Globalised Resistance and the Bring Back Our Girls Movement New Dimensions of Transnational Activism

• Main Author: Ajayi, Titilope F
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2025; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa
• Subjects: African; Anthropology; BBOG; Boko Haram; Bring Back Our Girls (Social movement); Bring Back Our Girls Movement; Comparative politics; Development studies; Education; GBV; Gender studies, gender groups; Gender-Based Violence; Higher education, tertiary education; Human rights, civil rights; Interdisciplinary studies; International institutions; International law; International relations; JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls; JBSF11 Feminism and feminist theory; Kidnapping victims-Nigeria-Chibok Local Government Area; Law; Medicine and Nursing; Medicine: general issues; Militarism; Nigeria; Personal and public health / health education; Philosophy; Philosophy and Religion; Political activism / Political engagement; Political control and freedoms; Political Science; Political structure and processes; Politics and government; Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action; Protest; Public health and preventive medicine; Public international law; Public international law: human rights; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Regional / International studies; Resistance; Schoolgirls; Social and political philosophy; Social groups, communities and identities; Social movements-Nigeria-Case studies; Social Science; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; Sociology; Sociology and anthropology; Terrorism; Terrorism, armed struggle; Topics in philosophy; Transnational Activism; Transnationalism; Transnationalization; Violence In Society; War on Terror; Warfare and defence; Women-Political activity-Nigeria-Case studies; Women’s Movements; World; Women's Movements; Bring Back Our Girls Movement; Militarism; BBOG; Transnationalization; Gender-Based Violence; Resistance; War on Terror; Protest; Transnationalism; Transnational Activism; Boko Haram; GBV; Schoolgirls; Nigeria
• ISBN: 9781032679730; 1032679735; 9781032679723; 1032679727; 1040264859; 1032679743; 9781040264850; 9781032679747
• DOI: 10.4324/9781032679747

This book uncovers how women’s movements in the Global South are changing the face of transnational activism in their mobilisations against militarism and conflict-related gender violence. Drawing on the case study of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) movement established by Nigerian women for the rescue of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted in 2014 by violent extremist group Boko Haram, the book argues that BBOG is one of several emerging forms of transnational resistance in Africa that are breaking old moulds and forging new directions for social movements globally. The book argues that current research on social movements focuses too much on professional advocacy by formal civil society organisations and networks in the Global North. In doing so, it misses the increasingly spontaneous, mass-based protests initiated and led by Global South actors grounded in Global South contexts. Unpacking the workings of the BBOG movement, both internationally and regarding on-the-ground daily struggles in Nigeria, the book highlights their considerable implications for the practice and study of international politics. This book is an important read for researchers of international relations, decolonisation, social movements, and transnational human rights activism. Activists and leaders of social movements will also find the policy implications highlighted by the book useful.