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Coskun, Hülgen, Jana Oehmichen, Michael Wolff, and Laura Jacobey. "Let's talk Fact to Face – Antecedents of Succesful Private Shareholder Activism in a Global World." Academy of Management Proceedings 2018, no. 1 (August 2018): 18341. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2018.18341abstract.
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Rajkumar, R. Vinodh. "Facilitating Accountable Critical Thinking (FACT): A Perspective from a Novel Facet of Critical Medical Anthropology." Galore International Journal of Applied Sciences and Humanities 6, no. 3 (July 26, 2022): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.52403/gijash.20220701.
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A profession is not just a source to provide occupations to serve people by simply utilizing the knowledge as taught in the curriculum but to serve people with reproducible and verifiable facts. Professionals should be ready to abandon any indoctrinated knowledge if found worthless or harmful when applied. Not only that, the professionals should let the world know about the impracticality or harmfulness of any indoctrinated knowledge, and engage in critical thinking to generate better sustainable alternatives. In medical profession, rendering unbiased evidence-based support to the scientific facts is not possible without experimentations using similar methodologies. Though the greatest achievement of any medical invention (diagnosis, treatment procedure, prophylaxis, public health measure) is its generalizability, the tendency of the health care professionals to generalize a finding of someone or themselves without repeated applications in real-life situations has been an impediment. Critical thinking is the precursor for evidence-based practices in medical profession. It is highly difficult to shape the public health system into an evidence-based noble ‘School of Thought’ (preferably, nation-specific ‘School of Thought’) in order to eradicate iatrogenesis, pseudoscience, health inequities, statistical malpractices, quackery, professional degradation etc., for which important ‘Health Activism’ initiatives incorporating the principles of Salutogenesis, Homeostasis, Lifestyle medicine, Evidence-based practice, Transdisciplinarity and Teamwork, are needed. In fact, health care professionals should possess profound and flawless foundational knowledge about homeostasis. Anthropologists with any medical degree background could be competent enough to reveal various unexplored facets of critical medical anthropology to support standardization of the medical education and health care practices. Keywords: Critical Medical Anthropology, Health Activism, Critical Thinking, Salutogenesis, Transdisciplinarity, Homeostasis, Evidence-based Practice, Lifestyle Medicine .
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Bandelli, Andrea. "The blurred boundaries between science and activism." Journal of Science Communication 14, no. 02 (June 11, 2015): C01. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.14020301.
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Science and activism are terms which are usually seen as quite separate. Yet, they are inextricably linked, even more so as techno scientific progress permeates contemporary society. The five commentaries in this series provide insights for a discussion about how the (apparent) separation between “value laden” activism and “value free” science is in fact very thin, and how science communication can play a key role in ensuring reflexivity and self criticism in science.
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Parent, Nicolas. "Four voices of refugee solidarity along the Balkan Route: An exploratory pilot study on motivations for mobilisation." Migration Letters 15, no. 3 (July 8, 2018): 423–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/ml.v15i3.363.
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Scathing critiques of the European response to what has been widely called a ‘refugee crisis’ are not in short supply. However, as many activist mobilisations and solidarities emerged along the Balkan Route, this is only one facet of the European response to forced migration. Having interviewed four migration activists from four countries along this route – Greece, Macedonia, Serbia and Hungary – this exploratory pilot study sought to investigate possible motivational factors for mobilisation in light of the fact that the participants had no prior experience in activism nor interest in the politics of migration prior to the European migration crisis. Through content analysis of interview transcripts, two factors emerged as having potential implications for mobilisation: media coverage and visibility of refugees. Hence, theories about the media effect and intergroup contact are used to explicate the findings. Possible future research avenues are proposed.
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Thompson, Vilissa. "How Technology Is Forcing the Disability Rights Movement into the 21st Century." Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 5, no. 1 (April 1, 2019): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.28968/cftt.v5i1.30420.
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One of the unspoken realities of technology is the fact that it has propelled the Disability Rights Movement into the 21st century by allowing more intersected voices and perspectives to be widely shared and heard. Online activism has reshaped the history and leadership of our community, and this impact is not only empowering for the collective movement, but to individual activists and advocates as well. Vilissa Thompson, social worker and activist, recounts the impact of technology in her work and the various ways members in the disability community use technology to ramp their voices.
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Srishyla, L. "JUDICIAL ACTIVISM IN INDIAN DEMOCRACY." SCHOLARLY RESEARCH JOURNAL FOR HUMANITY SCIENCE AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE 9, no. 47 (October 1, 2021): 11477–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.21922/srjhsel.v9i47.7716.
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Judicial Activism is a powerful weapon, which the judges have to wield to Sub serves the ends of justice by making the law responsive to the felt necessities of the changing times. The scope of judicial activism varies with the courts power of Judicial Review. The judicial activism is use of judicial power to articulate and enforce what is beneficial for the society in general and people at large. Supreme Court despite its constitutional Limitation has come up with flying colors as a champion of justice in the true sense of The word .JUSTICE…this seven letter word is one of the most debated one sin the entire English dictionary. With the entire world population being linked to it, there is no doubt about the fact that with changing tongues the definition does change. The judicial activism has touched almost every aspect of life in India to do positive justice and in the process has gone beyond, what is prescribed by law or written in black and white. This article covers definition, Theories of judicial activism, development of Judicial Activism in India, Judicial Activism in various periods.
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Cardoso, Daniel. "The Political Is Personal: The Importance of Affective Narratives in the Rise of Poly-activism." Sociological Research Online 24, no. 4 (April 1, 2019): 691–708. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1360780419835559.
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There is a considerable gap on how social movements that center around non/monogamies decide to organize and articulate their strategies, as well as how they manage their tensions with other activist groups and ideologies or even the State. In addition to this, the fact that much of the literature that circulates is written in English and in an Anglophone context, hampers the ability of researchers to come into contact with other experiences of non/monogamies. This article gives a situated account of the rise of the Portuguese polyamorous social movement and shows how interpersonal relationships fundamentally shape the way activism is performed, and how archives are also important in establishing the identity of activists and activist groups. Using data from the Portuguese polyamorous group PolyPortugal, and interviews with high-profile activists, I argue that the idea of a politics of relating (the politicized analysis of how we connect and perform a given ethics of connection) is a conceptually useful tool to think about the transformations of contemporary intimacies, but it is also fundamental to think about how activism is done by people and for people – people who relate to one another, who exist in tension.
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van Dam, Peter, and Andrea Franc. "Trajectories of Global Solidarity. Fair Trade Activism Since the 1960s: Introduction." Contemporary European History 28, no. 4 (October 31, 2019): 512–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960777319000250.
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AbstractActivists throughout Western Europe joined Southern actors in demanding a reform of global trade during the 1960s. This forum focuses on the subsequent trajectories of fair trade activism: the initiatives which aimed to achieve equitable economic relations between the South and the North. The evolution of this movement is situated within larger debates about social movements since the 1960s. The forum demonstrates the importance of a transnational perspective, particularly the impact of the global South and European integration. It highlights fair trade's broad constituency and the contested development of its goals and repertoire. The movement's trajectories challenge us to reassess how activists attempted to shape a post-colonial world in which consumption had become a predominant fact of life. Regarding this strand of activism as part of crucial post-war developments provides a fresh perspective on the history of transnational civic activism.
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McKnight, Heather. "Chaos and hope: nano-utopian moments of activist self-organisation." Excursions Journal 10, no. 1 (December 4, 2020): 33–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.20919/exs.10.2020.252.
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Arguably, chaos and entropy are adaptive to activism and utopian theory; they trouble normative approaches to temporal progress, applying a non-linear and emergent approach to thinking about activism and possibility. [...] This initial exploratory definition of the nano-utopian describes moments that are fractions of [...] micro- utopian structures, or that may initially sit at a disconnect from them, differing mainly in the fact that they are unpredictable, unplanned or unexpected.
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Pirbhai, M. Reza. "‘From Purdah to Parliament’." Hawwa 14, no. 3 (December 5, 2016): 278–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15692086-12341312.
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Begum Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah was a Pakistani author, politician, diplomat and social-activist whose life bridges the late colonial and post-colonial phases of South Asian history. Her biography illustrates the discursive pressures shaping the lives of upper and intermediate class men and women of her generation, particularly as manifested in the unquestioned tropes of modernization theory. However, the same life reveals that her notion of the tradition-modernity dichotomy does not extend to the equation of Islam with tradition. The secular-religious divide, in fact, does not feature in her thought or activism at all. The latter activism also problematizes the assumption that Muslim women, any more of less than non-Muslims, are marginal or peripheral players in the history of the twentieth century.
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Bouaziz, Souha Siala, Ines Ben Amar Fakhfakh, and Anis Jarboui. "Shareholder activism, earnings management and Market performance consequences: French case." International Journal of Law and Management 62, no. 5 (June 15, 2020): 395–415. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijlma-03-2018-0050.
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of the relationship between shareholder activism and earnings management on the market performance of French companies. Design/methodology/approach This study used 385 firm-year observations drawn from a sample of French companies belonging to the SBF 120 index from 2008 to 2012. Data was collected from annual reports of sample companies. To measure earnings management, this study used the model of Raman and Shahrur (2008). The relationship between shareholder activism, earnings management and market performance using the panel data regression model was empirically examined. Findings The results prove that shareholder activism, as indicated by shareholder proposals, has no impact on market performance. However, the existence of shareholder activism affects the market performance positively. In fact, a minimum of proposals proves that shareholder activism plays an appropriate and effective role in creating value. Thus, several activists would resort to “a private activism” which could be the best and the least expensive form. This form of activism is called “behind the scenes.” Findings also show that earnings management has a negative impact on market performance. As a matter of fact, these findings allow to conclude that the firm performance decreases whenever managers undertake to earnings management. Also, earnings management behavior is mainly opportunistic. Finally, the relationship between shareholder activism and earnings management has no impact on market performance. This result reveals that shareholder activism proves to be an ineffective mechanism that does not alter the accounting choices, particularly in relation to earnings management. This result shows the inability of active shareholders to define and implement strategies across their proposals, namely, “the lack of monitoring competence.” Research limitations/implications It is important in future research to evaluate the impact of behind the scenes interventions on corporate governance. Also, this paper gives a larger dimension to the effect of shareholder activism on the market performance in the specific context of earnings management, thus justifying the need to expand this study using other methodologies to deepen and better understand this relationship in this context. Practical implications The paper's evidence contributes to an understanding of corporate governance. The finding of this study will help in monitoring and controlling fraudulent earnings management practices that effect on market performance. Further, this study is important to investors, academics and policymakers, as it demonstrates that governance reforms that encourage firms to adopt better governance practices that reduce the likelihood of earnings management. Originality/value To the best of the author’s knowledge, this paper pioneers in focusing on the impact of the shareholder activism and earnings management on the market performance because previous studies put more emphasis on pair-wise relations (Shareholder activism-earnings management, earnings management-market performance and shareholder activism-market performance). This study provides empirical evidence on the effectiveness of the relationship between shareholder activism and earnings management on market performance.
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Zelenina, Galina. "“In Kibitkas through Snow…” Faithful Wives and Fragile Masculinity in the Late Soviet Jewish Movement." Adam & Eve. Gender History Review, no. 30 (2022): 62–123. http://dx.doi.org/10.32608/2307-8383-2022-30-62-123.
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The article explores the participation of women in Jewish national movement: their family roles, activism and their images in the narratives of the movement. The sources and the scholarship of the movement often mentioned an important role of its women. However, for all great numbers and activism of these women, they were not seen as independent actors: their struggle was the struggle for husbands and sons. Activism and self–sacrifice of the women notwithstanding, their role was viewed as that of helpers, and this fact has been articulated in the sources and seen as natural. The movement’s rhetoric is patrilineal, activists linked their Jewish consciousness with fathers, learned the language of fathers and desired to go to the fatherland. As a result, synchronically and diachronically, a new Jewish nation has been constructed as a predominantly male community, faithful women–helpers’ presence remained at the background and confirmed the male activists’ heroic self–image and made it possible to create a new and desirable masculinity of cunny and fearless fighters against regime.
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Beebeejaun, Ambareen, and Jushveer Koobloll. "An assessment whether shareholder activism can be a corporate governance driver in the case of Mauritius." International Journal of Law and Management 60, no. 6 (November 12, 2018): 1313–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijlma-07-2017-0154.
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Purpose “Shareholder activism works when shareholders understand something about the characteristics of the business that the board doesn’t”. As complex the term shareholder activism may seem, it demonstrates a very simple phenomenon of how shareholder take control of a situation to turn it in their favor. The whole world has taken an activism “twist” where every person has a word to say. The same characteristic of the society is showcased in this paper where engagement of shareholder is questioned whether it helps to promote effective corporate governance. Given the fact that Mauritius has a rather low shareholder activism framework, this research aims to depict the international picture of the issue at different levels to reach a consensus with the local market. It was a major challenge as very little research has been conducted to accurately contrast shareholder activism with corporate governance. However, the international standards aim at giving a clear picture of how the shareholder activism actually functions. Design/methodology/approach The research has adopted a black letter approach by analyzing relevant laws and legislations governing corporate governance matters in Mauritius and the USA, Malaysia, France and South Africa. Thereafter, a comparative analysis was made between Mauritius laws and the aforementioned countries. Recommendations were then put forward on the subject matter which is shareholder activism. Findings Research has shown development in corporate governance alongside the increase in shareholder activism. However, these research studies fail to prove that the development is because of shareholder activism itself. In fact, it could be because of increase in corporate intellects, removal of trade barriers, sustainable corporate practices and many such changes that have affected the corporate market somehow. Hence, it is difficult to conclude, with certainty, that the driver of good corporate governance is, in particular, the phenomenon of shareholder activism. Nevertheless, many result of shareholder activism has demonstrated a rather positive impact on the ongoing of the corporate dealings and on a personal note, it can be said that shareholder activism is a domain where much research and development should be effected as it represents a promising improvement in the way corporations are governed. Originality/value The concept of shareholder activism is quite new to the Mauritius legislation. There has not been research done on whether shareholder activism, particularly, is the reason for corporate success or failure. In this light, this paper aims to analyze shareholder activism practices in other countries and puts forward recommendation in the Mauritius context which may be of use to stakeholders concerned.
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Blankholm, Joseph. "Retirement Without God: Activism and Community Among Secular People Over 60." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 441. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1426.
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Abstract There are more than 1,400 nonbeliever communities in the United States and well over a dozen organizations that advocate for secular people on the national level. Together, these local and national groups comprise a social movement that includes atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers, and other kinds of nonbelievers. Despite the fact that retired people over 60 dedicate most of the money and energy needed to run these groups, the increasingly vast literature on secular people and secularism has paid them almost no attention. Relying on more than one hundred interviews (including dozens with people over 60), several years of ethnographic research, and a survey of organized nonbelievers, this paper demonstrates the crucial role that people over 60 play in the American secular movement today. It also considers the reasons older adults are so important to these groups, the challenges they face in trying to recruit younger members and combat stereotypes about aging leadership, and generational differences that structure how various types of nonbeliever groups look and feel. This paper reframes scholarly understandings of very secular Americans by focusing on people over 60 and charts a new path in secular studies.
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Jauhari, Minan. "Aktivisme Dakwah Siber Di Tengah Konvergensi Media Digital." Dakwatuna: Jurnal Dakwah dan Komunikasi Islam 7, no. 2 (August 12, 2021): 213. http://dx.doi.org/10.54471/dakwatuna.v7i2.1138.
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This article discusses da'wah activism which is expressed in the midst of the convergence of digital media as a religious phenomenon. Da'wah activism is part of a religious activity that is an obligation for a Muslim, however, the display of da'wah messages expressed in the midst of the convergence of digital media does not only show it as a religious activity, but in appearance it also has the opportunity as a tool for political and ideological interests. In fact, Islam wants the da'wah to be carried out in the context of calling for goodness and preventing evil as the teachings of Islam. The method used in this study is to use a virtual ethnographic approach that focuses on artifacts, and digital traces related to da'wah messages displayed through cyber media. Furthermore, in order to understand religious phenomena that are expressed in the digital space, this study uses the concept of da'wah and cyber media as a choice of perspective, the aim is to be able to answer the question of how cyber da'wah activism is carried out by religious communities in the midst of digital media convergence. So it can be concluded that cyber da'wah activism, in addition to calling for good and preventing evil, turns out to be in its display of da'wah also depicts other interests such as political and ideological interests hidden behind da'wah messages displayed through digital media.Keywords : Da'wah Activism, Convergence, Digital Media
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Johnson, Victoria E. "Sporting Community: Activism and Responsibility in Turbulent Times." Television & New Media 21, no. 6 (July 26, 2020): 590–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527476420919696.
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In the period since Television & New Media’s inception, most of my scholarly endeavors have focused on sports media as a critical everyday site for discussion and realization of “community” in an era that often resists or, worse, actively undermines such a concept. As sports media have proliferated across this period (e.g., athlete/team/league Twitter and Instagram pages are now requisite “texts”), expectations for athletes to both stand in for entire populations’ political voice and to “shut up and dribble” have been amplified. This essay examines the LeBron (James) Family Foundation in conjunction with LeBron James’s public standing as a politicized, irrevocably geographic, and—per George Lipsitz and Ralina Joseph—always “racialized fact” to consider the increased expectation that sport/media icons are now obligated to remedy state failings through their charitable endeavors.
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Haastrup, Helle Kannik. "Hermione’s feminist book club: celebrity activism and cultural critique." MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research 34, no. 65 (December 21, 2018): 98–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/mediekultur.v34i65.104842.
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In this article, I analyse how a celebrity can perform cultural critique and feminist activism using her Instagram account and online book club. The celebrity in question is British film star Emma Watson, famous for playing Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter franchise. Watson is performing her activism on gender equality and cultural critique by recommending feminist literature. This study undertakes an analysis of Watson’s presentations of self on Instagram and in her letters in the Our Shared Shelf book club. The analysis takes its point of departure from theories of social media and celebrity culture and film studies as well as investigations of celebrity book clubs and celebrity activism. This case study of Emma Watson’s performance of cultural critique and activism on specific media platforms demonstrates that Watson’s authority is based on her star image as well as the fact that her book club letters and Instagram posts mutually reinforce one another’s written personal arguments and visual documentation.
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Neunsinger, Silke. "Gendered Activism and the Politics of Women's Work: Introduction." International Labor and Working-Class History 77, no. 1 (2010): 3–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547909990214.
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It is often said that labor history is in decline. Yet other interpretations are possible. The flourishing of labor history from the 1960s to the 1980s could instead be regarded as exceptional and the situation during the last twenty years as the more typical state of affairs. A second interpretation, which I favor, is that labor history has, in fact, not declined. Rather, the content of labor history has shifted. There may be less scholarship on many of the traditional or original objects of research, but there is new research, in history and other disciplines, on topics that arguably fall under a new, expanded understanding of “labor history.” This second explanation is supported by the continued vitality of scholarship on women's work and women's activism.
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Gralińska-Toborek, Agnieszka. "The aesthetics of green guerrilla. From activism to fine art." on the w terfront Public Art Urban Design Civic Participation Urban Regenerationt 63, no. 1 (February 28, 2022): 3–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1344/waterfront2021.63.1.02.
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Grassroots movements – the activisms associated with the greening of the cities, reclaiming wastelands, establishing community gardens, improving the quality of life in industrialized places through minor nature-based interventions, as well as protection and safeguarding of the scraps of nature within cities – are what in this article I call green guerilla. I want to demonstrate how these small-scale grassroots movements grow; how their actions lead to official solutions; how they become institutionalized and, sometimes, commercialized. However, above all, by linking them with the environmental and participatory aesthetic trends, I wish to indicate their aesthetic aspects and the fact that they frequently bear the hallmarks of art.
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Betlemidze, Mariam. "Mobile layers of 2015 Copenhagen shooting: sounds, witnesses, and tweets @FEMENINNA." Media, Culture & Society 41, no. 5 (November 20, 2018): 708–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443718810903.
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The article examines the case of the terrorist attack on a free speech event hosted at Krudttønden café in Copenhagen on 14 February 2015, exactly at the time when Femen’s leading activist Inna Shevchenko was delivering her speech on the illusion of free speech in Europe. I focus on the intersections of sound, feminine vulnerability, mediatized support, and transformations of Femen activism network within layered and interlaced networks. Guided by the concept of Badiou’s event, the article offers the perspective of Shevchenko’s ‘evental’ activism, which stands out with its instantaneous switch from usual Femen-disapproving rhetoric to the rhetoric of support for Femen and its terrorist-attack survived leader in particular. The fact that Shevchenko not only witnessed and survived the attack but also became a popular spokesperson for the event and the issue of free expression signposts a major transformation of Femen activism and brings into the light larger cultural phenomenon. The article argues that the mediatized perception of intense and immediate fears helps level out of the smaller cultural and aesthetic differences at the expense of creating new ‘us versus them’ division accompanied by the discussions attempting to counteract it.
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Munro, Iain. "An interview with Chelsea Manning’s lawyer: Nancy Hollander on human rights and the protection of whistleblowers." Organization 26, no. 2 (June 13, 2018): 276–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508418779648.
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This article presents an edited interview with Nancy Hollander, a prominent human rights activist and criminal defense lawyer. The primary focus of the interview is Ms Hollander’s work as the lead defense counsel for the whistleblower, Chelsea Manning. The main themes addressed in the interview are (a) the close links between the practice of whistleblowing and human rights activism, (b) the fact that whistleblowers are not only subject to retaliation but are also being increasingly criminalized, and (c) the creation of a broad support network for whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning.
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Colovic, Ana, and Sonia Mehrotra. "Lifelong activism and women’s entrepreneurship: how a social movement organization improves conditions for self-employed women in India." European Business Review 32, no. 5 (June 13, 2020): 937–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ebr-09-2019-0215.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how a local trade union improves living conditions for women entrepreneurs in India and how its activities have evolved over time. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a longitudinal case study of the self-employed women’s association (SEWA) in India. Founded in 1972, this organization fosters and supports women’s entrepreneurship. The approach of this study combines qualitative face-to-face interviews and secondary data analysis. Findings The findings highlight the fact that SEWA, which combines the features of a trade union and a social movement, improves women’s conditions in several different ways. The study shows that the organization’s main role has evolved from creating a community to expanding it and finally to becoming an agent of societal change. Originality/value The study contributes to the literature by analyzing how locally grown organizations fight social exclusion and improve the conditions of deprived groups in emerging economies.
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Surman, Jan, and Ella Rossman. "New dissidence in contemporary Russia: Students, feminism and new ethics." New Perspectives 30, no. 1 (December 21, 2021): 27–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2336825x211067405.
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The essay is devoted to the specifics of the contemporary Russian opposition and civil society. We describe the characteristics of contemporary ‘intellectual activism’ and the growing network of small civil and political groups in today’s Russia. We show that Russian civil society remains fragile and fragmented; the public discussion is not focused on strategies of resistance to arbitrariness but on constructing moral categories such as the wide and vague concept of ‘new ethics’. We also show how outsiders appear among contemporary Russian dissidents, who are not supported by most independent leaders and intellectuals – these are young ‘new leftists’ and feminist activist groups. These political activists find themselves under pressure from both the siloviki and the authorities, and in the focus of criticism of opposition leaders, becoming, in fact, dissidents among dissidents in contemporary Russia.
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Korotkova, A. "Adolescent Eco-Activism in Crisis." World Economy and International Relations 65, no. 6 (2021): 107–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.20542/0131-2227-2021-65-6-107-118.
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Received 09.12.2020. The article analyzes the activities of the adolescent environmental community “Fridays For Future” in the context of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The school climate activist movement was initiated in 2018 in Sweden by 15-year-old Greta Thunberg. It has actively been gaining momentum during the two years of its existence. Thanks to the attention of the media and leading international organizations, it has acquired worldwide fame. But in 2020, due to the spread of coronavirus infection, the FFF was forced to pass the first serious test of strength. In the context of quarantine, it has lost two of its most important components. First, the increased interest of the media, which focused on covering a new burning topic, has dried up. Secondly, street demonstrations, which were the main method of the activists’ struggle, were banned. The author of the article explores actions and new ways of activity that the members of the “Fridays For Future” have adapted to their goals. As a source base for this research, the Internet resources of the movement are investigated which have been developed quite well during its existence. In addition to this network of information, the materials of the mass media that continued to monitor the activities of young climate fighters were also reviewed. In addition, the works of other researchers studying the FFF movement are involved, unfortunately, not many, since the topic is relatively new. The article concludes about the ability of such type of associations as the “Fridays For Future” to maintain stability in crisis situations. This is facilitated by the features of their network device, as well as the generational identity of their participants. The main core of the movement is young students, whose representatives have mastered the new information technologies perfectly. Thanks to this fact, they are able to quickly adjust their methods and software settings, while generally maintaining a common commitment to their goals. Acknowledgements. The article was prepared within the project “Post-Crisis World Order: Challenges and Technologies, Competition and Cooperation” supported by the grant from Ministry of science and higher education of The Russian Federation program for research projects in priority areas of scientific and technological development (Agreement № 075-15-2020-783).
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Corbalán, Ana. "Militancia femenina contra la dictadura de Pinochet: Legitimación memorística de La mujer metralleta." Image and Storytelling: New Approaches to Hispanic Cinema and Literature 1, no. 2 (October 31, 2020): 239–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.5399/uo/peripherica.1.2.11.
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This essay analyzes the representation of female activism in La mujer metralleta, a documentary by Chilean Francisco López Balló that reconstructs the biography of Marcela Rodríguez Valdivieso, a guerrilla who has succumbed to the oblivion in Chile. It is necessary to highlight her anti-dictatorial fight in order to recover her name and that of so many other militants. My study aims to eliminate the prevailing silence around the exiles who also contributed to the redemocratization processes in Chile and participated in the resistance against Pinochet. Despite their constant political activism, women have been excluded from official historiography. This essay claims a place in the world to one of the many activists who experienced the process of Chilean exile and whose biography contributes to a better understanding of female activism. This documentary offers a new approach to the past is constructed that questions the relations between the State and the revolutionary position of women, despite the fact that women have historically played a marginal role in war conflicts. My paper points out the relevance of this guerrilla, how this documentary contributes to reconstructing history and how exile affects the transmission of memories.
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Buttigieg, Karen, and Paul Pace. "Positive Youth Action Towards Climate Change." Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability 15, no. 1 (June 1, 2013): 15–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jtes-2013-0002.
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Abstract This study focuses on the experiences of young people who are leaders of change in the environmental field. This study views environmental activism as a personal commitment towards pro-environmental behaviour. The motivations and challenges of such work are viewed as important to learn more not only about volunteering in environmental organisations, but also about pro-environmental behaviour. The main research problem was to explore these individualsí present and past life experiences, in the light of their activism, towards the issue of climate change. Narrative inquiry was chosen as a methodology for this research as it gives importance to experience and facilitates the study of an issue in all of its wholeness and complexity. The research involved in-depth interviews with three participants as well as living alongside the participants in an effort to build a relationship with them and to experience being an environmental activist. The participants were members of a local environmental organisation ñ Friends of the Earth (Malta). The outcomes of this study provide an opportunity for reflection on the factors that affect pro-environmental attitudes and behaviour and their implications on environmental education. This reflection will enable informed efforts to engage more young people in environmental activism. From the narratives produced, it is clear that there is no single factor that is optimal for promoting pro-environmental behaviour and environmental activism. These are, in fact, determined by a combination of interrelated factors.
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Rai, Sharad Chandra. "Student Political Activism in Nepal: Vanguards of Democracy or Powerless Pawns?" Asian Social Science 18, no. 10 (September 22, 2022): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ass.v18n10p8.
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Student political activism declined in the Global South after the 1990s. However, it has remained strong in Nepal despite the fact that it has undergone similar socio-political changes. This paper demonstrates that the main reason for the distinct nature of Nepali student political activism lies in the patron–client relationship between student organizations and political parties. Undoubtedly, the contribution of student organizations in the establishment of democracy in the three major democratic mass movements in Nepal is incomparable. However, the nature of their relationship with their mother political parties transformed from a semi-autonomous to a subordinate relationship after the institutionalisation of a multi-party democracy in 1990. This interdependent relationship is maintained and consistently solidified through the mutual exchange of resources, both material and non-material. This paper concludes that student political activism in Nepal is not expected to decline in the near future, because these patronage-dispensing political parties are perceived to be part of the state by the general Nepali society—one that controls state resources and institutions, including universities and public campuses.
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Pompa, Chiara. "The Beauty of Inclusivity: “Visual Activism” from Social Media to Fashion Magazines." Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture 6, no. 2 (November 2021): 313–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jasiapacipopcult.6.2.0313.
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Abstract This article investigates the role of fashion and beauty photography in contemporary social discourses of inclusion and diversity, contributing to a critique of traditional politics of representation of the body and, therefore, to sociocultural change. Starting from analyzing this complex phenomenon that has generated a ground for comparison between ethic and aesthetic practices, snapshot culture, and advertising, Pompa examines how the rise of social media put into crisis the now leading aesthetic standards. In fact, these media have pointed out the need to increase the representation on fashion magazines of minorities, who have until now been excluded in the mainstream media. In this perspective, Vogue Italia and related narratives of unconventional beauty are explored.
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Holmes IV, Oscar. "For diversity scholars who have considered activism when scholarship isn’t enough!" Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 38, no. 6 (August 19, 2019): 668–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/edi-08-2017-0170.
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Purpose The paper is the abridged text of the author’s opening keynote address given on June 28, 2017 at the 10th Annual Equality Diversity Inclusion Conference hosted at Brunel University (London, UK). The conference theme was Borders. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach The address was given orally accompanied with slides that included pictures and quotes of referenced authors and works, websites, memes and various civil rights events. The address interwove personal experiences, published research, social movement strategies and current events and social issues. A brief question and answer period followed the address. Findings The address made the case that while scholarship is important, diversity scholars need to do more than publish scholarship but also engage in activism. In fact, the author argued that history has informed us that scholarship has never been enough to produce significant civil rights advancements. Originality/value Toward this end, the author provides three action steps that diversity scholars can take to engage in activism that produces results: translate research for the general public; partner with activist groups, and call out respectability politics and false equivalencies.
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Odintsov, Alexander Vladimirovich. "Activism resource of local associations of the Volgograd Oblast." Социодинамика, no. 4 (April 2020): 11–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-7144.2020.4.32528.
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The object of this research is the local municipal and rural associations of the Volgograd Oblast. The subject of this research is the resource of activism of local associations of the Volgograd Oblast. This research analyzes the key characteristics of the population of municipal and rural districts of the Oblast for emergence of activism, namely the unity in understanding of the key issues faced by local association and attention to them; presence of social solidarity and close communication; self-identification with the local territorial community. The main hypothesis of this research was tested with help of mass surveys of the population, conducted based on quota cell. Statistical population in this research – the population of the Volgograd Oblast (N=2,491,751). The basis for the quota consisted in the following: place of residence of respondents (municipal and rural districts of the Volgograd Oblast), as well as gender and age of respondents. The total size of the cell is n=848 respondents. The novelty of this research consists in the fact that for the first time it is determined that rural local associations possesses greater potential for activism than their urban counterparts, which can become a substantial base for development of rural areas if properly applied.
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Oldfield, Luke D., Rituparna Roy, Aimee B. Simpson, Apriel D. Jolliffe Simpson, and Leon A. Salter. "Academic Activism in the Wake of a Pandemic." International Perspectives in Psychology 10, no. 4 (October 2021): 215–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/2157-3891/a000027.
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Abstract. The COVID-19 pandemic intensified anxieties among temporary workers in New Zealand tertiary education, particularly those affiliated with universities reliant on the lucrative market for international fee-paying students. As national borders closed and states started looking inward, these same learning institutions began to more visibly express the language of market logics for which they had been remodeled in recent decades, adapting to declining revenue through austerity-like budget cuts. The communication of these cuts to the academic precariat has been mixed, with some institutions resorting to cold, forceful determinations delivered as matter-of-fact restructurings, while others have preferred an oblique recasting of the pandemic's disruption as an opportunity for social responsibility. This paper is a collective self-reflection on the activism undertaken by the newly formed Tertiary Education Action Group Aotearoa during the COVID-19 pandemic. It begins by contextualizing the reforms rolled out in response to the pandemic in relation to the “neoliberal turn” of higher education and examines how career pathways for early career academics have transformed into a continuous cycle of precarious employment. We argue that the idealized “early career” identity has been lost and that through a process of mourning we can regather ourselves and embrace our lived realities as members of the academic precariat. We detail how the pandemic acted as a catalyst for this “productive mourning” and enabled us to begin mobilizing discontent among the academic precariat. Finally, we reflect on the extent to which we were able to challenge existing structures that are responsible for the exploitative nature of precarious academic work.
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Jackson, Sarah J. "Making #BlackLivesMatter in the Shadow of Selma: Collective Memory and Racial Justice Activism in U.S. News." Communication, Culture and Critique 14, no. 3 (March 24, 2021): 385–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcab007.
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Abstract It is clear in news coverage of recent uprisings for Black life that journalists and media organizations struggle to reconcile the fact of ongoing racism with narratives of U.S. progress. Bound up in this struggle is how collective memory—or rather whose collective memory—shapes the practices of news-making. Here I interrogate how television news shapes collective memory of Black activism through analysis of a unique moment when protests over police abuse of Black people became newsworthy simultaneous with widespread commemorations of the civil rights movement. I detail the complex terrain of nostalgia and misremembering that provides cover for moderate and conservative delegitimization of contemporary Black activism. At the same time, counter-memories, introduced most often by members of the Black public sphere, offer alternative, actionable, and comprehensive interpretations of Black protest.
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Gesta Leal, Rogério. "RISCOS E POSSIBILIDADES DO ATIVISMO JUDICIAL NA DEMOCRACIA." Revista Eletrônica Direito e Política 16, no. 1 (May 4, 2021): 181–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.14210/rdp.v16n1.p181-200.
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RESUMOO objetivo deste trabalho é verificar em que medida é possível conciliar ativismo judicial e democracia, considerando principalmente os desafios que se apresentam as relações sociais contemporâneas. A justificativa desta proposta se sustenta no fato de que o Poder Judiciário tem sido cada vez mais procurado para dar conta de demandas envolvendo as insuficiências das politicas públicas governamentais em face de direitos fundamentais. Demarcamos como problema da abordagem verificar se é possível superar eventuais tensões entre o excesso de ativismo judicial e a democracia enquanto representação politica também institucional de outros poderes, e como hipótese a premissa de que deva-se adotar, para a solução do problema, perspectiva ampliada da atuação do Poder Judiciário a partir da compreensão igualmente oxigenada da Democracia e dos seus outros legítimos protagonistas, sob pena do esvaziamento de instancias importantes de deliberação e decisão política quotidiano. A metodologia utilizada neste trabalho foi a hipotética dedutiva.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Ativismo Judicial; Democracia; Representação PolíticaABSTRACTThe objective of this work is to verify to what extent it is possible to conciliate judicial activism and democracy, considering mainly the challenges presented by contemporary social relations. The justification of this proposal is based on the fact that the Judiciary has been increasingly sought to deal with demands involving the inadequacies of governmental public policies in the face of fundamental rights. We point out as a problem of the approach to verify if it is possible to overcome possible tensions between the excess of judicial activism and democracy as a political representation also institutional of other powers, and as a hypothesis the premise that it should be adopted, for the solution of the problem, the oxygenated understanding of Democracy and its other legitimate protagonists, under penalty of emptying important instances of deliberation and daily political decision. The methodology used in this work was the hypothetical deductive. KEY-WORDS: Judicial Activism; Democracy; Political Representation
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Anjaria, Jonathan Shapiro. "Guardians of the Bourgeois City: Citizenship, Public Space, and Middle–Class Activism in Mumbai." City & Community 8, no. 4 (December 2009): 391–406. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6040.2009.01299.x.
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This article examines the new phenomenon of “citizens’ groups” in contemporary Mumbai, India, whose activities are directed at making the city's public spaces more orderly. Recent scholarship on Mumbai's efforts to become a “global” city has pointed to the removal of poor populations as an instance of neoliberal governmentality as espoused by the Indian state following the “liberalization” of the economy in the early 1990s. However, in this case, it is these civil society organizations, not the state—whose functionaries in fact benefit from a certain element of unruliness on the streets—who are the agents of increased control over populations and of the rationalization of urban space. This article, based on fieldwork–based research, argues that the way in which citizens’ groups exclude poor populations from the city is more complex than a straightforward deployment of neoliberalism, and is imbricated with transnational political economic arrangements in uneven and often inconsistent ways. in particular, this article explores how civic activists in these organizations envision their role in the city, and how their activism attempts to reconfigure the nature of citizenship. for instance, civic activists consider themselves to be the stewards of the city's streets and sidewalks, and wage their battles against what they consider unruly hawkers, a corrupt state, and a complacent middle–class public. Moreover, civic activists render street hawkers’ political claims illegitimate by speaking on behalf of the abstract “citizen”of Mumbai, thus implying that hawkers’ unions speak only on behalf of the vested interests of a single population. in this way, they mobilize a normative notion of civil society in order to exclude the vast segment of city residents who either sell or buy goods on the street. in doing so, the civic activists transform the discourse and practice of politics in the city, so that, ironically, while on one hand using the rhetoric of citizen participation, they in fact undermine the radically heterogeneous forms of democratic political participation the city offers.
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Puente Beccar, Estelí. "Bolivian National Revolution: Bolivian Women Without Revolution." Bolivian Studies Journal 28 (December 2, 2022): 89–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/bsj.2022.208.
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The 1952 National Revolution drew a line that divided Bolivian history in two. In this article I analyze the effects that the Revolution had on the lives of women with respect to the changes in legislation during the MNR government, from 1952 to 1964, and the sociocultural transformations that arose mainly from the political activism of women and their relationship with the processes of State transformation. Despite the fact that I start from the fact that the Revolution was a turning point for the history of the country and that fundamental changes for Bolivian society arose from it, I maintain that, in the case of women, the Revolution did not determine great conquests, neither in the legal field nor in the political field.
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Ivanova, Mila. "Shareholder activism and the ethical harnessing of institutional investors." critical perspectives on international business 12, no. 2 (May 3, 2016): 189–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/cpoib-09-2013-0032.
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Purpose This study aims to foster a deeper understanding of socio-ethical shareholder activism by outlining the corporate campaigning strategies of a UK-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) and by assessing their impact on both institutional investors and the practices of two multinational companies. As we move into a world where shareholder ownership is becoming more democratised, shareholder activism is gaining prominence in the USA, Europe and Asia, opening new avenues for participation in corporate governance by stakeholders such as NGOs who have traditionally been uninvolved in corporate decisions. Design/methodology/approach The article adopts a qualitative methodology and case study research design. It relies on semi-structured interviews, analysis of documents and participant observation. Findings First, the study sheds light into the ways in which NGOs are connecting themselves to the financial sector. It argues that they can pursue their political goals by framing their arguments in a way that emphasises the short-term financial risks/benefits for investors. Secondly, it demystifies the term “shareholder activism”, transforming it from an action tool belonging only to big and powerful institutions, to a tool which gives other stakeholders such as NGOs and ordinary people a real stake in companies’ affairs. What is more, the study highlights the divergent nature of institutional shareholder activist intervention in the USA and the UK. Research Limitations/implications Given the generally long-term nature of shareholder campaigns, which can sometimes span over several years, it could be beneficial to adopt a longitudinal research design. Future research can endeavour to focus on a number of different campaigns over a period that exceeds three years. Practical Implications The research has implications for NGOs adopting a shareholder activist campaigning model and for policy makers aiming to encourage investor stewardship. Originality/value The fact that the research field of NGO socio-ethical shareholder activism is relatively new and under-explored by academia, coupled with the growing incidence of the phenomenon in the UK and across the world, as well as its potential benefits for society as a whole, renders further investigation into the topic necessary.
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Tungohan, Ethel. "The Transformative and Radical Feminism of Grassroots Migrant Women's Movement(s) in Canada." Canadian Journal of Political Science 50, no. 2 (June 2017): 479–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423917000622.
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AbstractI argue in this article that migrant workers’ resistance to neoliberalism, as seen through their participation in the migrant organizations highlights their ability to establish ‘spaces of power’ amid debilitating living and working conditions. This, then, illustrates how feminism in the 21st century is alive and well. In fact, the strengths of their activism show the transformative and radical possibilities of feminism by highlighting that structural transformations, and not only liberal attempts at inclusion, are necessary for gender justice.
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Kopacheva, Elizaveta. "Predicting online participation through Bayesian network analysis." PLOS ONE 16, no. 12 (December 23, 2021): e0261663. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261663.
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Despite the fact that preconditions of political participation were thoroughly examined before, there is still not enough understanding of which factors directly affect political participation and which factors correlate with participation due to common background variables. This article scrutinises the causal relations between the variables associated with participation in online activism and introduces a three-step approach in learning a reliable structure of the participation preconditions’ network to predict political participation. Using Bayesian network analysis and structural equation modeling to stabilise the structure of the causal relations, the analysis showed that only age, political interest, internal political efficacy and no other factors, highlighted by the previous political participation research, have direct effects on participation in online activism. Moreover, the direct effect of political interest is mediated by the indirect effects of internal political efficacy and age via political interest. After fitting the parameters of the Bayesian network dependent on the received structure, it became evident that given prior knowledge of the explanatory factors that proved to be most important in terms of direct effects, the predictive performance of the model increases significantly. Despite this fact, there is still uncertainty when it comes to predicting online participation. This result suggests that there remains a lot to be done in participation research when it comes to identifying and distinguishing factors that stimulate new types of political activities.
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Bollas, Angelos. "Literature as Activism - From Entertainment to Challenging Social Norms: Michael Nava’s Goldenboy (1988)." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 9, no. 1 (January 31, 2020): 50. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.9n.1p.50.
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The aim of this article is to examine how Michael Nava appropriates the conventions of Detective/Crime Fiction to engage in artivism, whereby art is used to challenge sexual and ethnic social oppression and inequality. By providing an analysis of the heteronormative conventions of the Detective and Crime Fiction genre, the article focuses on the ways in which narratives portray homophobic violence, as well as on the fact that such portrayals result from and contribute to the promotion of heteronormative hegemonies. Following this, I focus on Michael Nava’s Goldenboy (1988) and I analyse Nava’s writing in relation to the wider Chicano tradition of using art to engage in activism, what has been termed as ‘artivism.’ The central argument of this paper is that Nava ‘queers’ the form of the Detective Fiction genre to highlight the shortcomings of our society, the effects of the hegemonial heteronormativity, and the need for social change.
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Lawless, Jennifer L., and Richard L. Fox. "A Trump Effect? Women and the 2018 Midterm Elections." Forum 16, no. 4 (December 19, 2018): 569–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/for-2018-0038.
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Abstract From the moment Donald Trump took the oath of office, women’s political engagement skyrocketed. This groundswell of activism almost immediately led to widespread reporting that Trump’s victory was inspiring a large new crop of female candidates across the country. We rely on a May 2017 national survey of “potential candidates” and the 2018 midterm election results to assess whether this “Trump Effect” materialized. Our analysis uncovers some evidence for it. Democrats – especially women – held very negative feelings toward Trump, and those feelings generated heightened political interest and activity during the 2018 election cycle. That activism, however, was not accompanied by a broad scale surge in women’s interest in running for office. In fact, the overall gender gap in political ambition today is quite similar to the gap we’ve uncovered throughout the last 20 years. Notably, though, about one quarter of the Democratic women who expressed interest in running for office first started thinking about it only after Trump was elected. That relatively small group of newly interested candidates was sufficient to result in a record number of Democratic women seeking and winning election to Congress. With no commensurate increase in Republican women’s political engagement or candidate emergence, however, prospects for gender parity in US political institutions remain bleak.
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Miles, Kathryn. "Get Up, Stand Up: Teaching Civil Disobedience in the Literature Classroom." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 124, no. 3 (May 2009): 864–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2009.124.3.864.
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In his presidential address at the 1970 MLA convention, Maynard Mack sounded a warning bell concerning activism and the future of literary studies. Faced with a seemingly endless conflict in Vietnam and a national student body growing polarized in its response to this war, higher education, including language-based pedagogy, was in crisis. Of particular concern to Mack was a growing generational disconnect over the role of activism in the literature classroom. He cited a landmark study in which nearly two-thirds of all professors over the age of thirty maintained that any foray into politics should be avoided, if not altogether prohibited, in formal course work. The younger generation disagreed: two-thirds of them, in fact, felt a moral and pedagogical obligation to use colleges and universities as loci for social change. This ideological divide, Mack predicted, would soon create “a crisis of authority in the offing beside which all current manifestations would look pale” (365).
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Nomura, Ko. "Antiwhaling Groups in Japan: Their Historical Lack of Development and Relationship With National Identity." Journal of Environment & Development 29, no. 2 (October 8, 2019): 223–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1070496519878218.
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This article reviews the history of antiwhaling groups in Japan from a politicocultural perspective, examining how the connection between whaling and national identity has significantly constrained their development. It is interesting to note that this connection, or “framing,” in terms of social movement theory, was not an invention of the prowhaling camp. It was rather induced and facilitated by Western activists’ protests, which have been unwelcome in Japanese political culture, making the antiwhaling cause come across as “foreign.” In fact, Japanese antiwhaling groups have attempted to counter-frame this by distinguishing themselves from Western activists, emphasizing moderate strategies, limiting their opposition to large-scale modern whaling, and allowing small-scale coastal whaling with a view to detaching the issue from national claims. However, they have not been successful due to prominent foreign protests. This study also suggests the key role of national identity in the success or failure of environmental activism.
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Mukti, Takdir Ali, Laode Muhammad Fathun, Ali Muhammad, Stivani Ismawira Sinambela, and Sugeng Riyanto. "Paradiplomacy Policies and Regional Autonomy in Indonesia and Korea." Jurnal Hubungan Internasional 9, no. 2 (January 18, 2021): 139–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.18196/jhi.v9i2.8931.
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This analysis focuses on the paradiplomatic policies in Indonesia and Korea. The two countries have similar characteristics, namely as unitary state systems, and enacted regional autonomy in the same era, 1998s. This qualitative research aims to examine paradiplomatic types in both countries and why the policies are rationalized. The findings revealed that although both countries are unitary states, paradiplomatic activism runs in different types. Provinces and cities in Indonesia face many restrictions and limitations by national regulations, while regional governments in Korea have more discretions and authorities to practice paradiplomacy around the world. The research finding also portrayed several provinces in Indonesia instrumentalizing paradiplomacy as instruments to provide international recognitions related to self-determination, and this similar fact is not met in Korea. This paper argues that the different types of paradiplomatic policies in both countries are influenced by domestic political conditions and typically influenced by the presence or absence of regional movements.
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Lev-on, Azi. "Polarization of Deliberative and Participatory Activists on Social Media." Media and Communication 10, no. 4 (October 28, 2022): 56–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v10i4.5637.
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The article demonstrates how social media activism polarizes and clusters into distinct deliberative and participatory arenas, using the case study of online activism for justice for Roman Zadorov in Israel. Zadorov was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Still, an overwhelming majority of Israelis think he is innocent, with the social media obstruction-of-justice campaign in his support having raised overwhelming exposure and engagement. Theorists distinguish between participatory and deliberative public processes. Supporters of participatory processes advocate for the participation of multiple stakeholders in addressing public concerns. Supporters of deliberative processes advocate for a thorough evaluation of arguments for and against any course of action before decision-making. This study demonstrates how people congregate online and polarize into deliberative and participatory clusters. The “deliberative” cluster is characteristic of groups led by admins who advocate reaching the truth through exposing relevant information and conducting fact-based deliberation. The “participatory” cluster is characteristic of groups led by admins who believe that their activities should aim exclusively at generating more attention and engagement with the general public.
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Little, Margaret, Lynne Sorrel Marks, Marin Beck, Emma Paszat, and Liza Tom. "Family Matters: Immigrant Women’s Activism in Ontario and British Columbia, 1960s -1980s." Atlantis 41, no. 1 (December 16, 2020): 105–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1074022ar.
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This article uses oral history interviews to explore the ways in which different attitudes towards family and motherhood could create major tensions between mainstream feminists and immigrant women’s activists in Ontario and British Columbia between the 1960s and the 1980s. Immigrant women’s belief in the value of the family did not prevent immigrant women from going out to work to help support their families or accessing daycare and women’s shelters, hard fought benefits of the women’s movement. However, these women demanded access to job training, English language classes, childcare, and women’s shelters on their own terms, in ways that minimized the racism they faced, respected religious and cultural values, and respected the fact that the heterosexual family remained an important resource for the majority of immigrant women.
Immigrant women activists were less likely to accept a purely gender-based analysis than mainstream feminists. They often sought to work with men in their own communities, even in dealing with violence against women. And issues of violence and of reproductive rights often could not be understood only within the boundaries of Canada. For immigrant women violence against women was often analyzed in relation to political violence in their homelands, while demands for fully realized reproductive rights drew on experiences of coercion both in Canada and transnationally.
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Finn, Sarah. "Broadening the Scope of Community Engagement." Pedagogy 21, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 159–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15314200-8692754.
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This article explored a community-engaged, first-year writing course that partnered students with student activist groups on campus at Northeastern University in Boston. Their placement with peers connected them with the campus network and illuminated the ways that they could advocate for social justice in their new community. Students wrote in multiple genres as they attended the meetings and events of different groups involved with environmentalism, food justice, adjunct rights, and more. As students connected their social-change work to the classroom, they learned more about different genres of writing, from scholarly inquiries to multi-modal “deliverables” supporting their student groups. These final “deliverables” included posters, videos, prezis, banners, and even original music to be played at meetings or events. The fact that student worked with peers alleviated some common challenges of community-engaged learning, such as a sense of saviorhood. Instead, students felt a sense of civic investment and developed rhetorical flexibility that they implemented in the classroom and with their groups. Students found the course meaningful and valued the opportunity to get involved with campus activism. As they developed as activists and writers, students felt that the classroom and community spheres overlapped and informed each other.
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Jóhannsdóttir, Ásta. "Body hair and its entanglement: Shame, choice and resistance in body hair practices among young Icelandic people." Feminism & Psychology 29, no. 2 (May 2019): 195–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959353518815706.
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Iceland's performance on the Gender Gap Index has been outstanding in the last nine years. It now has a reputation for being one of the most gender equal countries in the world. However, local feminist activists argue that challenges to full gender equality remain. Underlying both the dominant gender equality rhetoric and feminist activism is a neoliberal, postfeminist sensibility that all are free to choose their most preferred body practices and that empowerment is a fact. There are, however, more subtle indications that young people's views of body hair practices, hinging around binaristic gender norms, are more ambivalent than that. This paper investigates how body hair practices are performed among young Icelandic people. The theoretical framework draws on feminist, poststructuralist, and affect theories. The data was collected between 2012 and 2016 and consists of semi-structured interviews with young women and men, group interviews with five young women based on co-operative inquiry, and an instrumental case study focusing on the issue of body hair practices. The analysis shows that shame and disgust remain entangled with practices around body hair among both men and women. It is gendered in that women's bodies are under more surveillance than men's. The paper concludes that, notwithstanding feminist activism and gender equality rhetoric, policing around body hair practices still exists in contemporary Icelandic society.
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Challand, Benoît. "A NAHḌA OF CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS? HEALTH SERVICE PROVISION AND THE POLITICS OF AID IN PALESTINE." International Journal of Middle East Studies 40, no. 2 (May 2008): 227–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743808080525.
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Until recently, the topic of charitable organizations seemed to have fallen in disgrace. Social scientists have given little attention to this sector of associational life. Instead, a great deal has been written on the issues of democratization through pressure groups or on the transformation of social movements into professional organizations while assessing the overall impact of development promoted by donors. Yet three signs point to the need for a better understanding of charitable organizations. First, new research studying Islamic activism through the lens of social-movement literature has offered innovative results. Second, studies on the impact of aid during the second intifada have revealed that charitable organizations as well as Islamic organizations offered a significant amount of emergency support, sometimes competing with professional nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Finally, the fact that Hamas, also known for running a vast network of charitable organizations, achieved such a significant political success in the 2005 municipal and 2006 legislative elections should invite social scientists to consider whether and how political momentum can also be obtained through activism in the charitable sector.
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Siles-Brügge, Gabriel, and Michael Strange. "National Autonomy or Transnational Solidarity? Using Multiple Geographic Frames to Politicize EU Trade Policy." Politics and Governance 8, no. 1 (March 31, 2020): 277–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i1.2649.
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The article contributes to our understanding of how trade is politicized and how civil society activists manage the tensions between multiple collective action frames in a complex political context. When viewed alongside the Brexit referendum and Trump’s US Presidency, it is easy to see the 2013–2016 campaign against a European Union–US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership as a further example of an apparently growing populist ‘nationalism.’ Yet, in the European context—where campaigning was most visible—there was in fact extensive reliance on, and re-iteration of, a transnational ‘European’ frame, with antecedents in the 1999–2006 campaign against General Agreement on Trade in Services negotiations. As the article argues, transnational campaigning operates within a nexus of multiple, and sometimes conflicting, geographic frames. In both campaigns discussed here, activists typically engaged with the wider public via the national context and, sometimes, with allusions to ‘national autonomy.’ However, their activism was dependent upon a frame espousing ‘transnational solidarity.’ Developed over time, this structured their transnational relations with other groups and more full-time activists.
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DEORI, MANOJ, and SUNIL K. BEHERA. "Youth activism through Social media in Assam: An Exploratory Study." Dev Sanskriti Interdisciplinary International Journal 4 (July 31, 2014): 08–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.36018/dsiij.v4i0.40.
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The paper is an attempt to study the online participation behavior of youth in Assam in organizing social and political protests through Social media. During several protest demonstrations and rallies which took place in the middle of the year, 2012; there has been a series of cyber activism that took place prior to the street demonstrations and rallies. The paper attempts to justify the fact that, the street demonstrations and rallies which took place during that particular period, gained its momentum largely through Social Media. Therefore the period can be regarded as the beginning of cyber activism in Assam, since such online activities in publicizing and organizing any collective action in the physical world with regards to activism was not seen in the past. Based on the data collected through onsite surveys, such online communities have considerably given rise to new forms of collective action such as on/offline social and political protest in Assam through social media by publicizing and organizing people where the predominance of the youths is distinctly visible. It is seen that, there has been an increasing number of cyber activism among the online ‘Assamese’ youth communities which has apparently given raise to cyber-civil societies in urban areas. The predominance of youth in such protests is visible, since the use of social media has become a popular culture among the youth. About 17% of the Indian populations are between 15 and 24 and they are experiencing the changes brought by the New Media technology. In examining the practices on social media, authors focus primarily on “Facebook”, which is the most popular social networking site in social media. Series of protest took place in the months of July, August and September, 2012 against unethical media practices; particularly the television media in Assam. Eventually protests against the insecurity of the women in Guwahati, the capital city of Assam and protest against illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in Assam were also demonstrated on the streets of Assam which gathered huge civic support. Few youth groups from Assam were also established who organized themselves through social networking sites to raise street demonstrations, along with certain other political parties, NGOs and offline civil society groups. The paper mainly studies the participation of youth in such protests and reflects on the case studies which can be regarded as the beginning of youth cyber activism that apparently gained momentum through social media in Assam.