Dissertations / Theses: 'Social movement'

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J, Haddadian Afsaneh. "Social Movements' Emergence and Form: The Green Movement in Iran." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1334502194.

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Mello, Brian Jason. "Evaluating social movement impacts : labor and the politics of state-society relations /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10711.

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Einwohner, Rachel L. "The efficacy of protest : meaning and social movement outcomes /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8922.

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Bobbitt, Rachel. "Applying Movement Success Models to Marian Apparition Movements." VCU Scholars Compass, 2008. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1556.

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This research seeks to explore Marian apparition movements as applied to movement success models. Among the numerous reports of the Virgin Mary appearing to the faithful, a select number of these experiences have developed into social movements. These movements take on similar patterns in their development and are contingent upon group involvement and support. This analysis researches how certain cases of Marian apparitions transition from lone psychic experience into a social movement and seeks to expand upon existing movement success models.

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Knight, William. "Anonymous : a social movement." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46804/.

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This project seeks to show that the controversial hacktivist phenomenon Anonymous might be most appropriately understood through the lens of Social Movement Theory. Based upon data gathered from four years of observation and interviews among self-identifying members of the Anonymous movement, this project is an exploration of the state of the Anonymous movement as it exists in its current form, and also a look back a the movement since its political birth in 2008. This project ultimately concludes that there are elements of social movement theories which do indeed apply to Anonymous, but there are areas in which theory might be updated to best understand such a tumultuous and dynamic movement.

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Avedissian, Karena. "A tale of two movements : social movement mobilisation in Southern Russia." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5966/.

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The thesis employs the political process approach within social movement theory (SMT) to examine in a comparative fashion two distinctly different opposition movements in southern Russia. One is the environmental movement in Krasnodar Krai and the other is the ethno-national Balkar movement in Kabardino-Balkaria. The political process approach focuses on the role and interaction of political opportunities, mobilising structures, and social movement framing for both movements, and seeks to explore their role in social movement mobilisation dynamics in Russia’s non-democratic context. The combination of the analysis of the three variables of political opportunities, mobilising structures, and social movement framing allows for fresh perspectives on both SMT and post-Soviet area studies. The thesis is particularly concerned with networks. It argues that in non-democratic contexts, the role of networks is more important than in democratic contexts.

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Montes, Rosa Isabel. "New social movements and social theory : the anti-nuclear power movement : a Mexican case study." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272750.

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Lam, Hoi-yan Hester, and 林愷欣. "Student movement and social reform." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B29532887.

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Llewellyn, C. B. "Social movement and double movement : the examples of community business." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363533.

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Hofstedt, Brandon. "Arenas of social movement outcomes accounting for political, cultural, and social outcomes of three land-use social movements /." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2009.

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Zhghenti, N. "Social Movement Participation and Social Protest in Georgia." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/259780.

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There is a long-lasting debate on reasons and causes of social movement participation. Scholars suggest different explanations from the perspective of one or another theory. However, the theoretical and empirical fact is that there is a dearth of sociological literature on systematic, integrated approach covering multiple factors from different levels of movement participation. To address this problem and contribute to the comprehensive multifactored Model, the objective of this paper is to develop a Model of movement participation, which is based on theoretical and empirical analysis. In the framework of this paper a Model of movement participation is developed which further is tested in Georgian social protests in a particular period. In this way the generated and further developed Model is not only analyzed in context of the corresponding literature but also examined in a practical setting. Due to novelty of the study, qualitative approach has been applied. Overall, research proved theoretical and empirical application of the Model(s). The study is an important contribution to the sociological literature on social movements.

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Wachsmann, Emily Brook. "Social Movements, Subjectivity, and Solidarity: Witnessing Rhetoric of the International Solidarity Movement." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12211/.

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This study engaged in pushing the current political limitations created by the political impasse of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, by imagining new possibilities for radical political change, agency, and subjectivity for both the international activists volunteering with the International Solidarity Movement as well as Palestinians enduring the brutality of life under occupation. The role of the witness and testimony is brought to bear on activism and rhetoric the social movement ISM in Palestine. Approaches the past studies of the rhetoric of social movements arguing that rhetorical studies often disassociated 'social' from social movements, rendering invisible questions of the social and subjectivity from their frames for evaluation. Using the testimonies of these witnesses, Palestinians and activists, as the rhetorical production of the social movement, this study provides an effort to put the social body back into rhetorical studies of social movements. The relationships of subjectivity and desubjectification, as well as, possession of subjects by agency and the role of the witness with each of these is discussed in terms of Palestinian and activist potential for subjectification and desubjectifiation.

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Wachsmann, Emily Brook Lain Brian. "Social movements, subjectivity, and solidarity witnessing rhetoric of the international solidarity movement /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12211.

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Cuninghame, Patrick Gun. "Autonomia : a movement of refusal : social movements and social conflict in Italy in the 1970's." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2002. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/6688/.

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This thesis examines the continuing significance in contemporary Italy of the Italian new social movement of 1973-83, Autonomia, by positing it as a movement of refusal: of capitalist work, of the party form, of the clandestine form of political violence, and of the politics of 'taking power'. It was in discontinuity with the value systems of the reformist Old Left and the revolutionary New Left, but in continuity with contemporary Italian antagonist and global anti-capitalist movements. In defining the research subject, the concept of individual and collective autonomy emerges as a central characteristic of the Italian new social movements. Autonomy is understood not only as independence from the capitalist State and economy and their institutions of mediation, but also as the self-determination of everyday life, related to the needs, desires and subjectivity of what Italian 'workerism' defined as the Fordist 'mass worker' and the post-Fordist 'socialised worker'. Using the 'class composition' theoretical perspective of Autonomist Marxism to critique classical Marxism, neo-Marxism and new social movement theory's minimalisation of the political content of new social movements and dismissive analysis of Autonomia, the scope of research was limited to the interpretation of 48 interviews of former participants and observers, of primary texts produced by Autonomia and of secondary accounts based on 'collective historical memory'. The thematic framework consists of chapters on workers' autonomy and the refusal of work; forms of political organisation and violence involving 'organised', 'diffused' and 'armed' Autonomia; and on the youth counter-cultures and antagonist communication of 'creative Autonomia' and the 1977 Movement. The thesis concludes that Autonomia expressed the violent social conflicts produced by the rapid transformation of an industrial into a post-industrial society, but ultimately was only a partial break from the traditions and practices of the Old and New Lefts, leaving an ambiguous legacy for contemporary Italian autonomous social movements.

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Christopher, Michael Edward. "Thinking green and the prescriptive reaction to modernity : a theory of social change and objectivity /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9808980.

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Annetts, J. "Gays, AIDS and social movement theory." Thesis, University of Reading, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.428180.

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McGehee, Nancy G. "Alternative Tourism: A Social Movement Perspective." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28122.

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This study develops and tests a theoretical model drawing on social psychological and resource-mobilization perspectives of social movement theory to explain changes in social movement participation and support for activism among Earthwatch Expedition volunteers. The social psychological perspective of social movements recognizes the role of self-efficacy and consciousness-raising for the participation in and success of social movement organizations. The resource mobilization perspective of social movements stresses rationality and the importance of funding and networks for the success of social movement organizations. Utilizing these two theoretical perspectives as my foundation, I hypothesize that participation in an Earthwatch Expedition increases volunteers' participation in social movement organizations in ways such as making monetary donations, voting with the organization's platform in mind, or attending rallies and marches. I also hypothesize that volunteers will increase their support for others who participate in these same types of activities. Earthwatch Expeditions are a form of alternative tourism in which volunteers participate in any of 126 different types of 10-14 day research-oriented expeditions that may include evaluating the health of a coral reef, studying maternal health among west African women, assessing the killer whale population off the coast of Puget Sound, or recording oral history in Dominica. I conducted pre- and post-trip surveys in June and July of 1998, resulting in 363 completed surveys. I analyzed data using multiple regression to discover relationships between pre-trip and post-trip measures of social movement participation, activism support, networks, self-efficacy, and consciousness-raising. In other words, I explored ways in which an alternative tourism experience like Earthwatch can change a person's ideas about their own social movement participation, the social movement activities of others, their perceived ability to overcome obstacles in order to implement social change, and their awareness of social issues. Results suggest that participation in an Earthwatch Expedition has a positive effect on volunteers' social movement participation, their awareness of social issues, their networks, and their ability to overcome obstacles, but little effect on activism support.
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Söderlund, Jana Christina. "Biophilic Design: A Social Movement Journey." Thesis, Curtin University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2015.

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Biophilic design is a new social movement about the expression of the innate human nature connection in the built environment which brings social, environmental and economic benefits. Following the four phases of heuristic inquiry this research investigated the social movement of biophilic design to illuminate and explicate the motivators, drivers and components of the movement in the emergent, coalescent and mainstreaming stages. These contribute towards developing a framework for mainstreaming biophilic design.

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Famiglietti, Antonio. "The theory of social movements and the British Labour Movement, circa 1790-1920." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369424.

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Wooten, Martin Edward. "The Boston movement as as "revitalization movement"." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Hanna, Esmée Sinéad. "Student power : a social movements analysis of the English student movement from 1965-1973." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.589034.

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This thesis investigates the English student movement between the years of 1965 and 1973, offering the first sustained exploration of this 'case study' of a particular type of social movement, i.e. movements of students. The research looks at this movement in relation to social movement theories, as a sociological explanation for this historical movement is sought. New , social movement theory has long been viewed and accepted by some scholars as the explanatory theory for movements such as student movements that were emerging since the 1960s. However, in this thesis I challenge this assumed dominance of New Social Movement theory in relation to the English student movement, arguing that complex social movements may require more holistic explanations in order to fully understand the features and attributes that comprise these movements. The English student movement was a complex and varied movement, with its specificities often relating to location, thus any explanation of the movement needs to be able to grant flexibility to the variances as well as the commonalities present. Sociological attention has been limited in relation to the English student movement, even though the English student movement was significant within the history of our universities as well as broader English radical traditions and left wing actions. This thesis thus attempts to right that lack of attention in some small way, making use of previously unused documentary sources and documenting the voices of those involved within the English student movement before the details of the events are consigned even further to the realms of history. The thesis looks at two stories of the movement, stressing "the importance of full understanding and theorising accordingly. The use of a theoretical synthesis, fundamentally drawing upon the work of Canel (1992), is employed in order to understand the empricial exploration of this movement. This thesis offers an orginal contribution to the understanding of the English student movement, via grounding in empirical data and sustained sociological explanation.

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Brandenbarg, Gregory William Anthony. "Emancipatory adult education and social movement theory." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq22703.pdf.

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Werner, Margaret MacGregor. "INTERVENTION: (RE)ARTICULATING LGBT SOCIAL-MOVEMENT IDENTITIES." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/145279.

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In this dissertation I use rhetorical analysis and draw on articulation theory, primarily as it is conceived by Stuart Hall, to analyze the ways that LGBT social movements constitute and strategically deploy macro-level identities. This research focuses on the ways that movement identities--from the gay liberation of Stonewall through the current movements for marriage and military service--are rhetorically constructed. By tracking national LGBT social-movement organizations through such dynamic changes, my analyses reveal the ways that rearticulating the identity of a social movement can help groups change strategies and identifications when activist practices are failing. This scholarship adds to existing research on the ways that social movements constitute and reconstitute their shared sense of identity in the midst of evolving social contexts and also suggests some ways that multimodal rhetorics shape the development of movements.

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Cadji, Anne-Laure. "The landless rural workers' movement in contemporary Brazil : social movement or political organisation?" Thesis, University of Oxford, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.404073.

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Cetin, Muhammed. "Collective identity and action of the Gulen movement : implications for social movement theory." Thesis, University of Derby, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10545/254792.

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This study focuses on the collective identity, action and outcomes of the GÃ¼len Movement within the framework of sociology of social movements. It differs from recent studies in that, rather than using the categorizations from one theory, it tests against the GÃ¼len Movement all the categorizations of the major contemporary theories, namely, 'political opportunity', 'resource mobilization' and 'framing' structures. It reviews the sociological study of social movements in relation to the practice of the GÃ¼len Movement of Turkey and asks what kind of movement it is and what are its academic and social implications.

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Saunders, Clare. "Collaboration, competition and conflict : social movement and interaction dynamics of London's environmental movement." Thesis, University of Kent, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.412465.

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Huang, Guozheng. "Social movement and democratisation in Taiwan : the case of the 1990 student movement." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.416303.

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Garrido, Maria I. "The importance of social movements' networks in development communication : lessons from the Zapatista Movement in Chiapas, Mexico /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6150.

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Johnston, Heather Elizabeth. "Social movement identity, an application of theory to the cooperative housing movement in Toronto." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0017/MQ46756.pdf.

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Ramlachan, Molly. "Social movement learning: collective, participatory learning within the Jyoti Jivanam Movement of South Africa." University of the Western Cape, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4301.

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The purpose of this research paper is to explore and examine the nature of learning within the context of and situated within a social movement. Based on an exploratory qualitative study of learning within the Jyoti Jivanam Movement of South Africa, this research explores the nature and purpose/s of learning within a social movement. Accordingly, this study is guided by the research questions: How and why do adults learn as they collectively participate in social movements; and what factors facilitate, contribute, hinder and influence learning within social movement? This study confirms that social movements are important sites for collective learning and knowledge construction. For this reason, social movements need to be acknowledged as pedagogical sites that afford adults worthwhile learning opportunities. Furthermore, social movements, as pedagogical sites, not only contribute to conceptions of what constitute legitimate knowledge(s), social movements also contribute to the creation of transformative knowledge(s).
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Rhamachan, Molly. "Social movement learning: Collective,participatory learning within the jyoti jivanam movement of south Africa." University of the Western Cape, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/4401.

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Magister Educationis (Adult Learning and Global Change) - MEd(AL)
The purpose of this research paper is to explore and examine the nature of learning within the context of and situated within a social movement. Based on an exploratory qualitative study of learning within the Jyoti Jivanam Movement of South Africa, this research explores the nature and purpose/s of learning within a social movement. Accordingly, this study is guided by the research questions: How and why do adults learn as they collectively participate in social movements; and what factors facilitate, contribute, hinder and influence learning within social movement? This study confirms that social movements are important sites for. Collective learning and knowledge construction. For this reason, social movements need to be acknowledged as pedagogical sites that afford adults worthwhile learning opportunities. Furthermore, social movements, as pedagogical sites, not only contribute to conceptions of what constitute legitimate knowledge(s), social movements also contribute to the creation of transformative knowledge(s).

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Johnston, Heather. "Social movement identity : an application of theory to the cooperative housing movement in Toronto." Mémoire, Sherbrooke : Université de Sherbrooke, 1999. http://savoirs.usherbrooke.ca/handle/11143/1979.

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Sharma, Shalini. "New social movements and media : the case of the Justice for Bhopal Movement in India." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2013. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/18259/.

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Allen, Ardith Matilda. "The deradicalization of Columbus, Ohio's antirape movement, 1972-2002." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1211996569.

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Long, Joseph E. "A social movement theory typology of gang violence." Thesis, Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School, 2010. http://edocs.nps.edu/npspubs/scholarly/theses/2010/Jun/10Jun%5FLong.pdf.

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Thesis (M.S. in Defense Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2010.
Thesis Advisor(s): Lee, Doowan ; Second Reader: Giordano, Frank. "June 2010." Description based on title screen as viewed on July 15, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Social Movement Theory, Repression, Coercion, Negative Channeling, Gang Violence, Outreach Programs. Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-61). Also available in print.

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Wettergren, Åsa. "Moving and jamming : implications for social movement theory /." Karlstad : Department of Sociology, Division for Social Sciences, Karlstad University, 2005.

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Wettergren, Åsa. "Moving and Jamming : Implications for Social Movement Theory." Doctoral thesis, Karlstad University, Division for Social Sciences, 2005. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-1417.

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The present compiled dissertation explores culture jamming as a social movement in late capitalist information society. Culture jamming embraces groups and individuals practicing symbolic protest against the expansion and domination of large corporations and the logic of the market into public and private life. The central aim is to understand the meaning of culture jamming; its “model” of collective identification, and its protest and mobilizing strategies. International social movement research mostly focuses upon well established movements that are traditionally organized and directed against conventional political institutions. Studying culture jamming as a social movement therefore entails implications for social movement theory and research. For instance, concepts must be adjusted to cover emerging “individualized” forms of collective action and the effects of cyberspace on collective identification. Furthermore, attention is directed to emotions in culture jamming. It is thereby also argued that social movement research generally may have a lot to gain from incorporating emotion theory.

Data consists of texts and visuals from the organization Adbusters Media Foundation, and seven interviews with culture jammers. The groups represented in the interviews are Institute for Applied Autonomy, Reverend Billy’s Church of Stop Shopping, New York Surveillance Camera Players, Bureau of Inverse Technology, Rtmark, and the French Casseurs de Pub. The method of analysis is “abductive” qualitative text analysis inspired by hermeneutic qualitative analysis and the epistemological and ontological foundations of discourse theory and post-structuralism.

Analysis is carried out in five separate studies presented in text I-IV (previously published) and in chapter eight. Text I maps the Adbusters Media Foundation (AMF) along the lines of narrative, organization, ends, means, and strategy. Text II offers an analysis of the various nodal points in the AMF discourse and discusses the tensions inherent to the AMF effort to “hegemonize” the meaning of culture jamming. Text III offers an analysis of culture jamming as political activism from the thematic perspective of culture, place and identity, based on four of the interviews. In text IV the AMF visuals are analyzed from the perspective of emotions and social movement mobilization. Chapter eight brings together the seven interviews and the AMF material into an analysis of emotions in culture jamming.

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Bautista, Emily Estioco. "Transformative Youth Organizing| A Decolonizing Social Movement Framework." Thesis, Loyola Marymount University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10788827.

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The compounding experiences of colonial miseducation of youth of color, neoliberal policies and logics in urban communities, colonial logics that render the role of spirituality in social movements as invisible, and adultism in legal and social institutions constrain the transformative possibilities of youth agency in social movements. This study explored (a) how educators working in youth movements can build a decolonizing paradigm and practice for transformative organizing and (b) new paradigmatic interventions and theoretical directions that can help inform a transformative youth organizing approach. The research was conducted through a decolonizing interpretive research methodology (Darder, 2015a) and utilized the interrelated lenses of critical pedagogy and decolonizing pedagogy, in order to gain a historicity of scholarly discussions about the logics of coloniality, social movement theories, and youth-organizing frameworks across various texts. By utilizing the decolonizing interpretive methodology and decolonizing and critical pedagogy theoretical frameworks, this study found that a decolonizing social movement framework for transformative youth organizing calls for (a) creating counterhegemonic havens that create solidarity spaces between youth and adults; (b) building authentic revolution through communion between youth and adults, community-building, and communion with indigenous peoples and the Earth; (c) cultivating a sense of love that sustains community bonds to facilitate healing; (d) promoting healing through engaging in dialectics and dialogue; and (e) creating opportunities for agency and creation to implement the praxis of transformative youth organizing. The findings support the need for adults seeking to authentically be in solidarity with youth to engage in transformative justice practices that help communities collectively heal from colonial violence and engage in a counterhegemonic praxis of creating new transformative and liberatory possibilities in communities.

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Kowalchuk, Lisa. "The social basis of the Quebec independence movement /." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61321.

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This thesis assesses several theories about the social basis of the Quebec independence movement. The most prevalent of these theories locates the core of support for Quebec independence in the Francophone new middle class. The Marxist perspective offers a closely related hypothesis, according to which the independence movement is based in the Francophone new petite bourgeoisie. A third theory sees the new class as at the helm of the new social movements, among which is the Quebec independence movement. Finally, a fourth hypothesis is that the Francophone intellectuals and professional intelligentsia are the foremost separatists.
The results of tabular and logistic regression analysis of data on referendum support for sovereignty-association refute the new middle class and new petite bourgeoisie hypotheses. The analyses indicate considerable support for sovereignty-association among a narrow variant of the new class. Within this narrow new class, or professional intelligentsia, support for sovereignty is most heavily concentrated among the Francophone intellectuals. The most discriminating predictor of separatism is not class, but the opposition between those in intellectuals vs. the business/managerial occupations. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

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Nielsen, Kirstin. "Creationism as a social movement : the textbook controversy." Virtual Press, 1988. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/544150.

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The purpose of this thesis was to analyze the rhetoric of the Creationist-evolutionist textbook controversy. In Chapter II, Leland Griffin's approach to the study of historical movements was used concomitantly with Thomas Kuhn's ideas concerning scientific revolution to explore the first research question: What changes have occurred in the persuasive success rate of the Creationists' textbook battle as it has moved from its stance of "the good versus the evil" toward the stance of the scientist, (including scientific methods of reasoning and observation)?Chapter III explored the second research question: Do the new persuasive tactics, the use of scientific vocabulary, grammar, and forms of argument, provide more effective persuasive persuasive methods than did the earlier approaches. This chapter examined the evolutionary content of secondary school biology textbooks, and in particular, estimated the impact of change in Creationist persuasive tactics used since 1968 upon the content and marketing of secondary biology textbooks. The textbook studies supported the contention that the bifurcated movement has been highly successful. Evolutionary coverage has decreased in biology textbooks since 1968 while biblical creation has seen a definite increase.Currently, however, the two Creationist fronts face a new challenge as their polar views have been observed together in recent legal battles. This polarity in approach has already proven detrimental to the Creationists in recent trials. Chapter IV discussed the implications of this bifurcation of the Creationist Movement. Further, the implications of the current rhetorical crisis were examined. It was recommended that research be continued examining the rhetorical strategies used by the Creationists since 1963. Also, further research in the area of textbook analysis was deemed necessary.
Department of Speech Communication

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North, Peter. "Local exchange trading systems : a social movement approach." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361077.

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Morales, Alexis Omar Cortés. "Favelados e pobladores nas ciências sociais: a construção teórica de um movimento social." Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, 2014. http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=7970.

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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Como as ciências sociais contribuíram para produzir teoricamente o movimento de pobladores chileno e de favelados no Brasil durante o século XX? Mediante a revisão crítica das principais teorias e perspectivas que tentaram compreender a ação política dos pobres urbanos de Santiago do Chile e do Rio de Janeiro, se espera mostrar a relação de proximidade entre estes movimentos e a produção das ciências sociais, onde operaria uma dupla hermenêutica, ou seja, um processo de reflexividade mutuamente influente que terminaria por incidir na constituição e reconhecimento dos movimentos enquanto tais. Esta tese tem o intuito de analisar como as ciências sociais performam as lutas sociais que buscam descrever, em outras palavras, como determinadas conjunturas acadêmicas interatuam positiva ou negativamente com as disputas políticas e sociais produzidas a partir dos movimentos em questão. Para tanto, se revisaram as principais perspectivas que estudaram a questão social urbana: a teoria da marginalidade, a urbanização dependente, a teoria dos movimentos sociais urbanos, as leituras utilitárias e a teoria dos novos movimentos sociais; mostrando como estas interpretações flutuaram entre o réquiem, o redescobrimento e a negação de favelados e pobladores como movimentos sociais.
This thesis will make a critical reading of the most important theories of the urban poor action in Santiago of Chile and Rio de Janeiro during the XX century. I intend to answer the question: how the social sciences contribute for the favelados and pobladores Movements construction? First, I will analyse the Marginality Theory, that I understand as the first to consider (negatively) the political potential of the marginalized. Then, I will show how Santiago and Rio de Janeiro provide a series of urban popular experiences that elicited two opposing schools of thought: the urban social movements and the utilitarian perspective of participation. Finally, I will stress how the social sciences in these countries assimilated the reaction of these sectors to each countrys military dictatorship, showing how these interpretations oscillates between the requiem, the rediscovery and the denial of these movements. Urban popular struggle must be rethought in order to move beyond this theoretical ambivalence.

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Huang, Bi Yun. "Analyzing a social movement's use of Internet resource mobilization, new social movement theories and the case of Falun Gong /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3386686.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, School of Library and Information Science, 2009.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 15, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4498. Adviser: Howard S. Rosenbaum.

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Clark, Eric. "Social Movement & Social Media : A qualitative study of Occupy Wall Street." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-16787.

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This project is important to the research in both the fields of social movement and of social media and their growing relationship. This report has analyzed the responses of several key role players in one of the biggest social movements in American history, Occupy Wall Street. Social media was used as a tool for both communication and information gathering amongst all those who were involved in the movement in a variety of capacities. The relationship and change that is occurring between traditional media and social media as information sources is also examined. Through qualitative analysis the importance that the role that social media now commands in our society in the context of social movements specifically became clear. The results will show the significance of this work and its importance in understanding the role that social media will continue to play in future social movements in the digitized public sphere of the 21st century.
Article manuscript 7,5 hp par of degree: ‘Social media is our media’: two individual activists’ perspectives oftheir relationship with the uses of traditional and social media duringOccupy Wall Street

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Murray, Elizabeth A. "Fertile Ground for a Social Movement: Social Capital in Direct Agriculture Marketing." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4734.

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Building from existing literature on anthropology of food, political economy of food and consumption, and social movement theory, I examine the direct agriculture network of Tampa Bay Florida through a mixed-method ethnography. The research consisted of one year of field-work, with 6 months and over 100 hours of active participant observation, open-ended interviews with eight local producers, and short surveys with 100 market patrons. This thesis is an analysis of the results of this rigorous qualitative and quantitative work and, perhaps more importantly, an account of my own personal struggles in joining the direct agriculture network and my ultimate commitment to the movement. This report documents one student's transition from a researcher to an activist, finally settling in a local place that occupies both worlds in an effort to help increase the accessibility of others who wish to join the movement; an equal access based not only on economic capital, but also social and cultural capital in order to sustain an alternative food social movement.

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Giri, Mukunds. "Communist movement in Nepal: ideology, strategy and social basis of communist movement under parliamentary system." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2558.

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Sjöberg, Jessica, and Paula Andreasson. "Music, rhythm and movement." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-33247.

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Hicks, Isaiah Deonte. ""We Don't Want Another Black Freedom Movement!" : An Inquiry into the desire for new social movements by comparing how people perceived both the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Power Movement versus the Black Lives Matter Movement." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1587123845884206.

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Palacios, Carolina. "Social movements as learning communities : Chilean exiles and knowledge production in and beyond the solidarity movement." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/37956.

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The atrocities committed by the military in Chile after the armed forces seized power in 1973 horrified Chileans and people around the world who had been following events in Chile for years prior to the coup. Together with the resistance in Chile, the transnational solidarity movement integrated by Chilean exiles and non-Chileans across the globe played a major role in ending the dictatorship. Since in-depth empirical studies of social movement learning are sparse this study addresses this gap as well as the ones in the existent research on the Chilean solidarity movement in Canada and elsewhere, the political activities of Chilean exiles in Canada and the Chilean solidarity movement specifically from a learning perspective. The purposes of this research, therefore, were to document and understand collective learning processes among solidarity movement participants and to contribute to the empirical and theoretical social movement learning scholarship. This study employed qualitative historical research methods, including oral history interviews and reviewing formal and informal archives. The conceptual tools used to understand solidarity movement learning and knowledge production drew broadly on new social movement thought and in particular on Freire, Gramsci and Habermas, which enabled an analysis of wider social forces, the specific pedagogies of the solidarity movement and the connections between the two. The findings speak to the value of a varied repertoire of action which merges the political with the cultural and which blends the intellectual with the emotional and the sensory. They also point to the power of artistic forms of expression for articulating and communicating social movement messages and for expressing identities. In addition, the findings show the local, experiential knowledge generated in social movements is vital to achieving movement aims, to critical learning and transformation, and to constructing individual and collective social movement identities. The study concludes that understanding social movements as learning communities is essential because it foregrounds the value and legitimacy of movement knowledge and the centrality of learning and knowledge production to movement aims and to the significance of movements for movement members, their allies and the public.

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Johnson, Jordan. "Revolutions as rhetorical movements: a movement study of the Egyptian Arab Spring Revolution." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/19705.

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Master of Arts
Communications Studies
Charles J. Griffin
The 2011 Arab Spring Revolutions across the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region drew international attention to the collection action phenomenon of revolutions. Despite having a significant impact on today’s globalized world, revolutions have been widely unexplored by social movement rhetorical scholars. This lack of study has prompted scholars to call for the investigation of the role human agency plays during revolutions (Morris, 2000). Rhetorical scholars are well-suited to meet this call but lack a methodological framework to examine revolutions. In responding to Morris’ call and with an interest in adding to the body of rhetorical social movement literature, this thesis asks two research questions. What are the rhetorical characteristics of revolutions? Are revolutions rhetorically distinct from social movements? To answer these questions, this thesis translates Jack Goldstone’s (1998) Divergent View of Social Movements and Revolutions into a rhetorical model for studying revolutions. This adaptation of the political science model relies heavily on Leland Griffin’s (1969) and Charles Stewart’s (1980) models of social movements. Additionally, the adapted model also incorporates James Wilkinson’s (1989) discussion of revolutionary rhetorical functions. The application of the new rhetorical model to the Egyptian Arab Spring reveals revolutions rhetorically develop and function in ways that creates a clear distinction between revolutions from social movements. These findings prompt discussion of methodological and critical implications.

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