Epistemic governance in transnational social movement organisations: the case of Jubilee 2000
Niininen, Anna (2020)
2020
Master's Degree Programme in Global and Transnational Sociology
Yhteiskuntatieteiden tiedekunta - Faculty of Social Sciences
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2020-05-19
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202004243744
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202004243744
Tiivistelmä
This research investigates technologies of a transnational social justice movement organisation Jubilee 2000 as a case. The research builds upon the newly developed theoretical and methodological framework of epistemic governance, which has focused on the analysis of interdependent policy making of nation states and the functions of organisations as epistemic capital. The theoretical base of epistemic governance stems from a constructionist neoinstitutionalist perspective borne of the neoliberal turn after the late 1970s, and more specifically, from its contemporary branch of sociological institutionalism. Theoretical focus is thus on non coercive strategic power plays that are performed through different level interest group organisations from all sectors influencing global trends and global models; e.g. neoliberalism, human rights and other socially constructed conceptions of actors about the conditions of the social world.
The case of Jubilee 2000 is analysed as an in-depth case study. A theory based analysis and a critical discourse analysis inclusive to a methodological framework of epistemic governance is used to uncover its advocacy strategies and authority building processes. A theory based methodological model is thus tested and used to explain a connection between Jubilee 2000s and epistemic governance, and to explain how the campaign accumulated enough authority to establish itself as a relevant player in the global political field.
The research offers a pragmatic approach in a form of a case study analysis about the role and power mechanisms of transnational social movement organisations to the on-going study and development of theoretical and methodological framework of epistemic governance. It also provides a new theoretical perspective to current structuralist and social movement theory explanations about the Jubilee 2000 phenomena by providing deeper vision based on culture of what was at the core of Jubilee 2000 ́s story of success.
The case of Jubilee 2000 is analysed as an in-depth case study. A theory based analysis and a critical discourse analysis inclusive to a methodological framework of epistemic governance is used to uncover its advocacy strategies and authority building processes. A theory based methodological model is thus tested and used to explain a connection between Jubilee 2000s and epistemic governance, and to explain how the campaign accumulated enough authority to establish itself as a relevant player in the global political field.
The research offers a pragmatic approach in a form of a case study analysis about the role and power mechanisms of transnational social movement organisations to the on-going study and development of theoretical and methodological framework of epistemic governance. It also provides a new theoretical perspective to current structuralist and social movement theory explanations about the Jubilee 2000 phenomena by providing deeper vision based on culture of what was at the core of Jubilee 2000 ́s story of success.