{"id":5665,"date":"2023-06-09T13:56:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T03:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=5665"},"modified":"2023-06-09T13:56:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T03:56:23","slug":"publication-erin-obrien-why-we-need-to-embrace-political-investorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2023\/06\/09\/publication-erin-obrien-why-we-need-to-embrace-political-investorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Publication:  Erin O&#8217;Brien &#8211; &#8220;Why we need to embrace political investorism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QUT Centre for Justice member Dr Erin O&#8217;Brien has had a blog published on the European Consortium for Political Research\u2019s public site \u2013 The Loop &#8211; titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/theloop.ecpr.eu\/why-we-need-to-embrace-political-investorism\/\">&#8220;Why we need to embrace political investorism&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Investors\u2019 political participation goes well beyond the traditional model of shareholder activism at AGMs. Yet the diversity of investors\u2019 participation is not well recognised or conceptualised. <strong>Erin O\u2019Brien\u00a0<\/strong>argues for the adoption of \u2018political investorism\u2019 to capture diverse forms of investors\u2019 political participation, and to distinguish between consumers and investors as political actors&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Erin is an Associate Professor and ARC DECRA Fellow in the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology. Her research examines political activism, advocacy, and participation with a focus on political consumerism.\u00a0\u00a0Dr O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s current research examines the political mobilisation of consumers, shareholders and investors on a range of social justice issues including modern slavery and environmental degradation.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Erin and her research <a href=\"https:\/\/research.qut.edu.au\/centre-for-justice\/our-people\/erin-obrien\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUT Centre for Justice member Dr Erin O&#8217;Brien has had a blog published on the European Consortium for Political Research\u2019s public site \u2013 The Loop &#8211; titled, &#8220;Why we need to embrace political investorism&#8221; &#8220;Investors\u2019 political participation goes well beyond the traditional model of shareholder activism at AGMs. Yet the diversity of investors\u2019 participation is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4341,"featured_media":5425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9696],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-publications"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5667,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions\/5667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}