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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Community activists"”.
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The mermaids dive for freedom: Voices of feminist community activists plunging through neoliberal times
… based on a narrative inquiry with three feminist community activists. Its purpose is to provide a resource to support the radical praxis of feminist community educators in a neoliberal context which has appropriated both community education and feminism for a labour market agenda. It foregrounds …
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Linking burnout and epistemology in community activists : towards a better understanding of the psychological factors that put adults at-risk of buring out
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1995.
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The Harrison High School Walkouts of 1968: Struggle for Equal Schools and Chinanismo in Chicago
… in Chicago, Mexicano students, parents, and community activists forged a spirit of Chicanismo to fit their unique circumstances and local context for urban school reform during the height of the civil rights era.
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Teaching Activist Intelligence: Feminism, the Educational Experience and the Applied Women's Studies Department at CGU
<p>The need to teach students how to be community activists becomes increasingly relevant as women's studies continues to evolve from its activist roots. Living in a culture that discourages activist work, many women's studies students feel passionately about activist issues, but with frustrating …
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Packaging poverty: tourism, violence, and the politics of space in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
… field research with tourists, residents, and community activists in/of Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on participant-observation at Rio de Janeiro’s State Ministry of Tourism, on critical analysis of popular discourse and of federal and state urban planning policies and programs, this …
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Pride Denied
… institutions as well as queer and trans community activists.
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Radical engagement: public library partnerships with activist organizations for young adult engagement
… of reduced funding and staff with increased community need, Richmond Public librarians have pursued partnerships with community groups to increase the visibility of the library in the community and to expand the library’s programming workforce. Several of the most successful partnerships at …
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Making Sense of Community Informatics: The Development and Application of the Community Event Research Method
… findings include: the framework (CERM) based on community events and organized in three steps (representation, alignment, engagement) and three design principles for community ICTs. The thesis concludes that designing a participatory community ICT rests on three general principles that help us …
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Nuancing Human Rights Discourse and Practice: Perspectives from Myanmar
… action research project with human rights activists in Myanmar, this study builds on discourse around inherent power imbalances in international human rights work by highlighting voices often left out of the human rights discourse. Using postcolonial and third world feminist frameworks, …
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Campus battlegrounds: Puerto Rican student activism in higher education and community leadership in Chicago, 1970-1985
… Throughout this period, Puerto Rican student activists fought to transform a racist higher education system. I argue that higher education served as a training battleground where Puerto Rican student activists could systematize and articulate community knowledge to address educational, …
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The Harrison High School walkouts of 1968: struggle for equal schools and Chicanismo in Chicago
… in Chicago, Mexicano students, parents, and community activists forged a spirit of Chicanismo to fit their unique circumstances and local context for urban school reform during the height of the civil rights era.
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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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Achieving Justice Through Public Participation: Measuring the Effectiveness of New York's Enhanced Public Participation Plan for Environmental Justice Communities
… ground those measures through interviews with community activists, environmental justice advocates and regulatory agency staff and apply the grounded measures in a comparative case study of permitting processes that did or did not trigger New York's environmental justice policy. The data, …
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Lifting the Veil off Widowhood: Portraits of Transformation
… are professionals, educators, businesswomen, and community activists, to learn how their lives have been transformed since the death of their spouse. For this study, the death of a spouse was seen as a transforming event in the life of a married woman. The nature of this transformation varied with …
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Conflicting Narratives and Frames in Media Reporting on Deaths of Racialized Men with Mental Health Issues at the Hands of the Criminal Justice System
… emotional outbursts by the victims' families, community, activists and the general pubic. These controversial cases have become a regular feature in the news. Using thematic analysis, I examine news reporting on the deaths of two racialized individuals with mental illness at the hands of law …
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GENRE FLUIDITY AND WRITING IDENTITY: ACTIVIST WRITERS, QUEER FEMINIST RHETORICS, WORKING FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
… texts (humanities scholarship) and working with community member participants (social science scholarship) who are activists engaged in working for social and economic justice (the ultimate goal of my work). This intentional genre-fluidity in the text is queer (open to new forms and to possible …
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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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New Media, new voices : supporting civic engagement in low-income communities of color
… tool to engage residents. It focuses on community-based organizations as key actors in increasing digital access. The research begins by examining the literature, finding a gap in scholarship on new media technology and civic engagement in low-income communities of color. The thesis then …
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Highway madness! : politics and citizen participation in postwar U.S. traffic safety technology and policy
… that have influenced governments, industry, and community and citizen activists since the 1940s. The terms, education, engineering, and enforcement, detailed in the Action Program for Traffic Safety were developed by engineers and U.S. federal government traffic safety experts in response to …
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A Mixed-Methods Study of Resident Readiness, Engagement, and Relocation During Mixed-Income Redevelopment
… have engaged in formal planning processes and community organizing as a way to be prepared for the change.</p> <p>The study posed three research questions: (1) what predicts a community's readiness for MIR, (2) what predicts resident involvement as community activists in neighborhood …
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