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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Collective actions"”.
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Collective Actions: Co-Creation in Documentary
… (2015); a field study and book with MIT Press, Collective Wisdom (2018-22); and my ongoing research and incubation initiative at MIT called WORLDING (2021-2025). Based on these works, I identify co-creative strategies and frameworks that illuminate some of the most urgent possibilities of the …
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Collective actions for poverty reduction in Nigeria and South Africa: Exploring the perspectives of elites and the poor
This thesis proposes that a successful poverty reduction and economic development in Nigeria and South Africa lies on the willingness and synergy between elites and the poor. Perceptions of poverty studies either draw the perspectives of the poor or the elites or other groups of stakeholders in …
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Conceptualizing the European Regional Diversity on Collective Actions : How to Understand and Define the Right to Strike after the Rome II Regulation and Laval Quartet
Lainsäädäntötoimenpiteet sosiaalisten perusoikeuksien kuten lakko-oikeuden ja järjestäytymisoikeuden osalta eivät lähtökohtaisesti kuulu EU:n toimivaltaan. Siitä huolimatta Euroopan unionin tuomioistuimen viimeaikaiset ratkaisut asioissa Viking, Laval ja Rüffert ovat luoneet oman haasteensa …
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Social identity processes involved in the acceptance and collective actions regarding large-scale energy technologies: The case of deep geothermal energy in Cornwall, Wales and Scotland.
… the relevance of investigating normative and collective efficacy beliefs in the acceptance of large-scale energy technologies. The second pathway pointed out the relevance of investigating perceived identity support and threat from the technology, autonomy need, fairness perception, and risk …
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Eu saí da rua, mas a rua não saiu de mim: narrativas de pessoas em situação de rua em ações coletivas de luta e resistência.
… homelessness, before and after involvement in collective actions; (3) identify how individuals narratively perform their identities and become militants; and (4) analyze experiences of homelessness and involvement in the movement, based on networks of solidarity, conflicts and resistance …
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Finding Your Pulse: Insidious Trauma, Psychological Distress, and Collective Action Among Sexual Minority Latinx
… Latinx people. Additionally, group-specific collective action (i.e., ethnic/racial collective action, sexual minority collective action, immigration collective action) were examined as potential moderators in these respective links. Combined collective action (mean level of collective action …
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From social movements to contentious politics a comparative critical literature review across the U.S. and China
… of America’s social movements and China’s collective actions in the same “frame.” By making a comparison, this thesis tries to construct a theoretical dialogue between the studies across both countries. At the same time, it criticizes over-generalizing the mode “democratic-nondemocratic” in …
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State, Dissidents, and Contention: Iran, 1979-2010
… and mechanisms behind the routinization of collective actions in Iran since the early 1990s, which continue despite state repression? Why and under what circumstances does a strong authoritarian state that has previously marginalized its contenders tolerate some forms of contention despite …
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From the streets to the villages: aboriginal movement in Taiwan; the transformation of ethnic identity from the 1980s to 1990s
… in inquiring of the structural dynamics of collective actions and some laid emphases on collective identity in social movement. Based upon these discussions, this research inquires the dynamics of initiation of Taiwan's pan-aboriginal movement and the triggers of its orientation shifts by …
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Struggles for Recognition: Analyzing Democratization Effects of Social Movements
… and culminate from the combined impact of interactions and discourses in the form of mechanisms. Each process---regime policy changes, reformulations of objectives and identities, and scale and scope shifts---has a set of associated mechanisms that dialectically impact the development, emergence …
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Taking an occupational lens to worker voice and preference for labor representation
… service or knowledge sector occupations. Recent collective actions among these occupations including union organizing, protests, and petitions suggest a potential infection point for unions and the labor movement. Yet, there are reasons to doubt whether existing labor forms and labor law can …
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Anthills built to order : automating construction with artificial swarms
… complex structures, which emerge through the collective actions of many simple agents acting with no centralized control or preplanning. These natural systems motivate investigating the use of artificial swarms to automate construction or fabrication. The goal is to be able to take an …
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A systematic study of real estate core funds : herd behavior and performance attribution analysis
… where managers base investment decisions on the collective actions of the market rather than their individual beliefs, may be present in the core fund industry. Regression analysis suggests that herding appears to be positively correlated with fund size and negatively correlated to leverage, …
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Scalable and Modular Manufacturing of Insect-Scale Aerial Robots Towards Swarm Flight Demonstrations
… behaviors, thereby constraining research on collective actions and potential applications such as distributed sensing. To overcome these obstacles, this work introduces a scalable and modular fabrication method for sub-gram MAVs. A parametric design algorithm automatically generates laser …
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Contributions of a minerals industry cluster to sustainable development: A case study on human and social capital in Richards Bay, South Africa
… the importance of skills development and of collective action between various stakeholders centred on the Hillside smelter of South 32, and including interviews with representatives of ten further stakeholders. Evidence found shows that the minerals industry cluster has contributed to human …
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Digital Echoes of a Movement: Analyzing the Evolution of the WomanLifeFreedom Movement through Hashtag Analysis
… how protesters strategically organized collective actions before the regime's repressive actions. Despite the central slogan 'WomanLifeFreedom' and the movement's origins in the death of a 22-year-old girl, my findings show that the movement not only focused on women's rights but mainly …
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Dança autobiográfica – multivocalidade do self encenado a partir e além da carne negra
… of a radical subjectivism; c) this favors shared collective actions, discarding the need for strategies of identity self affirmation, common, above all, in minorities’ collectives; from this perspective d) the auto-biographic dance contributes for a recognition of human identity, in the complexity …
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Kvinnor mot krig : aktioner och nätverk för fred 1914–1940
… investigate how and why women established peace actions during World War I and the period between the wars. I have examined how women were mobilized, how the actions were carried out, what kind of opposition was awakened, and what happened afterwards. My startingpoint is collective actions based …
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Contested valleys : reclaiming the common landscape in Bisri, Lebanon
… environmentally and socio-culturally preserved collective landscape. Through sectional studies, design strategies are proposed as a way to both protest the continuous threat on the landscape and offer a toolkit for action. This toolkit presents a set of interventions that allow for the …
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Can Networks and Interactions Help us Understand the Euboian Koinon?
… by a group of communities able to mobilise a collective identity. This case study supports the idea that interactions were key to forming the koina (Mackil, 2013) while suggesting that rather than being irregular the Euboians found in their occasional collective actions a level of cooperation …
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