Goodbye to Grand Politics: The Cane Sugar Campaign and the Limits of Transnational Activism, 1968–1974
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| Publication date | 11-2019 |
| Journal | Contemporary European History |
| Volume | Issue number | 28 | 4 |
| Pages (from-to) | 518-534 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
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| Abstract | In 1968 Dutch activists launched a campaign focused on cane sugar as a symbol of unfair trading conditions for the global South. The history of the cane sugar campaign from 1968 to 1974 highlights how European integration provided hope for large-scale change and a common target. This led activists to establish European networks and campaigns. Its demise sheds new light on the new social movements’ shift from ‘grand politics’, aimed at a sudden and drastic transformation through global and European politics, towards incremental change by locally targeting specific companies and countries. |
| Document type | Article |
| Language | English |
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https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777319000249
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