{"id":1126,"date":"2012-03-08T12:17:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T12:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/&#038;p=1126"},"modified":"2015-10-13T19:45:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T19:45:30","slug":"kony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2012\/03\/08\/kony\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Kony, Invisible Children, and International Activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='citation'>\n    <span class='authors'>Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn A. Sikkink, <\/span><span class='link'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornellpress.cornell.edu\/book\/?GCOI=80140100369430\"><em>Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics<\/em>,<\/a><\/span><span class='year'> 1998<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Despite complaints about the organization behind the purposefully viral campaign to raise awareness about the Ugandan atrocities perpetrated by Joseph Kony (a number of which have been catalogued <a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5891269\/think-twice-before-donating-to-kony-2012-the-meme-du-jour\">here<\/a>), it&#8217;s clear that Invisible Children has been incredibly effective in gaining visibility for their cause. Look to Keck and Sikkink&#8217;s classic work to examine other activist networks and gain a better understanding of the information, symbols, leverage, and accountability these networks use to gain power in the international sphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn A. Sikkink, Activists Beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics, 1998 Despite complaints about the organization behind the purposefully viral campaign to raise awareness about the Ugandan atrocities perpetrated by Joseph Kony (a number of which have been catalogued here), it&#8217;s clear that Invisible Children has been incredibly effective in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,15,85],"tags":[46,14907,1075,45,295,3844],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-culture","category-politics","tag-activism","tag-sociology-of-culture","tag-genocide","tag-social-movements","tag-social-networks","tag-uganda"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8349,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions\/8349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}