What is it about?
This article analyzes the dynamics of SSTANs through the case of an environmental campaign against Brazilian hydropower projects proposed in the Peruvian Amazon.
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Why is it important?
It demonstrates how Southern actors are mobilizing against new and emerging patterns of South–South cooperation, which, despite occurring on unfamiliar institutional terrain, reproduces familiar asymmetrical power relations and socioenvironmental burdens.
Perspectives
South–South transnational advocacy networks (SSTANs) targeting emerging states, Southern companies, and their supporting institutions warrant nuanced distinctions from traditional transnational advocacy networks that are heavily reliant on Northern actors and targets, particularly in terms of the strategies and arguments they employ.
Professor Eduardo Viola
University of Brasilia
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This page is a summary of: South–South Transnational Advocacy: Mobilizing Against Brazilian Dams in the Peruvian Amazon, Global Environmental Politics, January 2019, The MIT Press,
DOI: 10.1162/glep_a_00495.
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