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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Community Activism"”.
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When Urban Education Meets Community Activism: A Case of Student Empowerment in New Orleans
… is an ethnographic study of urban education and community development in the city of New Orleans. In New Orleans, as in all American cities, the public schools are at the center of local politics and the policies that affect community life. Institutions of public education have come under fire …
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Remembering Del-Aware: Community Activism and Eco-Politics in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the Age of Reagan
… Delaware River. As a case study of grassroots community activism during the presidential administration of Ronald Reagan, the struggle known locally as “Dump the Pump” and spearheaded by a nonprofit organization called Del-AWARE supports and provides a regional take on recent scholarship that …
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Black Women in Hattiesburg During World War II: War Work and Community Activism on the Home Front
… for Black women to serve their race, community, and nation in the Jim Crow South. The racially segregated United States Army led to the formation of Hattiesburg’s Sixth Street United Service Organization (USO) in 1942, creating a need for Black women’s involvement and support. Eurkea …
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Silent, no more: The 1974 Kanawha County textbook controversy and the rise of conservatism in America
… rise can be seen in the upsurge of grassroots, community activism in the seventies, the White Backlash associated with the campaigns of George Wallace, the New Right, and the New Christian Right. The thesis shows how the Kanawha County protestors' words and actions paralleled that of …
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Before Me, After Me, Through Me: Stories Of Food And Community In Eastern Kentucky
… specifically connected to food, farming, and community activism in and near Letcher County, Kentucky. The interviews explore such topics as: past and present food traditions, seed saving, gardening, farming, food preservation, herbalism, local food systems, food access, youth, theater arts, …
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Pláticas Liberadoras: Testimonios of Chicana/o Elders en la Comunidad de San Diego
… a conscious choice that involves embracing CC, community activism, and liberatory learning (Alarcón, 1990; Espinoza, 2018; Urrieta, 2007). This study centered the principles of embracing holistic, relational, and collective onto-epistemologies (i.e., Indigenous methodologies), incorporated the …
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From Outreach to Engagement: An Actor-Network-Theory Analysis of Attracting Spanish-speaking Participants to Public Programming
… motivate and demotivate members of this minority community to participate in public programs designed to increase participants’ ability to self-direct?” A conveniently accessed but purposefully selected sample of public service agency employees and Spanish-speaking family members, especially …
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Being branché : a story of refugee advocacy and networking in Montréal and in cyberspace
This is an ethnographic study of Montreal's community of refugee advocates who work on behalf of refugees making requests to the Canadian government for asylum. The goal of this thesis is to portray who refugee advocates are, what they do, how they do it, and why. The study reveals that the work of …
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"Exploring local civic citizenship surrounding the ""¡Huntington Park no se vende!"" campaign on Paseo Boricua in Chicago"
… the participatory democracy practices of a community activist group that was organizing to resist gentrification in a Puerto Rican community in Chicago to see how citizenship can be contextualized as praxis in a particular setting. In order to preserve their community and its Puerto Rican …
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Is There a Role for the Social Activist in the 21st Century: An examination of Social Activists in Waterford City
… been very little research into this aspect of activism in Ireland which was an incentive and an enticement to me as I have a background of political, trade union, community activism and I am also very much interested hearing the stories of the activists. This gave me creditability with the …
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Illness as ethical practice: Truth & subjectivity, governmentality & freedom in HIV/AIDS discourse
… than the efforts and world-views of grass-roots community activism - had achieved ascendancy. This approach to HIV/AIDS remains today the authoritative one, and that from which expertise on the subject is derived. The emergence to pre-eminence of this way of thinking about HIV/AIDS is mapped, and …
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Hip Hop, Bluegrass, Banjos, and Solidarity: Race and Class Histories in Appalachia U.S.A
… of whiteness, an anti-racist framework for community activism, and a centering of Black voice, narrative, and Black liberation.
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Neighborhood Attachment Among Latinos in Low-Income Communities
… about their social commitment to a particular community, has been a central focus of studies involving space and place (Smith 1975) and community activism (Guest and Lee 1983, Crenshaw and St. John 1989) in the U.S. Yet despite the advancement of this work and a growing body of qualitative …
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The South African bread cartel: a single case study exploring the scope for responsive regulation of white-collar crime in a developing country
… of criminology that marginalises the community from regulatory activities. Braithwaite argues that the business and community sectors should play a more significant role in regulating white collar crime within conventional justice systems. According to Braithwaite, community activists …
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A critical analysis of civil society's engagement in South Africa's just energy transition: dynamics and debates
… media, resistance campaigns and grassroots community activism. Whilst there have been considerable victories - including advocating for energy access, justice and broader consultation - CSOs face resource related challenges, threats and power dynamics whilst engaging in JET processes. There …
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Boston Urban Farm : mending the Southwest Corridor
… for a proposed eight lane southwest expressway. Community activism and opposition ensured that the road was never built. For twenty-five year the land has remained virtually vacant: a gash in the landscape that formally separates Roxbury from the rest of Boston. As the wall in Berlin comes down, …
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The Social, Relational and Political Context of Eating Disorders: A Feminist-Informed Grounded Theory Analysis
… eating disorder, a personal sense of agency, and community activism and involvement. The present study adds to the feminist theory and the feminist-relational model by providing a conceptualization of the symbiotic relationship between feminist-informed protective factors, suggesting through …
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Queens Speak - A Youth Participatory Action Research Project: Exploring Critical Post-Traumatic Growth among Black Girls within the School to Prison Pipeline
… power; a focus on their future; an interest in community activism; a desire to leave a legacy; and self-expression through the arts. Using photos, poetry, music and art young women presented their findings to educators and administrators; sharing their experiences within the school-to-prison …
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Heal the Hood: An Exploration of Community and Organizational Assets in Chicago's Twentieth Ward
… (Rappaport, 1984) by utilizing Asset Based Community Development to better understand what community members and organizations deem as current strengths and needs of Chicago’s twentieth ward. The questions that this dissertation explores are What strengths exist in Chicago's 20th ward that …
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Utopia And Commons: Enclosure And Blank Slate In The Americas
… phenomena such as plagiarism, recycling, and community activism, with particular attention paid to Cartonera publishing houses. Chapter 5 attempts to extract a theory of the practice of copyleft capable of both recognizing the entirely novel elements of contemporary cultural production (the …
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