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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Grassroots movements"”.
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Transitions in Motion: Accelerating Active Travel Infrastructure in London through Grassroots Groups and Activist Researchers
… transition in motion. In particular, the role of grassroots movements in accelerating transitions and the social aspects of creating transitions. Utilising participatory action research and an adapted bridging methodology, this research aims to analyse mechanisms for speeding up active transport …
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Arthur Mullen: His Impact on Nebraska Politics and the 1932 Convention
… This is the same area which generated the grassroots movements of the Grange, the Alliance, and, most especially, Populism. In the 1920’s, this land produced the so-called Western Progressive who is probably best described as a man embodying in Progressive dress the Populist solution to …
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“Lost in translation?”: Women’s issues in the struggle for national liberation in South Africa (1910-1985)
… of South African Women, by the force of grassroots movements and boycotts, and through the persistence of informal economic efforts, women contributed monumentally to the struggle for black liberation. Through the examination of primary sources and current historiographic debates, the …
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Grassroots Impacts on the Civil Rights Movement: Christian Women Leaders’ Contributions to the Paradigm Shift in the Tactics of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Its Affiliates
… examines the historical factors that built grassroots movements during the civil rights era of the United States. These movements were produced by Christian women leaders, and they influenced a crucial transition in the leadership of the civil rights movement. Through their training and …
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The NGOization of Indian Agricultural Development and Implications for the Agrarian Question
… question by appropriating local thought leaders, grassroots movements' narratives, and Indigenous knowledge, which further perpetuates imperial and colonial structures of rural communities and leads to the de-depeasantization of rural production systems.
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Corporate-Community Mining Conflicts in Guatemala: Unsettling Hegemonic Power Relations in Environmental Struggles
… conflicts intersects with the strategies of grassroots movements, who themselves are engaged in multi-scalar contentious politics. Spatialities shape the conditions of possibility for political action. They matter for the imaginaries, material practices and emergent trajectories of …
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The translation of media technology skills to community mobilization in youth programs
… with an examination of media forms as a tool for grassroots movements. The potential of digital media is particularly emphasized. Secondly, a survey of youth media programs in the United States identifies ways that youth are already being served and provides the background for understanding how …
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The Power of Youth Voices: Uncovering Political and Social and Political Change by Youth in the 20th Century
… chronicle and examine some of the most important movements in American History and illuminate the part young people played within these movements, specifically their establishment of political and social organizations. Beginning with Woman’s Suffrage and ending with the Vietnam War. Asking the …
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A greenways approach to resource management: the process of environmental corridor design
… termed greenways, these projects are generally grassroots efforts to preserve ecologically sensitive resources and at the same time provide for a growing recreational demand. A key feature, essential to the success of these projects, is the development of cooperative public and private …
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Power from the Grassroots : Strategies and Resilience of Cambodian Land and Environmental Activists
… and heightening the need for organized grassroots responses. By analyzing power relations produced by neoliberal, extractivist development under authoritarian rule, and activists’ strategic forms of resistance to them, the study bridges Social Movement scholarship and Development …
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Hostile Takeover: The New Right Insurgent Movement, Ronald Reagan, and the Republican Party, 1977-1984
… of the twentieth century. Some historians credit grassroots movements for their impact on conservatism, while others believe that influential intellectuals and conservative leaders changed the perception of the Republican brand.</p><p>This dissertation examines the contentious relationship between …
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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 …
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Becoming a Side: Legal Mobilization and Environmental Protection in Poland
… of “becoming a side” by examining how members of grassroots movements move from local protest to proactive environmental and energy policy formation at the national level. I analyze two cases: mobilization against air pollution in Kraków, and the struggle against shale gas exploration in Żurawlów. …
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Knowledge in the making : embodying transdisciplinary moments on organic agriculture in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
… has been historically intertwined with social movements that struggled for more economically, ecologically, culturally, and socially sustainable agriculture. While these grassroots movements emerged under an authoritarian government that showed little interest in organic agriculture, the turn …
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Hip-Hop, Medellín and Social Change
<p>This study explores the ways in which the Hip-hop movement is producing social change in Medellín, Colombia. Looking specifically at a Hip-hop school called <em>Cuatro Elementos Skuela</em>, which exists autonomously and with very little state support in the Medellín neighborhood of Aranjuez, I …
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Imagination in the public domain: The case of the homeless workers movement (MTST) in São Paulo, Brazil
… through the ethnographic case study of the grassroots housing Homeless Workers Movement (MTST ─ Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem-Teto) in the São Paulo Metropolitan Area, Brazil. Field data was collected in December 2016 and January 2017 through in-person interviews, focus groups, content …