Systematically comparing the evolution of human rights standards and complaint mechanisms over the last three decades, he reveals how the combination of 1) declining US hegemony, 2) counter-mobilization by China and 3) movement



cooptation by the World Bank bureaucracy led to a dilution of human rights accountability in the 2010s.

Besprochen in:  www.centrum3.at, 9 (2020)