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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Civic agency"”.
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“I’ll Make a Captain Among Ye, and Do Somewhat to be Talk of Forever After”: Female Civic Agency in Sir Thomas More’s Staged Insurrection
… within the historical context of female civic agents who participated in, and sometimes even led, popular protests and other forms of communal resistance. In so doing, I demonstrate that Doll is not simply a farcical representation of gender-role transgression but a performative …
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MOCI : Museum of contemporary information
… context which promotes personal interaction and civic engagement. The library has the potential to become the center of a new civic space; a space that encourages active engagement with information and civic agency.
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“Fixed Mindsets” and the Deprecation of Youth Voice
… research toward understanding self-efficacy and civic agency. It was situated in a framework of Critical Race Theory (Bryant et. al., 2015) critical consciousness (Furman, 2012; Shih, 2018), and Participatory Action Research (Maguire, 1987). Through in-depth interviews, focus groups and …
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The Abstract Ecology of Modern Life: Re-imagining Environments as Public Spheres
… is doubly challenged by the atrophy of the civic spirit and the general apathy of most citizens in the face of environmental destruction. In a search for an explanation of these cultural circumstances this essay gathers the sociological critiques of the techno-scientific epistemology and the …
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Democratising Democracy: Reimagining Prisoners as Active Citizens Through Participatory Governance
… the personal experience of participative and civic ‘enfranchisement’ with council members. This study of ‘democracy in unlikely places’ is distinct as it brings prison sociology and democratic theory together empirically. The research is based on quasi-ethnographic fieldwork which included 112 …
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When Rules and Common Sense Collide: Expressions, Roots, and Impact of Informal Civil Society in Ukraine
… fails to recognize the role of below-the-radar civic engagement in contexts where informal practices permeate economic, political and social spheres.</p> <p>Based on 70 in-depth interviews with civil society actors from 14 locations across Ukraine, supplemented by social media data, this …
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Changing values in heritage: shifts from the tangible to intangible in urban historic environments bo-kaap as case study
… of the localised political, governance and civic agency milieu. The study follows the narrative of Bo-Kaap from its origins as a residential quarter of the early Cape colonial settlement, through the mid twentieth century when Bo-Kaap became largely fashioned and formed into an ethnically …