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  1. A Poet's Revolution
    The Life of Denise Levertov
    Author: Hollenberg, Donna
    Published: [2013]; ©2013
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    This first full-length biography of Anglo- American poet and activist Denise Levertov (1923-1997) brings to life one of the major voices of the second half of the twentieth century, when American poetry was a powerful influence worldwide. Drawing on... more

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    This first full-length biography of Anglo- American poet and activist Denise Levertov (1923-1997) brings to life one of the major voices of the second half of the twentieth century, when American poetry was a powerful influence worldwide. Drawing on exhaustive archival research and interviews with 75 friends of Levertov, as well as on Levertov’s entire opus, Donna Krolik Hollenberg’s authoritative biography captures the full complexity of Levertov as both woman and artist, and the dynamic world she inhabited. She charts Levertov’s early life in England as the daughter of a Russian Hasidic father and a Welsh mother, her experience as a nurse in London during WWII, her marriage to an American after the war, and her move to New York City where she became a major figure in the American poetry scene. The author chronicles Levertov’s role as a passionate social activist in volatile times and her importance as a teacher of writing. Finally, Hollenberg shows how the spiritual dimension of Levertov’s poetry deepened toward the end of her life, so that her final volumes link lyric perception with political and religious commitment

     
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  2. Identity Turn: Managing Decolonialization and Identity Politics in the Study of Religion
    Author: Borup, Jørn
    Published: 2022

    The academic study of religion, with its concepts and theories that originate in a Western, Protestant context, has justly been criticized in postmodern and identity-focused discourses, in recent years under the umbrella of decolonization and social... more

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    The academic study of religion, with its concepts and theories that originate in a Western, Protestant context, has justly been criticized in postmodern and identity-focused discourses, in recent years under the umbrella of decolonization and social justice activism. It has been suggested that allegedly universally-applicable theories and methodologies are relativized and revealed as particularized Eurocentrism in the hegemonic representations of “white” or “Western” power regimes. While acknowledging such reorientations in the philosophy, sociology, psychology, and history of religion, this article also critically investigates and discusses the “critical study of religion.” It is suggested that the revisionist deconstruction emphasized by contemporary identity perspectives, with their discourses of difference and re-essentialized understandings of religion and culture, are not only problematic as theoretical orientations. Radical identity politics also imply methodological constraints on the academic study of religion, where comparison, analytical categories, and reflexive emic–etic distinctions must remain key factors.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Article (journal)
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Method & theory in the study of religion; Leiden : Brill, 1989; 34(2022), 1/2, Seite 162-181; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: social activism; race; decolonization; identity politics
  3. Firms under pressure: international trade and social activism
    Author: Löhnert, Claudius
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Universität Passau, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, [Passau]

    Activists denouncing firms for what they consider unethical conduct (e.g., poor treatment of labor or practices that are harmful to the environment) often pressure firms through consumer boycotts. This paper presents a model of international trade... more

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    Activists denouncing firms for what they consider unethical conduct (e.g., poor treatment of labor or practices that are harmful to the environment) often pressure firms through consumer boycotts. This paper presents a model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and endogenous campaigns conducted by social activists. Being the target of campaigns damages the reputation of a firm, reducing the perceived quality and therefore sales of its variety. Campaigns require funding by consumers who support the activists' mission. The paper analyzes the effect of such demand-reducing campaigns on firms. It identifies a feedback effect of campaigns that increases mark-ups in the presence of social activism, which stems from large firms attracting more campaigns while campaigns also decrease sales. The paper further shows that social activism reduces the elasticity of bilateral trade flows with respect to trade costs.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
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    hdl: 10419/251767
    Series: Array ; Nr. V-87 (22)
    Subjects: international trade; heterogeneous firms; gravity; consumer boycotts; NGOs; campaigns; social activism
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 45 Seiten)
  4. Plausible deniability: integration vs. outsourcing with heterogeneous firms and unethical suppliers
    Author: Löhnert, Claudius
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Universität Passau, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, [Passau]

    This paper presents a property rights model of the international organization of production, where heterogeneous headquarter firms source from suppliers in the Global South. Due to weak regulatory stringency in the Global South, suppliers can employ... more

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    This paper presents a property rights model of the international organization of production, where heterogeneous headquarter firms source from suppliers in the Global South. Due to weak regulatory stringency in the Global South, suppliers can employ a cost-saving technology. Consumers, however, consider this technology as unethical and may therefore participate in a consumer boycott, if they consider a firm to be responsible for its supplier's conduct. The paper analyzes how the international organization of production and the choice of technology interact with each other as well as sectoral characteristics. It identifies three mechanisms that govern whether integration is preferred by high-productivity firms in a given sector: the Antràs mechanism (severity of underinvestment by headquarter vs. supplier), the unethical mechanism (cost savings vs. boycott risk) and the deniability mechanism (higher boycott risk under integration than under outsourcing). The equilibrium share of active firms who integrate in a sector increases with productivity dispersion and decreases in the sector's cost advantage of unethical production.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    hdl: 10419/251768
    Series: Array ; Nr. V-88 (22)
    Subjects: international outsourcing; property rights theory; heterogeneousfirms; ethical production; consumer boycotts; NGOs; social activism
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 47 Seiten)
  5. Local global watchdogs
    trade, sourcing and the internationalization of social activism
    Author: Koenig, Pamina; Krautheim, Sebastian; Löhnert, Claudius; Verdier, Thierry
    Published: May 2021
    Publisher:  CESifo, Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute, Munich, Germany

    NGO campaigns against firms with value chains involving production in developing and emerging economies are a salient feature of economic globalization. What determines the patterns of the internationalization of NGO campaigns? Stylized facts... more

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    NGO campaigns against firms with value chains involving production in developing and emerging economies are a salient feature of economic globalization. What determines the patterns of the internationalization of NGO campaigns? Stylized facts obtained from recently available data containing 102 532 campaigns by 4 343 NGOs targeting 11 429 firms from 145 countries guide our theoretical analysis. We propose a model of global sourcing and international trade in which heterogeneous NGOs campaign against heterogeneous firms in response to infringements along their international value chains. We find that campaigns are determined by a triadic gravity equation, i.e. bilateral trade costs between the country of the NGO, the country of the firm and the sourcing country affect campaigns. Most notably, the latter implies that by advancing the internationalization of production, falling trade costs boost the internationalization of NGO campaigns. We use our data to estimate the NGO level triadic gravity equation implied by our model and find strong support for our predictions.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    hdl: 10419/235438
    Series: CESifo working paper ; no. 9068 (2021)
    Subjects: international trade; international sourcing; gravity; NGOs; campaigns; social activism
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 43 Seiten), Illustrationen
  6. Local global watchdogs: trade, sourcing and the internationalization of social activism
    Author: Koenig, Pamina; Krautheim, Sebastian; Löhnert, Claudius; Verdier, Thierry
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  Universität Passau, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, [Passau]

    International NGO campaigns criticizing firms for infringements along their internationalized value chains are a salient feature of economic globalization. We argue that understanding the international patterns of NGO campaigns requires accounting... more

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    International NGO campaigns criticizing firms for infringements along their internationalized value chains are a salient feature of economic globalization. We argue that understanding the international patterns of NGO campaigns requires accounting for the geography of their targets' economic activities. We propose a model of global sourcing and international trade in which heterogeneous NGOs campaign against heterogeneous firms in response to infringements along their international value chains. We find that campaigns are determined by a triadic gravity equation where all three bilateral trade costs matter for NGO campaigns. Importantly, the sourcing trade costs between the supplier and the firm, which do not involve the country of the NGO, shape the patterns of NGO campaigns through their effect on the sourcing decision of firms. We use recently available data on NGO campaigns to estimate our triadic gravity equation and find strong support for this prediction.

     
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    hdl: 10419/248250
    Edition: This Version: November 2021
    Series: Array ; Nr. V-86 (21)
    Subjects: international trade; international sourcing; gravity; NGOs; campaigns; social activism
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 55 Seiten), Illustrationen