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Showing 1 to 20 of 551 for “"Activist"”.
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Activist hedge funds
… information, is to discuss the attributes of activist hedge funds and how they differ from corporate raiders and private equity firms. The case study then maps activists' most common mechanisms for accomplishing their goals. Finally, the restaurant industry-in particular, Wendy's International …
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Genre And Persona In Activist Websites
… for information stored on computers, digital activist communities use campaign metaphors to signal the intentions of their electronic pages. Although these electronic pages, such as Take Action, Donate, Lobby, and Speak Out, have the same names as their print-based counterparts, they represent …
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Between The Wars: An Activist Novel
… the thesis discusses the process of writing an activist novel that seeks change and yet allows, indeed encourages, the reader to question its beliefs. Idealistic, complex, unflinching, and yet ultimately likeable, Muriel Lester is a challenge to the familiar narratives of 20th century history. …
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The Makings of an Activist: Navigating through an Oppressive System and Understanding the Characteristics of African American Male Activist
… aimed to explore how African American male activists construct their identity through an inductive, qualitative framework. Specifically, the research was designed to address the following research questions (1) How do African American male activists construct their identity? (2) How do …
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Constructing activist identities in post-apartheid South Africa
… moral careers of twenty-six young, middle-class activists, based in Cape Town, South Africa. In doing so it explores the relationship between their activism and identities, and how this relationship is contingent on the social and political context of post-apartheid South Africa. The first part …
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Activist memorialization : bearing witness at St. George's Cathedral
… Specifically, in what ways is memorialization activist? To answer this question I worked with St. George’s Cathedral’s Crypt Memory and Witness Centre on their Bearing Witness exhibit, conducted primary and secondary literature surveys (namely academic articles and books, and periodicals …
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Grassroots mapping : tools for participatory and activist cartography
… and techniques were used by communities and activists in Lima, Peru and during the 2010 BP oil spill highlight the empowering role broader participation in cartography can play in advocacy, and the potential for increased cartographic literacy to level the playing field in territorial …
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Women's education in Afghanistan : activist, Taliban and public views
… the perspectives of diverse groups, including activists, Taliban officials, and the general public. The study aims to explore the attitudes and sentiments surrounding women's education by combining content and sentiment analysis. Extensive data collection encompassed Twitter posts from Afghan …
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The Educational Dimensions of Filipina Migrant Workers’ Activist Identities
… few studies connect Filipina migrant workers’ activist identities to the political education they receive from grassroots organizations in the Philippines, United States, and other countries. Consequently, the purpose of this qualitative study is to research the roles that political education, …
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Leadership for Social Change: Learning from Latina/Chicana Activist Educators
… the everyday working practices of Latina/Chicana activist educators. Yet, academics within the field of Leadership Studies have little knowledge of this relationship or the unique ways in which Latina/Chicana educators engage as leaders, activists and agents for change, specifically in educational …
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Embodied Dissent: Exploring the Activist Turn in Contemporary Cuban Art
… international attention and cultivated an Activist Turn in contemporary Cuban art. This thesis aims to provide insights into the ways in which this phenomenon has taken shape on the island, as well as to explore how Cuban and diasporic artists have engaged with democracy, globalisation, and …
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CollectiveIdentity.org: Collective Identity in Online and Offline Feminist Activist Groups
This study examines collective identity, a concept that is used in social movement theory to understand why people are motivated to participate in social movements and social movement groups. Collective identity is a social-psychological process that links the individual to the group through a …
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Writing to act: developing activist writing curricula for LGBTQQIA community centers
… Questioning, Intersex, and Ally (LGBTQQIA) activist writing groups. The framework synthesizes scholarly and activist writing on queer pedagogy and community literacy and explores how this scholarship realizes some of the goals of queer activism. After a discussion of the author's …
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Activists who win: the effect of activist identity on shareholder voting
This thesis examines the effect of shareholder activist identity on voting outcomes within the context of shareholder proposals and what explains that effect. The extant literature broadly assumes shareholder homogeneity and has focused on the relationship between activists and target firms. In …
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Teacher activist perceptions: should teacher education programs do more to encourage activism?
This study explored whether teacher activists’ perceptions of teacher preparation programs suggest a need to address more than just content and pedagogy. In other words, are teacher preparation programs ignoring critical social components that help new teachers navigate and succeed as professionals …
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Lawyering from Below: Activist Legal Support in Contemporary Canada and the US
… but far less attention has been paid to the way activists respond to involuntary engagement with law as a result of repression and criminalization. This dissertation explores the legal support infrastructure of grassroots protest movements in Canada and the US by tracing the evolution of …
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