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Williams, Matthew S. "Strategizing Against Sweatshops: The Anti-Sweatshop Movement and the Global Economy." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/1416.
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Thesis advisor: William A. GamsonIn this dissertation, I examine the strategic evolution of the US anti-sweatshop movement, particularly United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) and the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC). While scholars of social movements have analyzed individual tactics used by movements, they have only recently begun to look at the larger question of strategy--how movements make choices about which tactics to use when and how they link these tactics together into a larger plan to alter macro-level power relations in society. This dissertation is one of the first empirical examinations of the processes by which particular groups have developed their strategy. I look at how ideology and values, a sophisticated analysis of the structure of the apparel industry, strategic models for action handed down from past movements, and the movement's decision-making structures interacted in the deliberations of anti-sweatshop activists to produce innovative strategies. I also focus on how the larger social environment, especially the structure of the apparel industry, has shaped the actions of the movement. In seeking to bring about change, the anti-sweatshop movement had to alter the policies of major apparel corporations, decision-making arenas typically closed to outside, grassroots influence. They did so by finding various points of leverage--structural vulnerabilities--that they could use against apparel companies. One of the most important was USAS's successful campaign to get a number of colleges and universities to implement pro-labor codes of conduct for the apparel companies who had lucrative licensing contracts with these schools. In USAS's campaigns to support workers at particular sweatshops fighting for their rights, they could then use the threat of a suspension or revocations of these contracts--and therefore a loss of substantial profits--as a means to pressure apparel companies to protect the workers' rights. This combination of strategic innovation and access to points of leverage has allowed the US anti-sweatshop movement to win some victories against much more powerful foes
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2010
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Sociology
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Morena, Edouard. "The Confederation Paysanne as 'peasant' movement : re-appropriating 'peasantness' for the advancement of organisational interests." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2011. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-confederation-paysanne-as-peasant-movement(0c81f776-ea63-4fd8-8139-d49d5caaaaf8).html.
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As a founding member of the Via Campesina (1993) and active participant in the Global Justice Movement (the altermondialiste movement in France), the Confederation paysanne (CP) - which literally stands for 'peasant confederation' - has been presented in academic and activist circles as a key player in the struggle against neoliberal globalisation, and as a contributor to the emergence of new transnational activist networks and a 'global civil society'. As a trade union representing the interests of 'peasants', the CP has been praised as an innovative form of professional organisation whose originality lies in its ability to defend farmers' interests while at the same time responding to a broader set of challenges for the planet and those who populate it (environmental degradation, cultural homogeneity, social injustice). As a result, the CP - and in particular its emblematic leader Jose Bove - was rapidly propelled to the forefront of a new progressive avant-garde whose discourse on the cultural and economic threats of neoliberalism found a positive echo in farming and non-farming circles alike. -- Yet, as I shall argue throughout the following pages, the CP's success was not only related to its successful response to the new challenges for the 'peasantry' and society but also to its re-appropriation of popular and essentialist representations of 'peasantness' as a timeless and intrinsically egalitarian condition. From the moment that we recognise this, our understanding of the union's evolving popularity changes. Many observers and activists, for example, explained the CP's disappointing result in the 2007 professional elections by arguing that the CP was ahead of its time.
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Hein, James Everett. "Movement-Countermovement Dynamics in the Global Warming Policy Conflict." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338406978.
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Perry, Damon Lee. "The global Muslim Brotherhood in Britain : a social movement?" Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2016. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-global-muslim-brotherhood-in-britain(05f199f6-23d4-40c6-b0c6-a7cc0d54a3d7).html.
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‘Non-violent Islamist extremism’ has become an important political issue in Britain in recent years. Since 2011, with the government’s counter-radicalisation strategy, Prevent, non-violent Islamist groups have been considered as a security risk for spreading a divisive ideology that can lead to violence. Concerns with these groups intensified in 2014 for their alleged role in providing the ‘mood music’ for the radicalisation of British Muslims joining the Islamic State’s insurgency. Yet, terrorism isn’t the only concern regarding non-violent Islamists in Britain. In the last few years, the government has expressed concerns about their impact on social cohesion and civil liberties, including women’s rights. It has also voiced concerns regarding non-violent Islamist extremism and entryism within key British institutions. In 2015, it created the Extremism Analysis Unit—the first official body dedicated to study violent and non-violent extremism—and published its first ‘Counter-Extremism Strategy’. The key protagonists of non-violent Islamist extremism allegedly include groups and individuals associated with the Muslim Brotherhood and Jama’at-i-Islami. Some analysts describe them as part of the ‘global Muslim Brotherhood’, but do they constitute a singular phenomenon, a social movement? Adopting a conceptual approach informed by New Social Movement theory and the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, this thesis answers this question affirmatively, detailing how such groups and individuals are networked organisationally, bonded through ideological and cultural kinship, and united in a conflict of values with the British society and state. Using original interviews with prominent movement leaders, as well as primary sources, this thesis shows how it is not so much ‘Islamist’, in aspiring for an Islamic state, but concerned with institutionalising an Islamic worldview and moral framework throughout society. Its conflict with the government does not simply concern the control of state institutions, but the symbolic authority to legitimise a way of seeing, thinking and living.
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Penna, Nigel Timothy. "Monitoring land movement at UK tide gauge sites using GPS." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362916.
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Dodgson, Richard Paul. "The women's health movement and the international conference on population and development : global social movement, population and the changing nature of international relations." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285376.
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Franklin, K. J. (Kirk James). "The Wycliffe global alliance - from a U.S. based international mission to a global movement for Bible translation." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/32974.
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This thesis deals with the complex question of how global Christian mission
organizations must learn to function, especially the Wycliffe Global Alliance (WGA). I
summarize how the Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT) began in 1942 as the
resourcing organization for the Summer Institute of Linguistics (now called SIL
International) and how their mutual founder, American William Cameron Townsend,
was influenced by Western mission strategy and conservative evangelical theology.
The changing global context is impacting how the missio Dei takes place and this is
influencing how mission agencies interact with each other and the church worldwide.
This is leading to new paradigms of how mission is conceptualized around the world.
The thesis outlines how the changing global context has forced Wycliffe to reevaluate
its place in the world because, half a century after its formation, the church
has new homes in the global South and East. It follows that as a Western mission,
Western resources have decreased and this has shaped how Wycliffe Bible
Translators (International) has now become Wycliffe Global Alliance (WGA).
However, this goes beyond a mere change of name and has resulted in a type of
structure that enables it to better engage with the church worldwide.
The thesis also examines the complexity of contextualization in the global
environment, noting how different languages and cultures are involved, each with its
own rules and subtleties. I show how the shift of the centre of gravity of the church to
the global South and East presents new theological challenges for the Bible
translation effort and these directly impact WGA.
There are many missiological implications for WGA that come from influences in
church history regarding the importance of language, the translatability of the gospel,
the history of Bible translation and how missional reflection is necessary in various
situations. These merge together to provide new implications which are influenced
by globalization for mission agencies such as WGA.
The thesis also emphasises that WGA is a global mission movement, so I have
identified methods of leadership development and structure, all of which are critical
to WGA’s effectiveness and involvement in the missio Dei. I show that forming global
mission leaders is unique and complex, and how the leaders must embrace a wide
variety of qualities, skills and capabilities, especially in responding to greater cultural
diversity. Since most leadership principles are culturally bound, this creates
obstacles in cross-cultural situations. Therefore, I emphasize that a successful
multicultural organization like WGA must learn to focus on both worldwide and local
objectives.
The thesis outlines how theological, missiological, cultural, contextual and leadership
values converge and therefore reshape a mission movement like WGA. My
conclusion is that none of these influences can be ignored – all are relevant. Each
must be reflected upon in order to provide directions for WGA as it seeks to be
faithful to its vision and serve the global church.Dissertation (MA Theol)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Chesters, Graeme S., and I. Welsh. "The death of collective identity? Global movement as a parallelogram of forces." International Centre for Participation Studies, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/3799.
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yesThis paper brings together a number of theoretical and political interests we have with the concept of global movements and the alter-globalisation, anticapitalist, and social justice movements in particular (Chesters & Welsh, 2004, 2005, 2006). The argument contained in this paper is that these movements are the emergent outcome of complex processes of interaction, encounter and exchange facilitated and mediated by new technologies of mobility and communication and they suggest the emergence of a post-representational cultural politics qualitatively different from the identity based social movements of the past.
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Laha, Somjita. "(In) formality in e-waste movement & management in the global economy." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/in-formality-in-ewaste-movement-and-management-in-the-global-economy(fa1b9572-53d3-4f0a-bb13-e594c828a41a).html.
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This thesis unpacks the dynamic nature and architecture of the global e-waste (electronic and electrical waste) recycling network. It analyses the functions of formal (guided by regulatory apparatus) and informal sectors (usually outside the regulatory orbit) involved in waste production and processing and their structural inter-linkages to situate the process and practise of informality in e-waste in the realm of formal capitalist economy. Additionally, it investigates the impact of regulatory interventions on the waste network and the actors therein. It focuses on the spatiality of waste treatment where the narrative of the physical material starts in the formal sector of electronics manufacturing and consumption and travels along quasi-legal channels of e-scrap trade and traffic to reach the informal sector (often in developing countries) for its end-of-life management. Till date, the systemic interconnections between formality and informality in waste processing operations have not been analysed in the waste scholarship. Despite critically reviewing the widespread presence and preponderance of informality with its definite characteristics, the literature has largely disregarded its relationship with formality and the broader lexicon of production and exchange. This research addresses this important omission in the literature and examines the drivers of informality and myriad formal-informal associations in e-waste transfer and treatment in the changing contours of the global economy. The following research question guides the structure and argument of this thesis. Main Research Question: What drives informality in e-waste movement and management?The research follows the trajectory of the international waste stream and examines how these path(way)s are embedded in the socio-economic processes of formality and informality. It uses the qualitative field work conducted in Netherlands, Belgium and India (Delhi) in 2011 and 2012. The fieldwork covers all the stakeholders engaged directly or indirectly in the e-waste network starting with the manufacturers, consumers to the traders, collectors, dismantlers, recyclers and second-hand sellers in both formal and informal sectors as well as the state and NGOs. The production, distribution and consumption of electronics, its waste and the recovered elements are not disjoint despite their apparent dispersion across geographical and political borders. Rather it is a functionally and organizationally inter-connected network characterised by a continuum of formal-informal material transfer, socio-economic transactions and financial arrangements between different players performing diverse functions. The analytical foundation of this study is laid by the Global Production Network (GPN) approach which follows the spatial e-waste flow in the post-consumption stage and locates the role and position of the various actors engaged in the process. It deconstructs the inter-connections between the formal and the informal actors by drawing on the rich formality-informality discourse. It uses the Global Value Chain (GVC) framework to specifically interrogate the vertical and horizontal governance patterns and power imbalances between the different players and additionally employs the idea of informal social networks from the industrial clusters literature to understand the ties of family, kinship and community between them. The study also engages with the diverse (re)valuations of e-waste and the (re)creation of secondary products that are used for further consumption and production. The value generated, circulated and captured in the waste recycling stream by the participating actors is understood using the Marxian exposition of circuits of capital. The e-waste network is institutionally embedded in particular geographical settings, socio-cultural milieus and regulatory framework leading to spatially differential comprehensions and treatment of e-waste. The roles of the regulatory and civic initiatives in conditioning and configuring this network are scrutinised to deliberate on the different paradigms of its management. The research illustrates that the fluidity between formality and informality in waste processing is crucial in (re)fashioning and (re)constructing waste for further use. It suggests that commodity production, consumption, waste generation and treatment are conjoined internationally in which value is created and circulated across sectoral and geographical boundaries. In effect, it reflects on the politics and practices of waste production and management and questions the design and enforcement of state policies towards eco-friendly processing of e-waste.
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Whalen, Mitchell. "Characterising the movement patterns of women's beach volleyball using global positioning systems." Thesis, Griffith University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/384915.
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The aim of this thesis was to describe the movement patterns of women’s beach volleyball using global positioning systems (GPS) technology. This aim was completed in two parts: Part A involved the investigation of the level of agreement between an emerging GPS system (VX Sport VX235 Log, Visuallex Sport International Ltd, Lower Hutt, New Zealand) and a well- established GPS system (Catapult MinimaxX S4, Catapult Innovations, Melbourne Australia). We recruited five semi-professional beach volleyball athletes who wore the two GPS units (sampling at 10 Hz) simultaneously during a training session which involved beach volleyball drills and simulated match-play. A paired sample t-test with statistical significant set to p<0.05 was applied to examine whether differences existed in the measurements of total distance (m), average speed (m∙min-1), max velocity (m∙s-1) and the distance (m) covered in five distinct velocity zones during a beach volleyball training session between the two different brands of GPS units. Significantly greater average speed (38.3 ± 5.66 m∙min-1, p = 0.009), and the distance covered between speeds of 4-8 km∙h-1 (248 ± 207 m, p = 0.008) and 16-20.5 km∙h-1 (8.78 ± 7.40 m, p = 0.006) were reported by the Catapult S4 units compared to the VX235 GPS units (35.9 ± 3.45 m∙min-1, 206 ± 168 m and 1.64 ± 2.62 m respectively), in conjunction with the VX235 units reporting a greater max velocity (4.37 ± 0.68 m∙s-1, p = 0.013) compared to the Catapult S4 units (4.07 ± 0.60 m∙s-1). These results demonstrate that differences exists between the emerging VX235 GPS system and the well-established Catapult S4 GPS system for measuring the movement patterns during beach volleyball, supporting the notion that further validation of GPS units against other practically applied and validated athlete movement trackers is required to further understand the ability of GPS systems to measure the movement patterns of beach volleyball.
Part B of this thesis involved the application of the 10 Hz VX235 GPS unit to quantify the movement patterns of women’s beach volleyball match-play. Specifically the VX235 GPS unit was worn by twenty female beach volleyball athletes during competition matches from the U23 Australian beach volleyball championship (n=10) and the Queensland Open tournament (n=10). The results form Part B of this thesis describe women’s beach volleyball athletes as covering a total distance of 555 ± 129 m and an average speed of 36.2 ± 3.2 m∙min-1, in addition to the majority of the distance covered occurred at speeds between 0-3.9 km∙h-1 (274 ± 63.6 m) and 3.9-7.8 km∙h-1 (203 ± 57.3) during match-play. The magnitude of these physical measures resulted in an average heart rate of 159 ± 12.0 bpm and 71.3 ± 30.4% of time with a heart rate ≤168 bpm. An independent sample t-test with statistical significant set to p<0.05 identified minimal difference between the GPS metrics reported between the two domestic beach volleyball tournaments in addition to a significant decrease in the distance-rate of the second set relative to the first set for both the U23 ABVC (36.5 ± 3.86 m∙min-1 and 35.5± 3.86 m∙min-1 respectively, p = 0.018) and QLD Open (37.3 ± 3.23 m∙min-1 and 35.3 ± 3.07 m∙min-1 respectively, p = 0.002). Finally, based on the similarity between the two tournaments the data from each set of both tournament was combined and grouped into sets that finished with a small score margin differential (win and loss <5 points) and a large score margin differential (win and loss >5 points). A paired sample t-test with statistical significant set to p<0.05 identified that with the exception of jump rate, jump count, distance covered accelerating between 0.6-1.5 m∙s-2 and 6.1-8 m∙s-2 and the distance covered decelerating between 1.6-2.5 m∙s-2 and 2.6- 6 m∙s-2, all other metrics of physical performance were significantly greater for the sets that ended with a small score margin (won and lost < 5 points) compared to the sets that ended with a large score margin (won and lost > 5). In addition all physiological measures of heart rate displayed no significant difference between sets that ended with a small score margin and sets that ended with a large score margin with the exception of the percentage of time spent with a heart rate between 80-85% of each athletes age-predicted max heart rate which was significantly greater for sets that ended with a small score margin (25.8 ± 16.3%, p = 0.013) compared to sets that ended with a large score margin (16.0 ± 17.1%). The results from Part B of this thesis were the first to identify the movement patterns of women’s beach volleyball and provide insight into the presence of fatigue and the effect of score margin differential. The results provide information to assist in preparing women’s beach volleyball athletes for the demands they are likely to undertake during competitive match-play.Thesis (Masters)
Master of Medical Research (MMedRes)
School of Medical Science
Griffith Health
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Gamba, Maria <1990>. "Global Marketing Strategy: Diffusion of the Italian Slow Food Movement in Japan." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/4742.
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Global Marketing Strategy: Diffusion of the Italian Slow Food Movement in Japan The purpose of this research is to understand how the Italian image held by consumers in Japan may influence the diffusion of the Slow Food Movement. In chapter one this study presents the research background, raises the Research Question and structure. By using the Marketing theoretical frameworks it argues how consumers in Japan perceive the Slow Food Movement. Chapter two reviews the existing researches in order to construct the hypothesis of this study. First, the Slow Food movement, its history, purposes, practical activities, internationalization process and the new trends inspired by the Movement are reviewed. Secondly, the study points out the influence of mass media on consumer perception on products. Thirdly, the Italian image in Japan is studied in a more specific way, taking into account the characteristics of consumers in Japan, their desire towards the West and Western people and their practical perception of Italy, the Italian cuisine and Italian people. The hypothesis of this study is that the Slow Food movement is presented to and perceived by consumers in Japan as a new trend concerning the Italian food. In chapter three, the methodology of the study is explained. Three surveys are presented, held throughout different modalities: the first one consists in the interview to Carlo Petrini, the founder of Slow Food, to investigate about the way the movement is diffusing its message, facing communication difficulties. In order to study Slow Food marketing campaign, representative members have been interviewed, too. The aim of the second one is to examine media influence in promoting the association, throughout the analysis of journal articles edited by the Asahi Shinbun. The third one will be an internet survey proposed to people in Japan in order to understand their position and feelings towards the West and Western people, their knowledge of the Slow Food movement, their perception about Italy and the consequence the relationship between this factors could have in the marketing sphere. Chapter four analyses the data gathered. In chapter five the study explains the findings. Even if Slow Food is a movement born in Italy, its message aims to be applicable at the global level; but the image held by consumers in Japan towards this country could influence the perception of the original message, leading to perceiving it as a new trend concerning Italian food. The study also argues the theoretical and practical implications and the limitations of this research.
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Mazzon, Anna <1993>. "Cultural organizations focused on sustainability: an analysis outlining an emerging global movement." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/21195.
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In the last years, many cultural organizations are becoming more engaged with sustainability related processes, in line with the changes that are taking place on a broader societal level. Especially after 2015, when the Agenda 2030 has been endorsed by the United Nations, a new awareness spread within the global community on various scales, from the highest political office to the individual citizen. This research presents an analysis of cultural organizations that have made sustainability their main mission, through the development of cross-disciplinary projects that have led to the strengthening of collaborative forms between sectors. As an emerging movement, the characteristics of this sub-sector in the cultural sphere have not yet been studied, so the purpose is to provide an overview of how these organizations work, what kind of relationships they establish with their stakeholders and how their work contributes to building a more just and sustainable society.
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Shukla, Natasha. "Constructing global civil society from below : a case study of learning global citizenship in the Save the Narmada Movement, India." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2009. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10019925/.
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The thesis examines the informal learning of global citizenship in the course of social struggle within grassroots movements, through an ethnographic case study of the Save the Narmada Movement (NBA). The movment, comprising village communities in India, campaigned with the support of international non-governmental organisations to prevent the construction of a World Bank (WB) financed dam. The study arises in response to a perceived marginalisation of grassroots resistances, especially in developing contexts, within empirical accounts of global civil society (GCS), which is conceptualised as a space where 'global citizens' seek to resist and transform the exigencies of economic globalisation. Interrogating the validity of this exclusion, a Gramscian framework is adopted to examine whether, and in what ways grassroots actors are global citizens, engaged in the transformative politics of GCS. Analysis of data emerging from NBA suggests that contestation with political structures at the national (Indian government) and global (WB) level is an important source of learning that leads to the construction of a movement's global citizenship. Through a Gramscian dialectical process of strategic action and reflection, the movement developed a critical awareness of the class character of these institutions, leading NBA to connect its local struggle against the dam to wider struggle against `destructive development and globalisation. This process encouraged a revalorisation of grassroots participants' subjective relationships to the nation-state, leading amongst some, to the rejection of national citizenship in favour of global affiliations. Articulation of global citizenship was based on a counter-hegemonic identification with struggles of the oppressed across the world, rather than a depoliticised 'moral universalism'. However, learning to extend global citizenship to challenging oppression embedded within movement communities is constrained in a context where unity against external oppressors is paramount. By examining the learning processes that led NBA to articulate and perform global citizenship in empowering ways, the thesis points to how grassroots movements are constructing GCS, and therefore contests their current marginalisation within GCS perspectives.
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Silva, Glaucia Peres da. "Mangue: moderno, pós-moderno, global." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8132/tde-01102008-175648/.
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Este trabalho analisa o Mangue como um fenômeno cultural que se distingue temporal e espacialmente de outras manifestações culturais que ocorrem nos âmbitos local, nacional e mundial. Como suas características podem ser pensadas como alguns dos aspectos culturais que marcam nosso tempo presente, suas possibilidades de distinção são analisadas a partir de duas perspectivas: a formação de identidades e a relação com a indústria fonográfica. Parto da hipótese de que o Mangue apresenta facetas modernas, pós-modernas e globalizadas, discutindo-as da perspectiva da arte e sua relação com a economia e a política. A análise sugere, ao final, que estas diferentes temporalidades não são mutuamente excludentes, mas, antes, combinam-se, rearranjando as relações entre as partes para que o todo continue em funcionamentoThis research analyzes the Mangue [Mangroove] as a cultural phenomenon that distinguishes itself from other local, national and world cultural activities in relation to time and space. As Mangues characteristics may be thought in the same fashion of other cultural aspects that characterize our present time, its possibilities of distinction are analyzed from two distinct perspectives: the formation of identities and the relation between Mangue and the phonographic industry. I assume the hypothesis that the Mangue presents modern, post-modern and global facets, and discuss them from the perspective of arts and the relation between arts, economy and politics. Finally, the analysis suggests that these different temporalities are not mutually exclusive, but concur with each other, rearranging the relation between the parts in order to keep the whole at work
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Ibrahim, Yousaf. "Global capitalism and social protest : organisations and participants in the anti-capitalist movement." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496539.
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Washbourne, Neil J. "Beyond iron laws : information technology and social transformation in the global environmental movement." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298929.
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Claus, Laura. "From social enterprise to social movement : organizing for change in the Global South." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283242.
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This dissertation focuses on three different organizational approaches to introducing change in the Global South. In so doing, it explores how organizations can design and structure 'solutions' for deep-rooted social problems and support marginalized groups who lack voice to speak for themselves. Theoretically, I draw on institutional theory and social movement theory, and it is to these perspectives that my research seeks to contribute. Empirically, my work focuses on Tanzania, Indonesia and Nigeria. Studying how and why three different types of organizational forms - including a social enterprise (Paper 1), a quasi-social movement (Paper 2) and a social movement (Paper 3) - succeeded or failed in their attempts to introduce change in the Global South provides an intriguing opportunity to build new theoretical insights and to shed light on strategic and organizational processes about which relatively little is known.
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Anderson, Matthew. "The British Fair Trade Movement, 1960-2000 : a new form of global citizenship?" Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2009. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/512/.
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This thesis is concerned with the development of a Fair Trade social movement in Britain between 1960 – 2000. It situates the analysis of Fair Trade within the context of historical debates about political consumption. It examines the role of the ethical consumer as a political activist and questions whether Fair Trade has led to a new understanding of the meaning of global citizenship. It is argued that contemporary questions about the limitations of Fair Trade as a model for international development should be grounded in an informed understanding of the intellectual and applied origins of the movement. Revisiting the origins of Fair Trade is not only an important academic exercise but provides the movement with an opportunity to reassess its core values. The intellectual origins of the movement are considered with reference to the nineteenth century thinkers and consumer campaigns. Although building on the politics of the past, the messages and organisational structure of Fair Trade represented a new and distinctly modern approach to campaigning more closely aligned with the ‘new social movements’ than traditional labour or consumer politics. The roles of the main actors are explored, including development non-governmental organisations, religious groups, consumer organisations, co-operatives and supermarkets. While acknowledging the consumer at the heart of the Fair Trade movement, it is argued that what is needed is a more nuanced approach to our understanding of ethical consumerism.
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Edwards, William. "MOVEMENT WITHOUT MOTION: THE RHETORIC OF CONSERVATIVE COUNTER-CLAIMS TO GLOBAL WARMING THEORY." VCU Scholars Compass, 2010. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/50.
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Many U.S. conservatives view government mandates to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases as a threat to the economy of the developed world. Conservative think tanks have adopted a common rhetoric to instill doubt about proposed mandates in the minds of elected officials, the media, and the public. Using a survey of the websites of 14 conservative think tanks, this thesis analyzes counter-claims to global warming theory to identify rhetorical artifacts that typically characterize conservative responses to issues, and to show how rhetorical theory can help anticipate the nature of such responses. The research identifies unifying speech codes – such as ideographs and commonplaces – that provide the conservative movement’s appeal. The conclusion is that conservative counter-claims to global warming theory are an application of longstanding principles in a new and transformative way; and that the conservative movement is actually a “new social movement” as described by rhetorical theorists.
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Hardtmann, Eva-Maria. ""Our fury is burning" : local practice and global connections in the Dalit movement /." Stockholm : University of Stockholm, Department of social anthropology, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39960953g.
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Hardtmann, Eva-Maria. "Our Fury is Burning : From Local Practice to Global Connections in the Dalit Movement." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Socialantropologiska institutionen, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-85043.
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Dodd, John Alan. "Social movement unionism? : an analysis of labour organisations strategies in the global political economy." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1664.
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This thesis examines the extent to which the modern labour movement is utilising social movement unionism as a form of organisation in the modern political economy. A multi-level analytical approach utilises a Gramscian inspired theoretical framework to look at developments at the national, regional, and global levels of the labour movement in the modern global political economy. Issues at stake are i) understanding the issues affecting the labour movement in the age of globalisation; ii) the degree to which social movement unionism presents the labour movement a framework for renewal; iii) the extent to which key themes of social movement unionism are being implemented by those within the labour movement at all levels; and iv) whether there exists at present a form of labour organisation that presents a true test for social movement unionism. This thesis adds to contemporary literature by combining analysis of existing academic debates with original primary material (a series of interviews with several key figures within the labour movement), in order that the relevancy of contemporary academic arguments for tangible developments surrounding the labour movement is determined. The insights gained from these interviews are incorporated into the body of this thesis. After an outline of initial points of contextualisation in chapter one, chapter two moves to provide the theoretical framework for this research. Chapter three discusses issues of globalisation that affect the labour movement. The thesis then moves to analyse tangible issues surrounding the labour movement, with chapter four outlining the British labour movement's experiences and responses to challenges faced. Chapter five analyses the degree to which the European level presents a viable framework for the internationalisation of the labour movement, whilst chapter six shifts focus to the global level. At this point it will be argued that non-traditional labour organisations and social forums provide potential catalysts for the widespread adoption of social movement unionism. The final chapter provides concluding arguments and a revisiting of the researches main points.
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Trewby, James. "Journeys to engagement with the UK global justice movement : life stories of activist-educators." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2014. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10021704/.
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This thesis explores how individuals in the UK come to and sustain engagement with global justice issues (such as poverty, development and human rights). It responds to a scarcity of relevant research and a stated desire for greater understanding from those involved in development education and related areas. Relevant literature is used to develop: a working definition of the UK Global Justice Movement; a new conceptual framework for understanding forms of engagement; a ‘route map’ summarising knowledge about individuals’ journeys to engagement; and an understanding of current practice and debates in development education and related fields. Using narrative research techniques, the study then presents five individuals’ life stories with respect to engagement with global justice issues. The respondents come from a range of backgrounds and utilise a number of different forms of engagement, but all act in some way as educators/multipliers of engagement. Their stories are analysed using two different ‘lenses’: together, considering themes relevant to development education, and separately, investigating how concepts related to identity (Social Identity Theory, Identity Theory and Narrative Identity) can be used to understand individuals’ engagement. This analysis includes discussion of: the places in which learning happens; debates concerning learning, criticality and visits overseas; the extent to which respondents might be understood to be development educators themselves; roles they have played; the in- (and out-) groups mentioned; and the various sources of narrative available to each of them over the course of their journeys to and within engagement. Finally, the thesis suggests implications for researchers, policy makers and practitioners. This includes: future use of the concepts developed; further exploration of the potential learning value of ‘low cost’ forms engagement; supporting individuals to engage with different organisations and issues ‘across’ the movement; and, considering possibilities for work with families and faith groups.
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Olsson, Helena. "Mexico’s Anti-Femicide Movement : Comparing Subnational Political Opportunity Structures in Chihuahua, Yucatán and Mexico City." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Internationella relationer, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-34016.
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This paper explores femicide and social movements impact on politics, a phenomenon where national, international and transnational politics overlap. The Mexican anti-femicide movement belongs to the global justice movement and struggle for women’s right to life. This study highlights the differences the movement faces even within a state, on the subnational level, through a comparative and theory developing case study. The variables of mobilization structure and political opportunity are examined in the three cases of the Mexican states Chihuahua, Yucatán and the Federal District. The study indicates the movement’s alliances and its connection between the local and international level in the post-2007 context. The hypothesis which connects the anti-femicide movement as part of the political opportunity on subnational level and varying rates of femicide is explored. The study concludes that the aspects of repression, threats of violence and impunity, aspect most prominent in Chihuahua, impact the anti-femicide movement and consequently femicide rates to some extent.
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Chan, Wai-ling Jenny. "The labor politics of market socialism a collective action in a global workplace in South China /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37229631.
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Raza, Muhammad Ali. "Interrogating provincial politics : the Leftist Movement in Punjab, c. 1914-1950." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fdc1fc64-98d7-46e1-8cee-387fa56dfa7e.
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This thesis examines the development of the Leftist movement in British Punjab and the insights it provides into the political spaces it inhabited and the actors it engaged with. Broadly speaking, this is an attempt at uncovering lesser fragments that offer the possibility of complicating our understanding of Punjabi and South Asian History. In doing so, I seek to uncover a socio-political arena which played host to a multiplicity of contested identities, notions of sovereignty, and political objectives. I thus seek to explore this complex and fluid arena through the study of a variety of movements and intellectual strands, all of which can collectively be labelled as the ‘Left.’ I begin by situating the Punjabi Left within the wider global arena and then shift to examining it within the province itself. I then explore the Left’s acrimonious relationship with the Colonial State as well as its tortured engagements with ‘nationalist’ and ‘communitarian’ movements. Taken together, this thesis, aside from enhancing our understanding of the ‘Left’ itself, also contributes to regional studies in general and questions historiographical demarcations and the categories that are normatively employed in standard political histories.
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Paiva, Godinho Raquel. "Open Device Labs - a global community movement to democratise testing and evaluation on real devices." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/668637.
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Han sorgit xarxes de laboratoris oberts a tothom i caracteritzats per la seva activitat
local i connectivitat global per atendre diferents demandes del usuaris. Open Device
Labs (ODLs) és un moviment comunitari de base que té per objectiu democratitzar les
proves i l'avaluació en dispositius digitals reals, que fins ara havia estat inexplorat. Els
ODLs són un espai normalment equipat amb dispositius mòbils (per exemple: telèfons
intel·ligents i tauletes tàctils) connectats a Internet amb la finalitat que els usuaris
puguin fer proves de d’aplicacions web, jocs, i mòbils. L’objectiu d’aquesta tesi ha estat
investigar l'ecosistema dels Open Device Labs per tal de presentar-ne les seves
principals característiques, pràctiques, beneficis i reptes. La recerca s’ha realitzat
mitjançant una investigació qualitativa d’estudi de casos i s’ha dividit en quatre unitats
centrals. La secció I va explorar l’ecosistema d’ODLs, el local i el global, a través del
nucli de la comunitat des de la perspectiva dels amfitrions i centrat en els ODL
professionals. La secció II va investigar la perspectiva que tenen els usuaris convidats
dels ODLs sobre el servei. La secció III va explorar el potencial de la comunitat per
beneficiar-se de la indústria del joc. Per últim, la secció IV presenta un marc per
establir ODL acadèmics.Open labs networks characterised by local activity and global connectivity have emerged to address different demands. Open Device Labs (ODLs) is a grass-roots community movement, which aims to democratise testing and evaluation on real devices, thus far unexplored academically. An ODL is a space typically equipped with mobile devices (e.g. smartphones and tablets) connected to the Internet for Web and app testing purposes. This PhD thesis investigates the ODL ecosystem to identify its main characteristics, practices, benefits, and challenges. We conducted a qualitative inductive case study through four main units. Section I explores the ODL ecosystem, both local and global, through the community core from the hosts’ perspective and focuses on professional ODLs. Section II discusses the investigation of the ODL’s guest users’ perspective of the service. Section III explores the potential of the community to benefit the gaming industry. Section IV examines a single case of an academic ODL. Lastly, the final section presents a framework for establishing academic ODLs.
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Christensen, Julie A. "More Than Duffle Bag Medicine: An Ethnographic Analysis of a Student Movement for Global Health." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1368735040.
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Rupp, Theresa, and Verena Hillekamp. "Environmental Business. : Green Marketing and Industry 5.0 as movement towards global-wellbeing in business processes." Thesis, Jönköping University, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-52928.
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Background: Green Marketing faces an upward trend; global well-being becomes more and more important while at the same time the new age of Industry 5.0 is ahead. All those components contribute to increasing environmental business activities. Purpose: The purpose of the study is to elaborate under which considerations Green Marketing can be successfully implemented by businesses in respect of the changing environmental processes lead by Industry 5.0 and the associated movement towards environmental and global well-being. Method: This study is of qualitative nature and follows an inductive interpretivist approach. The literature review as secondary research data is complemented by primary data conducted through mixed methods of expert interviews and a focus group. Conclusion: Likewise, opportunities and challenges within environmental business appear. The developed framework illustrates the interconnection inter alia of green marketing and Industry 5.0 that contribute to a successful execution to reach global well-being. Summarizing a holistic approach towards global well-being is indispensable.
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Kahn, Richard Vernon. "The ecopedagogy movement from global ecological crisis to cosmological, technological, and organizational transformation in education /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1481673071&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Bai, Jie. "Robust navigation algorithms for aircraft precision approach, landing and surface movement using global navigation satellite systems." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.501434.
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NIEMEYER, CAROLINA BURLE DE. "CONTESTING GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: THE TRANSNATIONAL SOCIAL MOVEMENT VIA CAMPESINA AND ITS RELATIONS WITH FAO AND OMC." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2006. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=9463@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
CONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
Na era da globalização, a sociedade civil é um ator cada vez mais relevante na política global e, dentre estes, a Rede Transnacional de Movimentos Sociais Via Campesina seria um exemplo dos mais emblemáticos. Esta rede, de composição heterogênea, é formada por movimentos sociais representativos de atores marginalizados em suas respectivas sociedades, unidos no propósito comum de lutar pela implantação de um novo modelo de desenvolvimento que, baseado na Soberania Alimentar, substitua o padrão neoliberal vigente. Esta dissertação visa investigar a capacidade de a Via Campesina influenciar as negociações de agricultura e desenvolvimento em nível internacional. Para tal, elegemos as suas relações com duas das principais instituições internacionais a negociarem o tema da agricultura em nível internacional: a FAO e a OMC. Além deste objetivo principal, temos a intenção de mostrar que a relevância da Via Campesina vai além da sua relação com atores estatais. Com esta intenção, abordamos a relação de influência mútua da rede com as organizações locais que a compõem; a sua interação com ONGs e institutos de pesquisa e a sua participação em fóruns sociais. Neste percurso, avaliamos os antecedentes, motivações e evolução da rede; além de mencionar as suas principais campanhas, dentre as quais, privilegiamos a Campanha Sementes contra a agricultura transgênica.
In the age of globalization, civil society becomes a major player in global politics. We find between these players, the Transnational Network of Social Movements, Via Campesina, which is one of the most emblematic examples. This is an heterogeneous network formed by social movements composed by actors, which are kept apart by their own societies, united by a common purpose of fighting for the implementation of a new model of development based on the idea of food sovereignty which could replace the actual neoliberal model. This essay seeks to investigate the capacity of Via Campesina to influence the agricultural and development negotiations at the international level. For that purpose, we investigate its relationships with two of the main international institutions, which negotiate the agricultural matter at the international level: the FAO and the WTO. Further on, we want to demonstrate that the Via Campesina´s relevance goes beyond its relationship with state players. With this intention, we tackle the relation of mutual influence with the local organizations from witch they are built; its interaction with NGOs and research institutes and its participation in social forums. One way to get to this question is to evaluate the backgrounds, motivations and the network evolutions; we mention, moreover, its main campaigns, among which, we favor the Seeds Campaign against the transgenic agriculture.
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Kostytska, I., V. Kostytsky, V. Sydor, and A. Sukhodolska. "The Issue of Restricting Freedom of Movement in the Face of the Global COVID-19 Pandemic." Thesis, Національний авіаційний університет, 2021. https://er.nau.edu.ua/handle/NAU/48711.
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The conflict between anthropocentric and sociocentric activities of the State is vividly reflected in the situation that has arisen against the backdrop of the global problem – the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. The spread of epidemics and pandemics, both local and global, has been a challenge to humanity for millennia, and only the decisive steps of the authorities and the cooperation of international organizations have been able to fight against epidemics and pandemics.
The socio-economic challenges of global development (imbalances in the economic development of different countries, poverty and hunger, low incomes in many countries, make it impossible to pay for medical services, buy essential medicines, provide healthy and nutritious food and provide an adequate level of immunity; ethnic movements of people; world economic crises; participation of the State in international trade and inability of the domestic economy to meet its needs, particularly public health needs; low financial provision of health care.
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Berz, Gerhard E. "Integration of differential global positioning system and an inertial navigation system for aircraft surface movement guidance." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1176841429.
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Zhang, Lu. "Transnational Feminisms in Translation: The Making of a Women’s Anti-Domestic Violence Movement in China." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1210773765.
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Meleagrou-Hitchens, Alexander Yannis. "The global jihad movement in the West : a study of Anwar al-Awlaki and his followers in the context of homegrown radicalisation and the global jihadist Western recruitment strategy." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2016. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-global-jihad-movement-in-the-west(17eb637c-94f3-439c-9bd5-7f8c1ad448f9).html.
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This PhD explores the growth and spread of the global jihad movement in the West and its success in radicalising Western Muslims. In order to explain this phenomenon it analyses the work of one of the movement’s most influential English-speaking ideologues, Anwar al-Awlaki. This will reveal how he “Westernised” global jihadist ideology so that it could be made more accessible to his audience. The primary aim of this study is to demonstrate how Awlaki’s success in making the key tenets of global jihadist ideology accessible to Westerners impacted upon the radicalisation process of homegrown jihadists. In the first instance, this study will place Awlaki in the context of a decades-long effort by global jihadist strategists to create a social movement capable of appealing to audiences around the globe. In order for this strategy to succeed in the West, the movement required an effective interpreter and the thesis will show how Awlaki was able to fulfil this role by pursuing a number of processes related to social movement leadership. The subsequent analysis of Awlaki’s work will shed light on both his own radicalisation from non-violent Islamist to global jihadist and his later efforts to spread this violent ideology in the West. Following this, a number of individual cases of Western Muslim radicalisation will be analysed, showing how Awlaki influenced their decision-making process. This approach will allow the author to highlight the importance of an increased emphasis on the connection between extremist ideas and violent action, which it will be argued lies at the heart of homegrown jihadist radicalisation in the West.
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Rothermel, Jonathan Christopher. "Solidarity Sometimes: Globalization, Transnationalism, and the Labor Movement." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/70450.
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Political SciencePh.D.
This dissertation investigates the role of global labor in international relations. I argue that global labor is mainly comprised of two parts: national union organizations and Global Unions. Global Unions are transnational labor organizations (TLOs) with a worldwide membership that were created by national union organizations to represent their interests internationally. I contend that Global Unions perform five interrelated functions for national unions. However, due to the inherent structural weaknesses of Global Unions, it is the national unions that, in fact, remain the critical force behind global labor. Therefore, I focus on the transnational activities of national unions. I identify three conditions that result in incentives for unions to choose strategies of labor transnationalism: the shrinking of national political opportunity structures, the increasing availability of international political opportunity structures, and the adoption of a social union or social movement unionism paradigm for union revitalization. Additionally, I identify three factors that inhibit labor transnationalism among national unions: diminishing resources, turf wars, and cultural barriers. I introduce the concept of complex labor transnationalism as an alternative approach to the more limited traditional practice of labor transnationalism. I disaggregate the activities associated with complex labor transnationalism into six types: communicative transnationalism, political transnationalism, steward transnationalism, protest transnationalism, collaborative transnationalism, and steward transnationalism. Furthermore, I conduct a case study on the state of labor transnationalism in the United States concluding that while most unions take a traditional approach towards labor transnationalism there is some evidence of complex labor transnationalism. Finally, I draw several conclusions about the role of global labor in international relations and outline three areas of potential growth.
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Uzochukwu, Peter. "Local and Global Exigencies within the Ecumenical Movement: Analysis of the Ecumenical Scene in South African Catholicism." Bulletin of Ecumenical Theology, 2008. http://digital.library.duq.edu/u?/bet,3224.
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Martin, Joshua David. "Evangelizing Environmentalism: A Vision for a Broader “Creation Care” Movement." University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1254800541.
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Radford, Brendon. "Processes and Outcomes Associated with the Uptake of Organic Agriculture in th Global South." Thesis, Griffith University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367572.
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This thesis examines the processes and outcomes associated with the uptake of organic agriculture in the Global South. The thesis draws on insights and concepts from three distinct theoretical approaches – Actor-Network Theory (ANT), Resource mobilisation Theory (RMT) and framing analysis – to examine why organic agriculture has come to be taken up within the Global South, how organic agriculture has become taken up within the Global South and what implications are associated with the uptake in the Global South in terms of the future development of the organic agriculture phenomenon. The thesis argues that there is an array of interests and values held by adherents within the organic movement and that attempts to promote the uptake of organic agriculture in the Global South have served only to increase this diversity.
The thesis argues firstly that the movement mobilisation has been grounded in market exchange relations, which has formed the basis for the uptake of organic agriculture in the Global South. Because they are mediated by non-human actors, market exchange relations provide a means to deliver incentives, which resonate with an array of interests and values held by a larger number of potential adherents.
The thesis argues secondly that the uptake of organic agriculture in the Global South has been facilitated by the actions taken by Social Movement Organizations (SMOs) to frame organic agriculture in ways that resonate with the interests and values of new adherents, who believe in the goals and objectives of the movement, and constituents, who can provide financial resources to fund activities to promote the uptake of organic agriculture in the Global South. By framing organic agriculture as providing social and economic benefits to farmers in the Global South, SMOs have mobilised support from the international development cooperation sector.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Biomedical and Physical Sciences
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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Luna, Alfredo. "Implications of social movements in the present global environmental dynamics: the case of the United States." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Centro de Investigación en Geografía Aplicada, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/119683.
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Social movements are mobilization groups of stakeholders who seek to change the status quo, given the unfavorable conditions regarding their demands, rights, warrants, etc. As a fundamental effect of the change, social movements become leading actors of institutional change. One of these effects is given in the environmental issues, in the use, control, legislation and appreciation of nature. The insurgent policies developed by these movements are, in the current context of globalization and development of information technology and communication, the center of analysis in this paper, focusing on the U.S. environmental movement. We, therefore, believe that insurgent policies determine the beginning of institutional change.Los movimientos sociales son grupos movilizados de actores sociales que buscan cambiar el status quo dadas las condiciones no favorables en relación con sus demandas, derechos, garantías,etc. Como efecto fundamental de dicho cambio, los movimientos sociales se constituyen como actores protagónicos del cambio institucional. Uno de estos efectos se da en el tema ambiental, en el uso, control, legislación y valoración de la naturaleza. Las políticas insurgentes que desarrollan dichos movimientos serán, en el actual contexto de la globalización y desarrollo de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación, el centro de análisis de este documento, enfocándose en el movimiento ecologista de Estados Unidos. Por tanto, creemos que las políticas insurgentes determinan el inicio del cambio institucional.
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Tucker, Joan A. "Local strategies in a global network : disability rights in Jamaica." [Tampa, Fla.] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002117.
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Videnova, Mila, and Jana Videnova. "The Spread of the Global Financial Crisis to Sweden : Investigating the co-movement between two international stock indices." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Economics, Finance and Statistics, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-21430.
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Rothenstein, Rike. "Out of Sync: Is There a Mismatch Between the American Environmental Movement and Public Opinion?" University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1439308068.
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Erwin, Anna Elizabeth. "Participation in a shifting global context? A case study of labor and faith in the American South." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/85834.
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Farmworker ministries provide essential goods and services as well as spiritual support to migrant farmworkers living abroad. While faith-based organizations and/or ministries are key to supporting migrant and/or refugee populations in the U.S., scholars have conducted little research on these institutions, especially those that seek to encourage the agency of those they serve. To address this gap, this study investigated a political capacity-building project conducted by the Valley View Farmworker Ministry in the summers of 2015 and 2016. That initiative sought to increase engagement and leadership of the workers that Valley View serves, to increase the Board of Directors (BOD) understanding of the farmworkers' lives, and to enhance farmworker influence on that Board's activities and decisions. The author undertook five months of fieldwork with Valley View in 2016 that included review of key documents, and completion of twenty-three interviews with a sample of farmworkers, Board of Directors, and employees. The study utilized an intersectional, participatory (Fraser, 2009) theoretical framework to analyze the justice implications of the Ministry's efforts to address the political, cultural, and economic disparities among the project's participants. The results contribute to studies on community-based research with migrant farmworkers, theoretical discussions of participatory development, and analyses of the enduring power of the agrarian imaginary, the image of the small-scale, white, male grower, to thwart such initiatives. It also builds on arguments regarding how to increase participation of farmworkers in the alternative agri-food and sustainable agriculture movements. This analysis concludes by exploring the social tensions often associated with participatory development and offering recommendations for increasing worker engagement and leadership in farmworker ministries and for confronting the agrarian imaginary.Ph. D.
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Yong, Caleb Hoe-Kit. "Justice, legitimacy, and movement across borders : a political theory of international migration." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:7f94a135-778d-45cd-acdf-e5e15adba7f1.
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Existing moral reflection on immigration law and policy is caught in an impasse between (1) proponents of an individual right to free international migration and (2) proponents of a state’s right to control its borders. In Chapter 1, I examine arguments supporting an individual right to free international migration. I show that the case for this putative right cannot be settled solely by considering the strength of individuals’ interest in being able to cross international borders according to their choice. Rather, at a crucial point, the argument for an individual right to free migration turns on the truth of a particular conception of global justice. In Chapter 2, I examine arguments supporting a state’s right to control its borders. I contend that these arguments do not seek to defend the substantive justice of restrictive immigration policies, but rather the legitimacy of processes of political decision-making by which states unilaterally determine their own immigration policies. Abandoning this right-versus-right paradigm, I recast the debate by focusing on two distinct questions: (1) the question of justice in immigration, which substantively evaluates immigrant admission policy; and (2) the question of the legitimacy of immigration law enacted by procedures responsive only to states’ internal political decisions. I further propose that in articulating principles of justice in immigration, we should first develop a conception of global justice which will provide the background for our evaluation of immigration policy. In Chapter 3, I develop and defend a conception of global justice I call cooperation-based internationalism. I argue that co-citizens are joint participants in a scheme of cooperation which provides them with the social goods they need to lead autonomous lives. They therefore owe each other special duties of social justice. In addition, I argue for a duty of assistance which applies among all human persons globally. This duty requires developed states to assist developing states in establishing minimally just institutions. In Chapter 4, I develop a conception of justice in immigration against the background of cooperation-based internationalism. I argue that there is no requirement for states to allow open immigration. Nevertheless, I argue that co-citizens owe each other duties which impose significant moral constraints on immigration policy: states must (1) allow for family unification; (2) eschew policies that select immigrants based on criteria that unjustly call into question the fitness for citizenship of certain current members; (3) regulate labour immigration so that all current citizens benefit equally unless unequal gains benefit worse-off citizens. The duty of assistance is also imposes constraints on immigration policy. Developed states should (4) avoid immigration policies which cause brain drain harmful to international development and (5) admit and resettle refugees. In Chapter 5, I turn to the distinct question of the legitimacy of unilaterally-enacted immigration law. I argue that the application and enforcement of immigration law counts as a coercive exercise of political power which stands in need of justification. I examine the consent and natural duty of justice theories of political legitimacy, concluding that these influential theories cannot establish the legitimacy of immigration law. I conclude by considering the implications of the illegitimacy of immigration law for the evaluation of irregular migration.
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De, Oliveira Khris Mattar. "An investigaiton into the Nature of the Global Justice Movement : The Rise of a New Political Mobilisation of Resistance?" Thesis, University of Bath, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.518097.
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Niame. "Restructuring consciousness : how a representative organization of the Human Potential Movement bridges personal identity and community with the demands of a world gone global /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3147830.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2004.Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 268-279). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
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D'ORSI, LORENZO. "Forme del ricordo e pratiche di futuro. Continuità e fratture generazionali tra memorie dei movimenti rivoluzionari e nuove proteste globali a Istanbul." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/130199.
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Starting from the analysis of the so-called of Gezi Park movement that in June 2013 has reshaped the youth-scape in Istanbul, the thesis reconstructs the public and the private forms of memory transmission of the 1980 - 1983 military coup in former revolutionary fighters families. The military coup can be considered as a historical watershed that radically changed the cultural, economic and generational features of the country. The coup provoked a radical de-politicization of age cohorts, grown after this date that have been represented in public space as apathetic, apolitical and consumerist by previous generations. The text is based on a two years fieldwork research and focuses on the plurality of shapes and uses of memory, the weight political experience of the seventies and the painful memory of the coup have in the relationship between generations, and the continuity and the discontinuity that young generations establish with memory frameworks conveyed by previous ones. These frames are characterized by the moral economy of the fighter and by the martyr code and can be seen as agonistic memory in a memory field that is characterized by huge hierarchies of power, where official history still represents the militants as internal enemies or terrorists. The protests of 2013 appear as a biographical and political breaking point that redefined the political space through new public languages. By involving a heterogeneous group of people as leftist militants, anti-capitalist Muslims, nationalists, ethnic and religious minorities, LGBTT organizations and the so-called apolitical youth it can be also understood as a cultural creativity area that reshaped the processes of construction and dismantling of social and symbolic boundaries among groups. Objects of analysis are also the construction of generational bounds in the young protagonists of the movement protest and in the so-called seventy-eight generation. Finally, I worked on the processes of memorialization of Gezi Park movement.
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Rapley, Ian. "Green Star Japan : language and internationalism in the Japanese Esperanto movement, 1905-1944." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fc299226-d3d5-4d01-8830-c3fe5df4f334.
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The planned language Esperanto achieved popularity in early twentieth century Japan, inspiring a national movement which was the largest outside Europe. Esperanto was designed to facilitate greater international and inter-cultural communication and understanding; the history of the language in Japan reveals a rich tradition of internationalism in Japan, stretching from the beginnings of the movement, in the wake of the Russo-Japanese war, through the end of the Pacific war, when, for a brief period, organised Esperanto in Japan ceased. Building upon existing studies of internationalism amongst elite opinion makers in Japan, this history of Esperanto reveals unexpected examples of internationalism amongst the broader Japanese public, a number of competing conceptions of the international world, and their realisation through a range of transnational activities. Esperanto was at once an intellectual phenomenon, and a language which could be put into immediate and concrete practice. The diversity of social groups and intellectual positions within the Japanese Esperanto community reveals internationalism and cosmopolitanism, not as well defined, static concepts, but as broad spaces in which different ideas of the world and the community of mankind could be debated. What linked the various different groups and individuals drawn into the Japanese Esperanto movement was a shared desire to make contact with, and help to reform, the world beyond Japan's borders, as well as a shared realisation of the vital role of language in making this contact possible. From radical socialists to conservative academics, and from Japanese diplomats at the League of Nations to members of rural communities in the deep north of Japan, although their politics often differed, Japanese Esperantists came together to participate in the re-imagining of the modern world; in doing so they became part of a transnational community, one which reveals insights into both modern Japanese history, and the nature of internationalism.