Inside the Aid/Watch Case: Translating across Political and Legal Activism

Goodman, J

Inside the Aid/Watch Case: Translating across Political and Legal Activism

Goodman, J

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Publisher:: UTS ePress
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011, 3 (3S), pp. 46 - 70
Issue Date:: 2011-01

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dc.contributor.author	Goodman, J https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3211-3416	en_US
dc.date.issued	2011-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2011, 3 (3S), pp. 46 - 70	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1837-5391	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/18938
dc.description.abstract	The article explores the interaction between legal and political strategy in producing social change. It centres on a long-running dispute in Australia over whether charities can have a dominant political purpose. The focus is on the strategising of the small activist charity that successfully pursued the case over a five-year period. As an 'insider' account, the article charts the in-practice process of translating activisms across legal and political fields. With a stress on contingency and agency, the account affirms a 'politics of rights' approach to legal activism. It shows how the case opened-up new grounds for political contestation, and as such offered prospects for 'non-reformist reform'. It also demonstrates how this occurred more by strategic engagement with unintended effects, than necessarily by design.	en_US
dc.publisher	UTS ePress	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal	en_US
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dc.title	Inside the Aid/Watch Case: Translating across Political and Legal Activism	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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Abstract:

The article explores the interaction between legal and political strategy in producing social change. It centres on a long-running dispute in Australia over whether charities can have a dominant political purpose. The focus is on the strategising of the small activist charity that successfully pursued the case over a five-year period. As an 'insider' account, the article charts the in-practice process of translating activisms across legal and political fields. With a stress on contingency and agency, the account affirms a 'politics of rights' approach to legal activism. It shows how the case opened-up new grounds for political contestation, and as such offered prospects for 'non-reformist reform'. It also demonstrates how this occurred more by strategic engagement with unintended effects, than necessarily by design.

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