Internet and Women's Activism in Afghanistan

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This paper discusses the role of the internet in the transnational mobilization of women's movements in Afghan using as a specific case study a set of seminars sponsored by US women activists and intended to support women's political activism. The main argument of this paper is that the internet is a key component in transnational organizing.

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"The current study on social change emphasizes the importance of transnational advocacy networks and a globalizing civil society, in which borders between states become permeable to international political activism (Keck and Sikkink 1998; Della Porta, Kriesi, and Rucht 1999; Tarrow 1999). Such transnational organizing has blossomed within the women's movement, as elsewhere, and has affected the types of resources available to activists. Efforts to produce change in gender relations can now rely heavily on elite and expert social networks, in which women's organizing has become increasingly professionalized and "NGO-ized" (Alvarez 1997; Ray 1999; Silliman 1999). Local feminist activists now participate self-consciously in international forums, and construct a women's movement understood as being both local and global (Bystydzienski and Sekhon 1999)."

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