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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Community Resistance"”.
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COMMUNITY RESISTANCE TO CANADIAN TRANSNATIONAL MINING OPERATIONS IN LATIN AMERICA
… and Indigenous rights has elicited widespread resistance to mining from surrounding communities. A considerable amount of literature has explored the dynamics of this anti-mining activism, with most articles exploring a particular case study or feature of a few cases. However, a region-wide …
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Globalization, land expropriation, and community resistance: a case study in Wanbao community, Miaoli County, Taiwan
… on the land expropriation experience of Wanbao Community, a rural farming community located in the middle-west part of Taiwan that has successfully resisted land expropriation through a grassroots movement. This paper strives to offer the following: a comprehensive understanding of the …
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Policy, Participation and Empowerment: A Case Study of Community Resistance to Shells Seismic Blasting in the Eastern Cape
… series of court cases, namely the local fisher community1 and Shell Corporation together with Government. The claim is that this is largely a result of the conflicting and sometimes opposing policy rhetoric within government policy. I focus on conflicting elements within the National …
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"Reframing the right to education in the ""Chilean neoliberal experiment"": a multi-sited case study of community resistance to public school closings"
… successfully resisted school closings in their community. I address these issues by conducting a mixed-methods study based on two methodological approaches: A critical discourse analysis of the right to education as it is elaborated in the Chilean constitution and a multi-sited case study in …
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Higher Education Mergers: Challenges Blending Organizational Culture And The Influence Of Leaders
… emerged from the data: organizational culture, community resistance, communication, transparency, relationship-building, model behavior, change management, decisive leadership, visibility, decision-making, and integration. Findings in the study provided details of the challenges faced and the …
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Equity and Excellence: The Story of Lake Shore Community High School's Quest for Racial Justice in Education
… with racial achievement disparities faced strong community resistance. Leadership and a perfect storm of social and political factors made successful implementation of a detracking initiative possible. School community leaders and staff were interviewed about their experiences of systemic change …
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A holistic approach to Mima mound prairie restoration
… goal of creating a self-sustaining native plant community. Therefore, a major goal of my thesis has been to explore and test restoration approaches that might help realize such plant communities. These approaches include ecologically based invasive plant management (EBIPM) and assisted …
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Global justice buzz : the visual rhetoric of the Beehive Design Collective
… they show these interruptions as real sites of community resistance, celebration and possibility. I conclude that their in person presentations are especially effective ways to critically explain complex transnational economic and social issues, and that their presentations and art can cultivate …
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Fitting and re-fitting : adaptive re-use proposal for building 114 in the Charlestown Navy Yard as a bio-tech research facility
… presence, design restrictions, neighborhood community resistance, uncertainty of neighboring development and isolation from main circulation and business operations in the Yard ...
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Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Marquette County Michigan's Wastewater
… resistant bacteria survive and pass antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) to their progeny cells. Few ARG studies have utilized wastewater influent samples as a method of surveillance in rural communities in the United States. This study investigated ARGs in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Two samples …
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How to cultivate a sustainable club music ecosystem : an exegesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Creative Enterprise, Toi Rauwhārang, Massey University, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand
Club music has always been an art-form rooted in community, resistance and freedom. It is a powerful and potent music form that has captured audiences and become a staple in contemporary night life around the world, offering life-affirming moments and a convivial experience of the cities it …
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Change in the Structure of Soil Microbial Communities in Response to Waste Amendments
… energy, and nutrient supply, but also antibiotic resistance genes (ARG), antimicrobials, and a multitude of microbial species. This project seeks to primarily assess if there is a change in bacterial community structure in response to poultry litter amendments to pasture land across geographically …
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Syndemic Health Impacts and Environmental Risk Perceptions Associated with Mining Among the Ch'orti' of Eastern Guatemala
… with the processes, along with the growing community resistance and opposition to mining operations. The individual impacts of each of these components are understood, but a deeper understanding of the syndemic effects of a mine operating in a community, particularly in an indigenous …
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Superintendent evaluation and other influences on the school board and superintendent relationship: Measuring strength of relationship
… federal mandates, decreasing school funding, and community resistance to change? The purpose of this study was to determine the relative effects of factors (evaluation, conflict, political climate, superintendent influence, teaching & learning style, board training, and overall Strength of …
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An Implementation Outcomes Evaluation for the Nal?ibali FUNda Leader Network: Eastern Cape Province
… clubs. While some interviewees discussed some community resistance, they shared the strategies adopted to raise awareness about the importance of the intervention among the parents and the community, resulting in subsequent support for the programme. This dissertation reports the findings of …
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Contracting sustainable and responsible energy investment: trends, actors and grass-roots innovations for multi-level governance
… (in favour of foreign investors). Recent global resistances and increasing investment disputes have also demonstrated that the conflicts between investment protection and other public policy goals - e.g. environmental protection, public health and labour rights - are becoming a key concern for …
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Understanding conflicting rationalities in city planning: a case study of co-produced infrastructure in informal settlements in Kampala
… in the signing of an agreement to enable community residents and the state to jointly improve the living conditions of people in informal settlements in Kampala. This marked the beginning of a new form of state-society relations, called co-production. These relations have grown, evolved …