Description: Free Burma : Transnational Legal Action and Corporate Accountability, Paperback by Dale, John G., ISBN 0816646473, ISBN-13 9780816646470, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 ()
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Book Title: Free Burma : Transnational Legal Action and Corporate Accountabil
Author: Dale, John G.
Language: English