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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Grassroots Social Movements"”.
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If There Wasn’t Farming, Somebody Wouldn’t Eat: Small Scale Agriculture, Community Autonomy, And Food Sovereignty In Mississippi
… historical context of small scale farming and grassroots social movements in Mississippi’s history, and investigates the ways small farmers and community advocates are drawing upon their land-based heritage and local knowledge systems to create community-controlled food systems in dialogue with …
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Alliances, assemblages, and affect: Teacher activism within and beyond the union in Saskatchewan
… through their engagement with both the power of grassroots social movements and the institutional authority of their union. Guided by Harding et al.’s (2018) poststructural framework of alliances, assemblages, and affects, this dissertation utilized Bartlett and Vavrus's (2017) comparative case …
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Quiet conflict : social movements, institutional change, and upgrading informal settlements in South Africa
… internal state bureaucracies. But experiences of social movements for land and housing have shown that significant opportunities for formal institutional change occur through relationships of both contestation and collaboration between such movements and state institutions, especially at the local …
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The Burden of Witnessing: Media and Mobilization in the Age of Genocide
… organizations from international NGOs to local grassroots social movements, who use cameras to document abuses and appeal to action. Embedded in these uses is the Enlightenment conviction that exposure, the making public of these situations, will engender the logical response of action. However, …
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Claiming Space, Redefining Politics: Urban Protest and Grassroots Power in Bolivia
… of space-claiming protests by primarily left grassroots social movements in Bolivia's current political transformation. <em>Space claiming</em> includes mass protests that physically control or symbolically claim urban space through occupations of plazas and roads, sit-ins, blockades, and …