TY - JOUR
T1 - Goodbye to Grand Politics
T2 - The Cane Sugar Campaign and the Limits of Transnational Activism, 1968-1974
AU - Van Dam, Peter
PY - 2019/11/1
Y1 - 2019/11/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0960777319000249
DO - 10.1017/S0960777319000249
M3 - Article
SN - 0960-7773
VL - 28
SP - 518
EP - 534
JO - Contemporary European History
JF - Contemporary European History
IS - 4
ER -