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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Collective Agency"”.
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The Collective Agency of Black Farmer Organizers in Virginia Advocating for Racial Justice in the Food System
… sovereignty are socio-political efforts to build collective power and agency. This study builds on the work of Monica White and utilizes a Collective Agency Theory (CAT) lens in exploring the role of Black farmer organizers and their cross-sectoral relationships as they re-imagine the food system …
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A transnational religious institution and its role on the construction of collective agency : a case of Korean military brides in a Korean immigrant religious institution
… volume of transnational practices foster agency construction across borders, thereby disjoining geographical space and social space in which identities are constructed and negotiated. Unlike the majority of previous studies, this study examines the agency dynamics among less mobile …
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A Phenomenological Exploration of Saudi Women Employees’ Perception of Agency and Career Advancement
… the perception of promotability as it related to agency norms experienced by Saudi women with at least two years of employment experience and working in mixed-gender environments in Saudi Arabia. The study examined the lived experiences of Saudi women employed in Mecca, Madinah, Jeddah, and …
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Staying together while learning: Relational work & the construction of collective institutional agency
… is consistent that organizations must work collectively to address them (Berrone et al., 2016; Dorado, 2005). However, because these challenges are also uncertain and evaluative, there is often little agreement about what constitutes desirable change, or what path to take to get there. In …
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Social agency in alpine communal forests : local actors' interactions with communal forests and participation in communal forestry in the French and Swiss Alps
… their age and their gender. Describing twenty collective agency processes, we develop a typology based on who takes part, why and how. Then we compare these processes in their capacity to either reproduce or change social structures and their relative dependency or autonomy from state …
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Daydreaming Devices
… works cultivate relations between personal and collective agency while demystifying implicit aspects of socialization. They were designed as utilitarian and emotional artifacts; existing in public or semipublic spaces, they reach their maximum potential when activated within a group of people. …
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Beliefs and Technology - Does One Lead to the Other? Evaluating the Effects of Teacher Self-Efficacy and School Collective Efficacy on Technology Use in the Classroom
… investigate the influence of teacher self- and collective efficacy on technology use in the classroom. This population was purposefully sampled to examine first- and second order technology barriers, instructional strategies, and human influences on technology. The quantitative finding was …
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In search of recognition: youth participation In 'traditional' dancing In Nyanga, Cape Town
… dancing offers them a creative space to activate collective agency, negotiate visibility, being human and participate in community. Building on research about youth, dance, and recognition, I argue that youth in Nyanga employ economic, artistic, and organizational strategies in their ‘traditional' …
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Is there a human right to democracy?
… exist. Part 1 uses discussions about corporate agency and the conditions of corporate responsibility to argue that a group's capacity for responsible collective agency depends on four things: its ability to form collective intentions, an internal culture that orients the formation of personal …
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Exploring Rojiroti’s influence on girls’ education in rural India: Understanding the mechanisms and pathways for change
… may then experience shifts in individual and collective agency which could influence their ability to support girls’ education. Secondary panel data were analysed and found that Rojiroti members experienced significant positive impacts on their spending on children’s education. Choosing to …
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Masculinized Labor Activism and Geographies of Household Reproduction in Thailand’s ‘Detroit’
<p>This PhD dissertation project focuses on the collective agency of Thai organized workers—a group of regional migrant workers in one of Thailand’s most industrialized areas—whose labor geography and organizations were conditioned by Thai state-capital-labor relations. It examines how the social, …
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The Racialization of Dine (Youth) in Education
… highlights the need for increased individual and collective agency among Indigenous scholars, activists, educators, and communities especially within the contexts of education to embrace, engage, and rearticulate an Indigenous pedagogy that is transformative and revolutionary.'
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Mobile Labour and Worker Resistance Strategies: A Study of Waste Collectors in Singapore
… process. As such, my work looks at the agency of mobile workers in relation to the structural constraints placed upon them. Focusing specifically on the resistance strategies employed by waste collectors, I seek to examine and analyse the practices and means through which the garbage …
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Radio Power: An exploration of agency for the participants of a climate change communication campaign in South Africa
… of communication for social change to activate agency in the face of wicked problems could be. I thus decided to explore the potential of media, and community-based radio projects to address wicked problems and catalyse agency. I studied the impact of a youth-led sustainable living radio …
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"It wasn't the end that I was so much interested in, it was the journey": Stories of women who pursued a PhD later in life
… program; and how they used their individual and collective agency to grapple with structural barriers. In-depth interviews were conducted to gather the womens stories. The findings showed that while all the women came from modest beginnings at a time when opportunities for girls were limited they …
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A Praxis of Transformative Care: Centering Historically Resilient Students at a PWI
… as an individual struggle rather than a collective responsibility, obscuring systemic failures. At a predominantly white institution (PWI), historically resilient students, those from diverse backgrounds who have historically endured the structural load of institutional exclusion, carry …
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WE ARE WHAT WE SPEAK: AN AFROCENTRIC ANALYSIS OF THE MANIFESTATION AND IMPACT OF AGENCY REDUCING IDENTITIES FOUND ON INSTAGRAM
Michael Tillotson’s Agency Reduction Formation theory is designed to expose, situate, and explain ideological trends that are intended to compel African people to distance themselves from their collective identity (Tillotson 2011, 62). Identity provides African people the internal construction to …
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A seat at the table : an instrumental case study on the personal and professional strategies of resistance Black women professionals adapt while employed at a predominantly White institution.
… cultivating a thriving environment and sense of agency. Applying Black Feminist Thought as a guiding principle and framework encourages Black women professionals to exhibit personal and professional strategies of resistance in their pursuit of self-preservation and belonging. Black Feminist …
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Structure, institutions and NGOisation: a critical realist approach to normative change in Myanmar civil society
… structural and cultural forces which affect the collective agency and normative orientation of civic actors by shaping the political terrain on which they act, enabling and constraining actors’ form and political objectives. I analyse these changes in Myanmar using critical realism and the …
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The academy and community:seeking authentic voices inside higher education
… realised through the nexus of individual or collective agency. The new model has research and agentic potential as a framework for both investigating and realising the social relations of the intellectual field.
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