Conclusion

Abstract

This chapter concludes the book by returning to the questions raised in the Introduction about the composition, impact and sustainability of the communities of concern that are invoked in and through mediatised environmental protest. Who is ‘here’, how and to what outcomes for the places and people resourcing transnational trade? Is the creation of these communities a pre-condition for political visibility of issues? What happens to those places and conflicts that go unnoticed by influential distant outsiders? Or are these global ‘communities of concern’ simply spectres, conjured to scare corporations and governments into shifting their practices?