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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Community-organizing"”.
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Community organizing practice and negotiation : shared principles and methods
… between the principles and methods of community organizing practice and diplomatic negotiations through comparative textual analysis of the literature in both fields, interviews with diplomatic negotiators, and an online survey of community organizers. The data suggests shared …
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Addressing Climate Change through Community Organizing and Machine Learning
… Aim one is developing EarthDNA Ambassadors, a community that “ripens” the issue of climate change by connecting leaders, empowering students, and engaging the world on climate. Aim two is developing the Earth Intelligence Engine, which uses AI to generate satellite images of the future, …
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The Colorado Community Organizing Collaborative: A Critical Realist Case Study
… and structural interactions of the Colorado Community Organizing Collaborative emerged. These findings illustrate that critical realism can be used in social work research to broaden the discipline's perception of human and environment. Archer's (2000) grounding of agency in three orders of …
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Ways of contending : community organizing and development in neighborhood context
This thesis explores community organizing by Community Development Corporations (CDCs), the different outcomes achieved by organizing campaigns, and the factors that contribute to their successes and failures. Among organizing outcomes, I focus not only on policy victories and physical or economic …
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From needs to action : community organizing at Heritage Common, Lawrence, Massachusetts
… and their methods have on the process of community organizing. It specifically focuses on Heritage Common, a subsidized housing development in Lawrence, Massachusetts with a population comprised of 81% Latino residents. A survey on the social service needs of the residents was conducted …
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Streetwise for book smarts : culture, community organizing, and education reform in the Bronx
Education organizing groups that have similar goals frequently employ divergent political strategies in their campaigns. In the literature on social movement organizations, such differences are usually attributed to variations in political context, or variations in resources. This dissertation …
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Uncovering an Alternative Social Structure to Social Dominance: A Blend of Ethnography and Community Based Participatory Research
… between populations. This study explored one community organizing group who is challenging social dominance by creating alternative social structures. The methods of this study included Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) and Arts Based Research (ABR) as ways to generate middle-range …
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The translation of media technology skills to community mobilization in youth programs
… and alternative media is especially valuable for community organizing. Youth media programs can play a great role in the development of media technology as a community-building tool. This study proposes that a key way to bring youth into community mobilization efforts is through their interest in …
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Planning Tremé : the community development field in a post-Katrina world
A Network of community development (CD) organizations in New Orleans and nationwide collectively framed Hurricane Katrina in 2005 as the result of willful government failure to protect an original American city and its most vulnerable residents. They saw their efforts to equitably redevelop the …
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Explaining Retention in Community-Based Movement Organizations
… initial acceptance of a recruitment pitch from a community-based social movement organization is usually based upon minimal information about the group and its efforts. It is only during the subsequent period of orientation that new members begin to learn more about the organization. During this …
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Community Resilience Training Project Proposal
The Community Resilience Training (CRT) Project Proposal is a design for the creation and implementation of a multi-level, adaptive curriculum designed to improve community resilience to disasters and other major disruption. Grounded in chaos theory and the complexity paradigm of disaster response, …
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Community Resilience Training Project Proposal
The Community Resilience Training (CRT) Project Proposal is a design for the creation and implementation of a multi-level, adaptive curriculum designed to improve community resilience to disasters and other major disruption. Grounded in chaos theory and the complexity paradigm of disaster response, …
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Technology against technocracy : toward design strategies for critical community technology
… as Civic Tech and highlights other relevant community-organizing and activist practices that utilize technology as a central component. First, I develop critiques of Civic Tech as a dominant technocratic, neoliberal approach to democracy and bureaucracy and trace the history and intellectual …
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Plugging Into Movement Work: White Racial Justice Action in the Era of Colorblind Racism
… were involved in one or more of the following: community organizing, education, religious work and cultural arts. Research data was primarily generated/collected through qualitative interviews, and secondarily through an examination of participant artifacts and through participant observation. …
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Trying Times: Disability, Activism, and Education in Samoa, 1970-1980
… disability, illness, inclusive education, and community organizing. Through interviews and analysis of archival documents, stories, cultural myths, legends related to people with disabilities, pamphlets, and newspaper media, I examine how disability advocates and people with disabilities …
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I Matter, As Does the World: Critical Consciousness in Higher Education
… describes how graduate students in a community organizing class move along the critical consciousness pathway. Critical consciousness in the academic arena is critical to the development of democratic participation and agency in students. Critical consciousness is the ability to see, …
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Visioning our community : using urban design to move from "don't want" to "want"
Communities often find difficulty in organizing against the siting of locally unwanted land uses. While residents find ease in expressing what they do not want, they often fail to express what they do want, causing their ultimate exclusion from land use decision. This thesis examines how …
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The role of environmental justice in the fight against gentrification
… to environmental issues and how they are using community organizing to confront it. This research is based on case studies of six environmental justice organizations with active anti-gentrification campaigns, located in Boston, Oakland, Portland, Austin, San Francisco, and Brooklyn. After years …
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Private land, public interest : small town meets big dairy
… the process by which a sparsely-populated rural community organizes itself in an attempt to disallow this type of facility from being sited in their area. Like poor urban communities, poor rural communities have found themselves the recipients of the wastes that are unwanted by larger, wealthier, …
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Sighting public history : a re-education on race and space in the City of Chicago
… through politics, art, cultural programming, and community organizing? Ultimately, Sighting Public History asks, what kinds of history do Chicago's black communities carry, and how are these histories carried?
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