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National District (Sakha Republic), The Indigenous Women's Collectives, and Sardana Nikolaeva. "Plurality of Activisms." sibirica 22, no. 1 (March 1, 2023): 128–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/sib.2023.220107.
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Abstract Indigenous women's activism occupies a specific niche within local and global Indigenous politics and plays a particularly important role in the socio-cultural and political development of Indigenous communities. In this regard, it is vital to explore not only activist strategies of grassroots Indigenous women's organizing but also their histories, contexts, and activist scopes. The women's collectives in the Olenek Evenki National District of the Sakha Republic (Russian Federation) have a long history of cultural and political activism. In this photo-essay, we aim to narrativize women's activism in Olenek as well as visually represent the activists themselves. Through the photos and the analytical narratives complimenting them, we also want to explore distinct (and diverse) articulations of Indigenous identities and of Indigenous activisms in the post-Soviet Indigenous Arctic.
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Mitchell, Claudia. "A Girl Activist Inventory." Girlhood Studies 13, no. 2 (June 1, 2020): v—vi. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2020.130201.
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In March 2019, I had the pleasure of giving a talk at Peter Green College at the University of British Columbia that I called “The Politics and Possibilities of Girl-led and Youth-led Arts-based Activism to Address Gender Violence.” I wanted to highlight in particular the activist work of numerous groups of Indigenous girls and young women in a current project and the youth AIDS activist work of the Fire and Hope project in South Africa but I also wanted to place this work in the context of girls’ activism and youth activism more broadly. To do this I started out with a short activity called “Know your Girl Activist” during which I showed PowerPoint photos of some key girl and young women activists of the last few years, and asked the audience if they could identify them. The activists included two Nobel Prize Peace Prize winners, Malala Yousafzai (2014) and Nadia Murad (2018) along with Autumn Pelletier, the young Indigenous woman from Northern Ontario, Canada, well known for her work on water activism, and, of course, Greta Thunberg, now a household name but then, in 2019, already well known for her work on climate change activism. To my surprise only some of these activists were recognized, so, during the Q and A session, when I was asked if there is a history of girls as activists I could see that this question indicated clearly the urgent need for this special issue of Girlhood Studies which was only just in process then. Now, thanks to the dedication of the two guest editors of this special issue, Catherine Vanner and Anuradha Dugal and the wide range of superb contributors, I can point confidently to girls’ activism as a burgeoning area of study in contemporary feminism rooted in feminist history.
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Clark, Wayne, Usman Khan, and Peter McLaverty. "Reformulating activism, reformulating the activist." Policy & Politics 30, no. 4 (October 1, 2002): 455–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/030557302760590314.
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Vromen, Ariadne. "Community–Based Activism and Change: The Cases of Sydney and Toronto." City & Community 2, no. 1 (March 2003): 47–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1540-6040.00038.
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How do community–based political activists justify the ongoing effectiveness of their chosen location for political activity? How do they describe the shifts in relationships between community–development activism and the state? This article presents findings from case studies undertaken with two community–development organizations based in Sydney, Australia, and Toronto, Canada. The focus of the analysis is 40 in–depth interviews conducted with activists in the late 1990s. The article details how the activists describe the present realities for community–development activism and what they conceptualize as the future for their field of political action. It is argued that by appreciating how activists substantiate the relevance of community–development activism in periods of economic, political, and social change we are able to build a notion of participation that is inclusive of, rather than critical of, everyday activist experiences.
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Oxley, Julinna C. "How to Be a (Good) Philosopher-Activist." Essays in Philosophy 21, no. 1 (2020): 6–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/eip2020211/22.
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Can philosophers be good activists? This essay defines activism for the philosopher and then provides a normative conception of a good philosopher-activist that is grounded in rational integrity and sound rational deliberation. I argue that because philosophers have been trained in reasoning and argumentation, they can contribute these skills to an activist movement. An activist with rational integrity exhibits five skills or virtues: they are honest, rational, logical, deliberative, and respectful. Conversely, bad philosopher-activists display five vices: they are dishonest, manipulative, obfuscating, thoughtless, and insulting. Next, I argue that rhetorical and reasoning skills are only part of what define good activism, and describe the soft skills needed for effective activism. Philosophical training sometimes works against the development of these soft skills, but they are critical to the success of the philosopher-activist. I conclude by describing activism within the context of academic life and argue that philosophers who engage in activism can do so in an intellectually responsible way.
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Fiorito, Jack, Daniel Tope, Philip E. Steinberg, Irene Padavic, and Caroline E. Murphy. "Lay Activism and Activism Intentions in a Faculty Union." Labor Studies Journal 36, no. 4 (October 3, 2011): 483–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0160449x11422609.
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Prior conceptual work on union renewal places activism in a central role. Understanding of activism’s antecedents, however, remains limited. This study uses a sample of faculty union members at a large public university, thus providing considerable diversity in work settings within a single employer organization. Using survey and archival data, this study explores the role of selected contextual factors on faculty labor activism. A tentative but interesting finding is that linkages to other activists appear to be a stronger predictor of individual activism than does departmental membership density. That is, it seems that “subcultures of apathy” can exist in even high membership density settings and that social ties to activists may spur members to heightened levels of activism.
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Adae, Eric Kwame. "Weightier Matters." Janus Head 19, no. 1 (2021): 39–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jh20211914.
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Trendwatchers have spotted some seismic shifts in relations between business and politics. Particularly, Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) are increasingly weighing in on greater good issues. Although a global phenomenon, current CEO activism scholarship reflects a Western focus; an ideological bias for modernist perspectives; a preponderance of White male CEO voices, and the relative elision of female activist CEOs. While, generally, no empirically-based typology of the sociopolitical issues that matter to activist CEOs exists, the specific range of causes of particular concern to non-Western CEO activists is neatly absent. This paper addresses all of these concerns, offering an inquiry into the emerging CEO activism phenomenon in the Ghanaian non-Western sociocultural milieu. Data collection entailed three separate rounds of fieldwork that saw long interviews with a corps of 24 self-identified informants, featuring an even split of men and women activist CEOs. The hermeneutic phenomenological theme-based approach guided data analysis. Following extant brand activism models, a typology of six clusters of CEO activism issues is offered that highlights the weightier matters of sociocultural activism, environmental activism, business/workplace activism, political activism, legal activism, and economic activism. Sociocultural issues include Ghana’s fight against COVID-19, where activist CEOs pooled resources to construct and equip a new multimillion dollar 100-bed infectious diseases hospital facility, embarked on risk communication campaigns, donated critical health supplies, funded the screening and testing of employees, provided food and essential supplies to vulnerable groups, and called out the government for lapses in the management of this health crisis. Besides internationalizing CEO activism studies for the strategic communications, leadership, business ethics and responsible management fields, the results suggest the need to consider the perspectives of CEO activists in non- Western societies. This paper contributes mainly to current discussions in CEO activism (aka corporate social advocacy) and brand activism. It contributes to other theoretical and conceptual streams, including covenantal notions of public relations, Caritas, Ubuntu Philosophy, Africapitalism, and postmodern values in strategic communication. This paper contributes to the upper echelon perspective; insider activism; sustainability transitions; and current discussions concerning how to address issues of diversity, equity, inclusivity, and social justice in the public relations literature. Policy implications are laid out, and areas for future research are indicated.
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Tiidenberg, Katrin, and Airi-Alina Allaste. "LGBT activism in Estonia: Identities, enactment and perceptions of LGBT people." Sexualities 23, no. 3 (November 20, 2018): 307–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460718797262.
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This article explores how Estonian LGBT activists make sense of their own activism. We analyze the activists’ perceptions of their activism, their identities and how those identities are deployed for action. All of these are, in turn, situated in how activists understand the broader Estonian LGBT community, and Estonian society’s historico-politically complex relationship with activism as such. The article is theoretically grounded within the new social movement theories and theories of emergent LGBT and activist identities. The analyzed material consists of interviews, observations, documents and meeting notes gathered via ethnographic fieldwork with Estonian LGBT activists in 2012–2013. Pragmatic and iterative qualitative analysis revealed that the activists studied resist the activist identity, and perceive there to be a weak collective identity among the broader Estonian LGBT population. However, the lobbying for the Registered Partnership Law (passed in 2014) brought a shift in LGBT activists’ ways of enacting their identities and their perception of the possibility of LGBT activism in Estonia.
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Jusfayana, Yuthika, and Joevarian Hudiyana. "Self-Worth of Social-Political Activists: Theoretical Framework and Systematic Review." Psikologika: Jurnal Pemikiran dan Penelitian Psikologi 28, no. 2 (September 26, 2023): 321–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.20885/psikologika.vol28.iss2.art10.
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Activists are dedicated individuals who endeavor to create a substantial and significant influence on pivotal social issues. Their endeavors are propelled by a multitude of diverse factors, including aspects such as social identity, perceptions of fairness, efficacy, and other relevant considerations. These factors lead them to engage in a process of internalization within the collective group they are part of, shaping their sense of self-worth. However, the motivation to achieve self-worth is not always the predominant focus in existing study. Therefore, this study aimed to explained the context of activists’ self-worth through the framework of the Quest for Significance (QFS) theory, employing a systematic literature review method. The systematic literature review follows the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic and Meta-analysis (PRISMA) protocol, utilizing keywords such as “political activism,” “personal significance,” “fulfilling life activism,” “meaningful activist,” and “activist experience.” The platforms searched include Google Scholar, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and Sage Journal. During the screening stage, journals that met the criteria related to social-political activism and the activation processes of the QFS (significance gain and significance loss) were carefully selected. The study identified key theme concerning the self-worth of activists, such as the role of activism as a coping mechanism, the positive outcomes of activism, the impact of relationships on activist, and challenges inherent in activism.
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Roberts, Tangela. "African Americans and Activism." Journal for Social Action in Counseling & Psychology 15, no. 1 (August 31, 2023): 14–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/jsacp.15.1.14-31.
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This study aimed to investigate the relationship between psychological well-being and PTSD symptoms in relation to activism orientations among African Americans. Additionally, the study explored the moderating roles of activist self-identity and length of activism involvement in these relationships. A national sample of 298 African American adults was examined, and the following findings were observed: African Americans with a greater inclination toward conventional activism reported higher levels of psychological well-being. Those who self-identified as activists displayed a nearly fourfold decrease in PTSD symptoms. Moreover, older African Americans showed decreased PTSD symptoms and increased psychological well-being compared to younger adults, while African American females reported higher levels of psychological well-being compared to males. Neither high-risk activist orientation nor activist self-identification significantly contributed to the prediction of PTSD symptoms or psychological well-being. Additionally, African American females and older adults with longer durations of involvement in activist organizations reported higher levels of psychological well-being. These findings emphasize the importance of considering age, sex, and duration of activist involvement as contributing factors in understanding variations in mental health. The clinical and community implications of these findings are further discussed.
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Kaun, Anne, and Julie Uldam. "Digital activism: After the hype." New Media & Society 20, no. 6 (September 19, 2017): 2099–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444817731924.
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Research on digital activism has gained traction in recent years. At the same time, it remains a diverse and open field that lacks a coherent mode of inquiry. For the better or worse, digital activism remains a fuzzy term. In this introduction to a special issue on digital activism, we review current attempts to periodize and historicize digital activism. Although there is growing body of research on digitial activism, many contributions remain limited through their ahistorical approach and the digital universalism that they imply. Based on the contributions to the special issue, we argue for studying digital activisms in a way that traverses a two-dimensional axis of digital technologies and activist practices, striking the balance between context and media-specificity.
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Perkins, Tracy E. "Women’s Pathways Into Activism." Organization & Environment 25, no. 1 (March 2012): 76–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1086026612445390.
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This article explores women’s pathways to participation in environmental justice advocacy in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Many scholars find that women become environmental justice activists according to a common set of experiences in which apolitical women personally experience an environmental problem that launches them into a life activism to protect the health of their families. Although a small group of the 25 women the author interviewed fit this description, overall the interviews reveal a much more diverse array of paths into environmental justice activism. The author’s data complicate the idea that environmental justice activism is the first political activity for most women environmental justice activists and that they are motivated to become activists primarily in order to protect the health of their families. The author discusses the significance of these findings and concludes with a call for scholars to revisit the question of women’s pathways into environmental justice activism.
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Conde, Marta. "From activism to science and from science to activism in environmental-health justice conflicts." Journal of Science Communication 14, no. 02 (June 11, 2015): C04. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.14020304.
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Knowledge is not static or unique. It can be exchanged between activists, academia and policy circles: from science to activism and from activism to science. Existing scientific knowledge is being used by activists to expose wrongdoings or improve practices and knowledge in environmental and health conflicts. Activists can either adopt scientific knowledge and data in their own argumentations or produce new scientific knowledge either by becoming scientists themselves or in co-operation with experts. Local and scientific knowledge is being combined to challenge government policies and the knowledge produced by corporate actors. Also explored is the figure of the expert-activist; with scientists becoming activists and vice versa, the boundaries between activists and scientists are increasingly blurry.
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Taha, Diane, Sally O. Hastings, and Elizabeth M. Minei. "Shaping Student Activists: Discursive Sensemaking of Activism and Participation Research." Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 15, no. 6 (December 27, 2015): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.14434/josotl.v15i6.13820.
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As social media becomes a more potent force in society, particularly for younger generations, the role in activism has been contested. This qualitative study examines 35 interviews with students regarding their perceptions of the use of social media in social change, their perceptions of activists, and their level of self-identification as an activist. Data suggest that students use media to engage in offline participation in activist causes, because offline presents a “safe” place to begin their involvement. Findings also point to the unified pejorative connotations of the term “activist”, yet also demonstrate ways that students transform the negative stereotype of activists in a way that creates a more positive image of activists. Most participants in the study were able to see sufficient positive characteristics in behaviors they associated with activism to prompt the students to identify themselves as “activists” or “aspiring activists”. We offer 3 practical recommendations for teachers who seek to increase service learning vis a vis activism in their classrooms.
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Kluch, Yannick. "“My Story Is My Activism!”: (Re-)Definitions of Social Justice Activism Among Collegiate Athlete Activists." Communication & Sport 8, no. 4-5 (January 7, 2020): 566–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2167479519897288.
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Despite the recent re-emergence of the athlete activist into public consciousness, activism among athletes continues to be viewed as nonnormative behavior. Drawing from interviews with 31 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I collegiate athlete activists from across the United States, this study examined contemporary definitions of collegiate athlete activism for advancing social justice efforts. Five different conceptualizations of social justice activism emerged during the interviews: activism as social justice action, mentorship, authenticity, intervention, and public acts of resistance. Findings document changing notions of athlete activism and reveal nuanced forms of situational activism that do not rely on public expressions of resistance but rather are woven carefully into the fabric that makes up the athletes’ everyday lives. For these athletes, the image of an activist is not so much that of one walking in the streets but rather that of one using the social power they have as an athlete to promote strategic change in everyday situations. Limitations, directions for future research, and implications for praxis are discussed.
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Redmond, Lucille, Shane White, Toby Harnden, Jack Holland, and Chris Ryder. "Activism." Books Ireland, no. 237 (2001): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20632259.
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Shuai, Yong. "Activism." CFA Digest 41, no. 4 (November 2011): 29–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2469/dig.v41.n4.7.
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Marchetti, Gina. "Activism." Journal of Chinese Cinemas 10, no. 1 (January 2, 2016): 4–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17508061.2016.1144705.
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Greenspan, Alan. "Activism." International Finance 14, no. 1 (March 2, 2011): 165–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2362.2011.01277.x.
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Wilson, Betty. "Literature and Activism, Literature as Activism." Caribbean Quarterly 66, no. 3 (July 2, 2020): 405–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00086495.2020.1802873.
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Dufour, Kirsten. "Art as Activism, Activism as Art." Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 24, no. 1-2 (January 1, 2002): 157–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10714410212914.
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Young, Glen M. "Under the spotlight: How media coverage impacts shareholder activism campaigns." Corporate Ownership and Control 21, no. 2 (2024): 70–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.22495/cocv21i2art6.
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This study provides novel evidence on the strategic role of media coverage in influencing shareholder activism campaigns. Analyzing a comprehensive dataset of activist interventions from 2000–2014, we find activists strategically target firms with high levels of recent business press coverage, especially negative coverage. These findings support theoretical predictions that activists prefer transparent, poorly performing firms. We also find a positive association between pre intervention press coverage and the likelihood an activism campaign receives coverage. This “sticky” media coverage effect suggests activists target visible firms to increase campaign exposure. Finally, using propensity score matching and regression analysis, we show activist campaigns receiving press coverage have significantly higher announcement returns, underscoring a key benefit of media coverage for activists. Overall, our results highlight the important interplay between media coverage, shareholder activists, and capital markets. The findings should interest managers seeking to assess activism risk and activists aiming to maximize campaign impact.
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Kirwan, Jordan. "Experiences of academic-activists in Ireland: comfortable and uncomfortable activism in the current institutional environment." Journal of Working-Class Studies 8, no. 1 (July 3, 2023): 25–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.13001/jwcs.v8i1.8037.
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While there is a lack of academic-activist themed literature within the Irish context, it is evident that academic-activism is becoming an increasingly relevant topic given this period of undoubtable social change. The emergence of literature depicting academia as an unsupportive environment suggests that activism is not supported in a higher educational setting. This paper draws on the experiences of 33 Irish-based academic-activists and investigates the concepts of comfortable and uncomfortable academic-activism which were identified during the analysis. By exploring the experiences of academic-activists at varying career stages, this article argues that an academic’s ability to exercise academic freedom is influenced by the type of activism, the sociopolitical identity of the individual and the institutional environment. Overall, this paper offers interesting comparisons between disadvantaged/marginalised academic-activists in comparison to those in more privileged positions.
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De Ridder, Matthijs. ""Ook een politieke invloed moet van onze Alma Mater uitgaan". Staatkunde en activisme bij Robert Van Genechten." WT. Tijdschrift over de geschiedenis van de Vlaamse beweging 70, no. 2 (July 4, 2011): 172–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.21825/wt.v70i2.12320.
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Hoewel er geen twijfel over mogelijk is dat het activisme een weinig democratische beweging was, laat een analyse van de ‘Staatkundige kroniek’ van Robert Van Genechten zien dat het staatkundige denken van de activisten veel complexer is dan tot nut toe werd aangenomen. Opportunisme is maar een van de vele facetten van het activistische denken. Voor een beter begrip van de collaboratie tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog kan een onderzoek naar het discours van het activisme – in nationaal én internationaal verband – dan ook voor veel nuancerende inzichten zorgen.________“Our Alma Mater should also exert a political influence”. Political science and activism by Robert Van GenechtenAlthough we cannot doubt that activism was hardly a democratic movement, an analysis of the ‘Political chronicle’ by Robert Van Genechten demonstrates that the political thinking of the activists is far more complex than had so far been assumed. Opportunism is only one of the many facets of activist thinking. To gain a better understanding of the collaboration during the First World War, an investigation of the discourse of activism – both in the national and in the international context – could therefore provide much more differentiated insights.
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Lev-On, Azi. "Ad-hoc activism: Characteristics of administrators of activist groups on social media." International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics 19, no. 2 (September 1, 2023): 183–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/macp_00080_1.
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What characterizes the administrators (or admins) of social media groups dedicated to social change and protest against institutional injustices? The article analyses the characteristics of such admins using the activism for justice for Roman Zadorov in Israel as a case study. The findings demonstrate a phenomenon of ‘ad-hoc activism’: The background of the admins is heterogeneous, with most having no history of activism before their involvement in the activism for justice for Zadorov. In addition, these admins have negligible involvement other activism causes – they gather ‘ad hoc’ only through justice for Zadorov activism. The socio-demographic and other characteristics of the admins are discussed. Implications regarding the character of contemporary online activism and of the people leading it are discussed.
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Benton, Richard A., and Jihae You. "Governance monitors or market rebels? Heterogeneity in shareholder activism." Strategic Organization 17, no. 3 (June 2018): 281–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1476127018776482.
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Agency theory is the dominant theory of shareholder activism and argues that activist investors function as external governance monitors. Agency theory predicts that activist investors will tend to target firms who exhibit governance and performance problems. However, given limited resources and time, activist investors must often decide between selecting targets with particularly strong agency and performance problems and those where their activism efforts are most likely to succeed. Social movement scholars point out that, in social movement contexts, the corporate opportunity structure affects when and where activism is likely to arise. We draw on insights from social movement scholarship and agency theory to advance a theory of heterogeneity in shareholder activism. We argue that an activist’s access to power and resources shapes its target selection, particularly the activist’s preference for targeting firms with greater agency problems or where contextual factors favor chances of success. Whereas more powerful activists are able to wield their power as effective governance monitors against firms with substantial agency problems, less powerful activists must strategically select targets of opportunity by choosing firms where contextual factors improve their odds of success. We test these propositions using an innovative relational approach that can simultaneously incorporate firm traits, activist identities, and endogenous dynamics.
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Dhingra, Neil, and Joel D. Miller. "Dependent Rational Activists: Disability, Student Activism, and Special Education." Research Articles 28, no. 2 (October 25, 2021): 110–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1082919ar.
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Historians of student activism have rarely focused on students with disabilities, while educational historians who study students with disabilities have focused on legal reforms, not activism. We present a philosophical argument for an inclusive definition of student activism that can take place within legal and bureaucratic processes in which students act collaboratively with parents or guardians. Drawing on the new disability history and critical disability studies, we first argue that such activism is necessary because those processes routinely involve the conceptual objectification, silencing, and invisibilization of disabled people. Further, we argue that activism is necessary to shift individualized education plan (IEP) meetings from bargaining to collective deliberations for the common good. Finally, following Alasdair MacIntyre, we argue that activism, legal and otherwise, may involve families acting collaboratively, because parents and others can become attentive to the rational reflections of those with disabilities.
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Shingade, Sudam, Shailesh Rastogi, Venkata Mrudula Bhimavarapu, and Abhijit Chirputkar. "Shareholder Activism and Its Impact on Profitability, Return, and Valuation of the Firms in India." Journal of Risk and Financial Management 15, no. 4 (March 23, 2022): 148. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jrfm15040148.
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The paper’s prime objective is to understand the impact of Shareholder activism on firm performance. This study is conducted in a unique setup where traditional activist investors such as pension funds and hedge funds are not present. However, the activism cases are increasing yearly in an emerging economy like India. We have created a comprehensive shareholder activism index (sha index) using multiple activisms and corporate governance factors. To measure firm performance, we have used valuation (Tobin’s Q and Market capitalization), profitability (operating profit margin and net profit margin), and return ratios (Return on capital and return on equity). Panel data analysis (PDA) is employed for the current study as it overcomes the shortcomings of the time series analysis and cross-sectional studies. The sample comprises 37 listed firms’ data for FY2017 to FY2020. Chosen firms have experienced activism instances at least once during the 2017–2020 period. As per our analysis, shareholder activism has a significant negative impact on valuation measured in market capitalization and profitability estimated by operating profit margin. Activism primarily impacts the other four parameters negatively, but it is insignificant. India is in the nascent stage of activism, partly explaining the insignificance of the effects of shareholder activism on firm performance. Also, activist investors are targeting companies. These attacks are not fructifying desired outcomes as promoters own over 50% stake in the listed companies. The latest data for FY2021 has not been considered for the study as covid-19 impacted the businesses during the financial year. Also, we cannot capture activism instances that are not reported in regulatory filings. Unlike past research in this area, we have used a comprehensive activism index as a proxy of activism and have employed PDA instead of event studies to assess the impact on firm performance. Also, this is the first such empirical study conducted in an emerging economy setup where neither large hedge nor pension funds are present.
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Block, Tom. "Prophetic Activist Art: Art Activism Beyond Oppositionality." International Journal of the Arts in Society: Annual Review 3, no. 2 (2008): 19–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1833-1866/cgp/v03i02/35457.
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Krok, Aleksandra, Zofia Kardasz, and Aleksandra M. Rogowska. "Network Analysis of the Association between Minority Stress and Activism in LGB People from Poland." European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education 14, no. 7 (June 21, 2024): 1853–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe14070122.
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(1) Background: This paper presents an analysis of the associations between minority stressors and activism in the population of lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals in Poland. (2) Methods: The cross-sectional online-based research was conducted among 192 lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people in two groups: activists (n = 51) and people not engaged in activism (n = 141). Four scales of the Sexual Minority Stress Scale were used: Internalized Homophobia, Expectation of Rejection, Concealment, and Sexual Minority Negative Events Scale. Activism was measured using the Activism Scale and a single item asking about belonging to an activist group. (3) Results: Activists, lesbians, and gays scored significantly higher in the Sexual Minority Negative Events than people not involved in activism and bisexual individuals. Attitude toward LGBT+ activism correlated weakly and positively with Sexual Minority Negative Events and Expectation of Rejection while negatively with Internalized Homophobia. The Network Analysis showed that positive attitudes toward LGBT+ activism, the expectation of rejection, and negative events in minority stress are the most influential variables in the network model, playing a crucial role in the interaction between particular dimensions of minority stress. (4) Conclusions: Prevention and intervention programs should focus on reducing minority stress, especially negative events and rejection, especially among lesbians, gays, and people engaged in LGBT+ activism. The cooperation of politicians, lawyers, social workers, and psychologists is required to decrease homophobia and the stigmatization of people representing sexual and gender minorities.
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Seethaler, Ina. "Women and Allies in Action: College Students as 'Diversity Workers' in the Activism Classroom." Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning 8, no. 2 (November 26, 2022): 67–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.15402/esj.v8i2.70744.
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Research on feminist pedagogy has analyzed activism-based teaching practices in introductory courses and special topics courses in Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS). Few studies have focused on courses that entirely center on feminist activism and have students implement weeks-long activism projects. In this article, I investigate how we can transfer an activist consciousness to our students, some of whom might not consider themselves feminists, might not have thought of themselves as activists, have not participated in any form of activism, or might be taking a WGS course only for general education or diversity credit. Using data collected in my “Women and Allies in Action” class via surveys, interviews, and analysis of students’ reflective writing, I assess which challenges hold students back and what motivates them to create and implement complex, creative, and sustainable feminist activism projects.
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Frič, Pavol, and Martin Vávra. "Czech civil sector face-to-face with freelance activism." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 36, no. 11/12 (October 10, 2016): 774–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijssp-12-2015-0142.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to answer following question: what is the relationship between member activism performed through civil society organizations (CSOs) and individualized freelance activism (in form of online activism, everyday making, political consumerism or checkbook activism) independent of organizational framework? Is it a relationship of mutual competition or support? Design/methodology/approach Analysis is carried out on data from 2009 questionnaire-based survey on volunteering, representative for adult Czech population. The data set allowed the authors to relate member activism with freelance activism and in case of member activism distinguish the type of organization and the level of its professionalization. Findings Dominant pattern the authors identified in data is mutual support of both types of volunteering documented by significant overlap of these forms of public engagement. The most striking is the overlap for active members of new advocacy NGOs and the weakest for traditional clubs. Regression analysis shows that on an individual level “mixed activism” (compared with “pure freelance activism”) is linked with higher education and higher confidence in civic organizations. Originality/value The civil practice of individualized freelance activism was described and analysed by various authors as an activity of specific types of activist, but there has not yet been any research giving reflection on such a large scale of freelance activism types as in the analysis. The authors set them together in contrast to the member (collective, organized) form of civic activism and also took into account the influence of professionalization and type of CSOs.
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Jones Becton, Yasha, and Rhonda Jeffries. "Energizing activism: Motivating activism within EdD programs." Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice 6, no. 1 (March 11, 2021): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ie.2021.194.
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Christofoletti, Rogério, Salvador De León, and Denis Ruellan. "SOCIAL ACTIVISM, POLITICAL ACTIVISM, AND COMBAT JOURNALISM." Brazilian journalism research 19, no. 3 (December 26, 2023): e1651. http://dx.doi.org/10.25200/bjr.v19n3.2023.1651.
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Mcclure, Christine Lynn. "Creating a Culture of Activism in the Education Doctorate." Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice 6, no. 1 (March 11, 2021): 53–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/ie.2021.128.
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Attempting to combine activism and scholarship would seem natural because most academic research is born out of a deep-rooted desire to change, eradicate, or transform a societal issue. As such, translating research into practice by way of activism would seem conventional for most scholars, because it is “informed by both personal and political values and the need to engage our emotional responses to the world around us” (Derickson & Routledge, 2015, p. 5). However, the elite, “ivory-tower” of the academy is not so accepting of scholar-activists. Perhaps it is because activism places higher education in the cross hairs of the criticisms, critiques, and call-outs that activism seeks to influence. Institutions of higher education have done a mediocre job at cultivating spaces for academics to freely engage in activism, as academics who desire to participate in activism face considerable and specific career-related risks (Flood et al., 2013). Loss of tenure, reduced opportunities for collaboration, decreased funding, isolation, and oftentimes physical threats are but a few strategies used against academics who openly participate in activism. While many activist movements have been birthed on college and university campuses, very few demonstrate a willingness to embrace the causes or individuals involved in these activist movements. As institutions of higher education try to strengthen both the policies and practices related to diversity, equity, and inclusion it is imperative that they also examine the oppressive structures, antiquated hiring practices, and exclusionary curriculum that inhibit the culture of activism from thriving. These three specific areas are the focus for this article.
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Chatterjee, Pratichi, Jenna Condie, Alistair Sisson, and Laura Wynne. "Imploding Activism: Challenges and possibilities of housing scholar-activism." Radical Housing Journal 1, no. 1 (April 4, 2019): 189–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.54825/swae1331.
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This paper traces our scholar-activist work with resident groups that arose in response to the redevelopment of a public housing estate in Sydney, Australia. Over the two-year period of our involvement, the groups’ capacities to contest the redevelopment were gradually destabilised and neutralised by pressure from state actors and through intra-group tensions. In other words, the activism imploded and we were imbricated in that process. In this paper, we apply an autoethnographic method of ‘writing-as-inquiry’, which draws upon our correspondence with one another as data, to chart the challenges and possibilities for academics working within urban activism. Firstly, we are critical of ourselves for treading (too) carefully, which meant that we failed to challenge gendered, racialized and classed group hierarchies, and failed to support more radical and resistant positions to state authorities. Secondly, we highlight the power that individual actors can have to derail an activist group. Place-based activism necessarily means that people of varied political leanings and ideological dispositions will come together. It also means that people of diverse, and sometimes antagonistic personalities, will encounter one another. Thirdly, we point to the hostile and destructive context provided by the neoliberal city and, increasingly, the neoliberal university. We propose that when engaging in activism, academics should determinedly de-centre the self and centralise activist aims as they work to balance the objectives on both sides of the scholar-activist hyphen. We deliberate the role academics can play in mediating the conflicts that arise in activism, and the repercussions of such a direction, which inevitably means accepting the messiness of activism, and as Haraway has put it, ‘staying with the trouble’.
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Mischi, Julian. "Working-class politics and cultural capital: Considerations from transformations of the French left." Sociological Review 67, no. 5 (September 11, 2018): 1034–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038026118797832.
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Cultural capital is a relevant and useful concept for analysing working-class activism, provided that it is not reduced to educational capital and particular attention is given to its incorporated forms. Workers acquire resources from activism that may compensate for their paucity of formal educational qualifications, thus allowing them to build an activism-based cultural capital. From this perspective, the activities of workers who become full-time union officers may be considered as activist work, calling on specific skills and offering possibilities for social ascension that set them apart from their former peers still doing manual work. This analysis of such activist promotion is based on long-term fieldwork among unionised railway workers in a rural town in France. This case study addresses transformations in the worker-activist profile, notably in changed logics for forming activism-based cultural capital and weakened ties drawing activists into the political field. Approaching left-leaning activism ‘from below’ ultimately sheds light on how it is being reshaped and the ever-greater separation of trade union and political party spheres. The study also elucidates the expanding divide between the working classes and political elites that can be observed in many European countries, especially in rural areas.
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Gutman, Yifat. "Looking backward to the future: Counter-memory as oppositional knowledge-production in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict." Current Sociology 65, no. 1 (July 9, 2016): 54–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011392115584644.
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This article examines a strategy of peace activism that gained visibility in the last decades: memory activism. Memory activists manifest a temporal shift in transnational politics: first the past, then the future. Affiliated with the globally-circulating paradigm of historical justice, memory activist groups assume that a new understanding of the past could lead to a new perception of present problems and project alternative solutions for the future. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and discourse analysis among memory activists of the 1948 war in Israel since 2001, the article examines the activist production of counter-memory during active conflict. Using Coy et al.’s typology of oppositional knowledge-production, the article shows how the largest group of memory activism in Israel produced ‘new’ information on the war, critically assessed the dominant historical narrative, offered an alternative shared narrative, and began to envision practical solutions for Palestinian refugees. However, the analysis raises additional concerns that reach beyond the scope of the typology, primarily regarding the unequal power relations that exist not only between the dominant and activist production of oppositional knowledge, but also among activists.
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Mecinska, Lula. "Embodied Online Activism: Breastfeeding Activism (Lactivism) on Facebook." Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network 11, no. 2 (December 11, 2018): 21–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.31165/nk.2018.112.534.
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Online support communities for people with various health problems and related online activist groups have been the focus of scholarly attention for three decades. The arrival of social media increased the popularity and breadth of both phenomena. Breastfeeding online activism represents an interesting case in how it connects the (health) support and activist online presences of breastfeeding women. Furthermore, breastfeeding activism - or lactivism - is a form of embodied activism, often performed through breastfeeding. Stemming from over six years of observant participation in breastfeeding spaces online, this article traces the ways in which lactivists use Facebook to further their cause. From the creation of support groups, through the use of Facebook capabilities to organise action and create structures, to Facebook specific forms of mass action, including image flooding and negrating, I argue that the emergence of lactivism as we know it is intimately connected with, and through, the medium.
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Shivakanth Shetty, A., Nagendra Belavadi Venkataramaiah, and Kerena Anand. "Brand activism and millennials: an empirical investigation into the perception of millennials towards brand activism." Problems and Perspectives in Management 17, no. 4 (December 2, 2019): 163–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/ppm.17(4).2019.14.
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The reckless pursuit of social, environmental, political and cultural issues and brands may alienate the very customer base, whom they try to impress, especially the millennials. Hence, this study intends to study the perceptions of millennials towards brand activism, so that the findings from the study can help the brand managers to steer their brands into the troubled waters of brand activism. The methodology followed is HTAB (Hypothesize, Test, Action, Business), a popular analysis framework given by Ken Black in his book titled “Business Statistics: Contemporary Decision Making (6th ed.)” A sample comprising of 286 respondents was collected. The final data had 286 observations and 45 features across seven categories. It was found that millennials prefer to buy a brand if it supports a cause or purpose and they stop buying if brand behaves unethically. It was also observed that there is no gender difference amongst the millennials towards their perceptions concerning brand activism. Moreover, millennials across different income categories have similar perceptions of brand activism. It was also substantiated that the emotional tie of the millennials with the brand existing for a cause goes beyond price shifts and brands taking a political stance, cherry-picking of issues and being disruptive prompts and creates profound backlash for the brands.
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Blaagaard, Bolette, and Mette Marie Roslyng. "Rethinking digital activism." MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research 38, no. 72 (May 30, 2022): 045–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/mk.v38i72.125721.
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This article explores the following research question: How is political activism expressed in connective, affective, and embodied ways, and how do these modes result in a rearticulation of the body and central activist signifiers? While connective and affective dimensions of digital activism offer invaluable insights into the new forms of activist organisation, it remains underexplored how the activist body and the concepts of “human” and “rights” are discursively produced through digital expressions of activism. Therefore, drawing on a purposive selection of digital content, we produce a discursive analysis of three illustrative cases of digital activism relating to three major political contemporary issues: Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and Extinction Rebellion. We argue that they each present different modes of embodied and discursively constructed signifiers of “human” and “rights”, which allows for a range of political aims and outcomes to be expressed through different degrees of antagonism calling, respectively, for deconstruction, inclusion, and expansion of the signifiers.
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Cassim, Fatima. "Design Activism in South Africa: Design Interventions as Invented Spaces to Encourage Activist Citizenship." Design Issues 40, no. 1 (January 1, 2023): 4–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/desi_a_00740.
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Abstract This article is premised on the role of design as a vehicle for social and political intervention, with specific reference to design activism. Owing to design activism's prognostic stance, the article explores how South African design interventions facilitated new sites and actors of citizenship beyond the traditional political arena. The examples of design interventions and the subsequent discussion are grounded in empirical data. As such, the South African context of the research brings “theory from the south” into conversation with current design activism discourse. Furthermore, the article makes visible the relationship between acts of design activism and activist citizenship.
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Odriozola, Onintza, Iker Iraola, and Ane Larrinaga. "‘What tools should we use?’: Politicized youth’s perspectives on digital activism in the Basque Country." Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies 14, no. 2 (October 1, 2022): 267–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/cjcs_00072_1.
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As has occurred with all political activism, contentious counter-hegemonic activism has found a new space for political action on the internet. The massive expansion of digital space in recent years has increased the socializing importance of the field of communications, especially among young people. However, it is not known to what extent the use of internet-based tools has spread in the contemporary protest repertoires of young Basque activists. Based on qualitative research carried out with young pro-independence nationalist activists in the Basque Country in the period following the end of ETA’s armed activity, the main objective of this article is to analyse the scope and limits of digital activism from the point of view of these new political subjects. The principal finding is that activists construct hybrid communication systems, in which physical and virtual spaces are combined, and where their inheritance of a community-based counter-hegemonic political activism and experimentation with new forms have come together.
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Svirsky, Marcelo. "Defining Activism." Deleuze Studies 4, supplement (December 2010): 163–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/dls.2010.0211.
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Activism is defined in this paper as involving local instigations of new series of elements intersecting the actual, generating new collective enunciations, experimentations and investigations, which erode good and common sense and cause structures to swing away from their sedimented identities. By appealing to Spinozism, the paper describes the microphysics of the activist encounter with stable structures and the ways in which activism imposes new regimes of succession of ideas and affective variations in the power of action. Rather than understanding activism as supporting or leading social struggles, the definition of activism pursued here conceives it as an open-ended process and stresses the role of investigation in relation to practices within the social situations to which activism addresses itself.
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LIN, Yu-Hsin. "When Activists Meet Controlling Shareholders in the Shadow of the Law: A Case Study of Hong Kong." Asian Journal of Comparative Law 14, no. 1 (June 6, 2019): 1–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asjcl.2019.12.
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AbstractShareholder activism has changed corporate governance around the world in the past decade. Conventional wisdom holds that shareholder activism is only effective in firms with dispersed ownership; there has been much less discussion on whether and how activism would work in firms with controlling shareholders. This article fills this gap by investigating whether and how legal mechanisms influence strategy planning and activism outcomes based on hand-collected data regarding activists’ initiatives against firms with concentrated ownership in Hong Kong from 2003 to 2017. This article finds that cases using formal legal mechanisms appear to have had a higher success rate. Among the legal tools available, minority veto rights are the most popular mechanism used by activists in Hong Kong, and are quite effective in leveraging their position in controlled firms. Furthermore, the availability of legal remedies and the ownership level of controlling shareholders are factors that influence activists’ strategies. Most activist initiatives against controlled firms involve corporate governance disputes where activists can rely on legal protection to enhance their bargaining position. On the other hand, activists tend not to make their demands public, and they also avoid exercising legal rights when controlling shareholders control the majority of the shares.
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Hansson, Karin, Teresa Cerratto Pargman, and Shaowen Bardzell. "Materializing activism." Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 30, no. 5-6 (October 25, 2021): 617–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10606-021-09412-5.
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AbstractOnline activism showcases how available digital tools allow social movements to emerge, scale up, and extend globally by fundamentally enabling new forms of power. This special issue brings together eight research articles that engage with the collaborative efforts embedded in various types of activism by studying features such as the socio-technical systems involved; how the activism is organized; relations between traditional and social media; and the complex network of systems, information, people, values, theories, histories, ideologies, and aesthetics that constitutes such activisms. The articles show the spaces in which this activism materializes, and particularly their situation in several intersecting dimensions including motivation, culture, language, and infrastructure. Together, these articles reflect the methodological breadth required to materialize online activism and the need to develop a more nuanced conceptualization of the media ecologies involved. By mapping out how activism is enabled and constrained by human-computer interfaces, this special issue contributes to open up the black box of online activism.
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Ellcessor, Elizabeth. "“One tweet to make so much noise”: Connected celebrity activism in the case of Marlee Matlin." New Media & Society 20, no. 1 (August 10, 2016): 255–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444816661551.
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Celebrity activism, online celebrity, and online activism are all growing areas of research, but have received relatively little integration. This article argues that connected celebrity activism deploys social media to forge a variety of connections, enabling activist values to pervade a celebrity persona, reinforcing perceptions of authenticity and recirculating those values to disparate audiences. In the case of Deaf American actor Marlee Matlin, media reform activism serves as a unifying feature, expressed via technologically-facilitated connections between her acting, activist, and online activities, creating a cohesive star text that is seemingly authentic in respect to both Deaf and celebrity identities without being stereotypical. Such centrality and unification via connected celebrity activism stands in contrast to more traditional celebrity activism, and draws upon the specific dynamics of digital media, online activism, and contemporary celebrity culture.
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Christensen, M. Candace, and Alexis V. Arczynski. "Fostering Student Activism: Barriers, Sharing, and Dialectics." World Journal of Social Science Research 1, no. 2 (January 2, 2015): 151. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/wjssr.v1n2p151.
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The present study was an exploratory investigation of interviews with six college students who participated in the development and implementation of a theatre-based sexual assault prevention intervention. We investigated how these students experienced their involvement in activism within the context of developing and presenting a sexual assault prevention program. The research revealed common themes: each student experienced fears about participating in activism or identifying as an activist, had strong desires to share knowledge about sexual assault prevention with their community, and viewed their individual activist identities within a complex understanding of what it meant to be activists. These themes helped us to develop implications for future research and educational practices to support activist identity development.
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Hermez, Sami. "Activism as ‘Part-Time’ Activity: Searching for Commitment and Solidarity in Lebanon." Cultural Dynamics 23, no. 1 (March 2011): 41–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0921374011403353.
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This article is a reflection on activism and ethnography during times of conflict in Lebanon. It focuses on this through activist work the researcher was involved in during the July 2006 war and beyond. The article looks at commitment as one technique of activism, asking how activists achieve their goals, following this by asking what a commitment to ethnography looks like in the midst of conflict. Solidarity and commitment become tropes to think through the changing roles of activists and ethnographers.
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Maher, Thomas V., Morgan Johnstonbaugh, and Jennifer Earl. "“ONE SIZE DOESN'T FIT ALL”: CONNECTING VIEWS OF ACTIVISM WITH YOUTH ACTIVIST IDENTIFICATION*." Mobilization: An International Quarterly 25, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 27–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.17813/1086-671x-25-1-27.
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Identity is crucial to social movement participation. Existing research examines why active people “avoid” activist identities but has less to say about how active people adopt such identities as if they automatically follow participation. We draw on interviews with high school and college students from a midsize southwestern city to examine how young people make sense of what it means to be an activist, who identifies as such, and why youth are willing—or unwilling—to adopt this label. We find that respondents' conceptualizations of “activists” are critical to (non)identification. Those who see activism as a broad category are more likely to identify, holding constant their level of activity. Those who see activism as a greedy institution, requiring significant substantive fluency, making the issue their primary focus, and willingness to sacrifice, do not, despite their level of engagement. Our findings have implications for identity formation and movement participation more broadly.