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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Social Movement Studies"”.
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Practicing Ecological Security and Making Multispecies Relations in Anti-Base Resistance: Insights from Environmental-Oriented Anti-Base Activists in Henoko and Takae struggles in Okinawa
… activities contributes to (Critical) EJ and social movement studies (SMS) literatures by highlighting non-western forms of resistance and activists’ interpretation and articulation of their particular approaches. Additionally, informed by assemblage theory, my research investigates how …
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Radical Activism in the Misinformation Age - How can Social Movements Counter the Circulation of Online False Information About Climate Change?
… a form of noise-reduction, thereby examining how social movements may deploy peer-produced communication narra- tives to counteract the circulation of online disinformation and misinformation relating to climate change. To investigate this communication dynamic, this research applies techniques …
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Collective Action and the Production of Alternatives in the Crisis-ridden European South: Understanding the Politics of Commoning and Solidarity through the Greek Experience
… by large protest events and polymorphous social movements. These expressions of collective action, most notably the so-called movements of the squares (Indignants), have played a crucial role in challenging the prevailing neoliberal crisis’ politics and opened up the way for the emergence …
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The Social Movement World(s) of UK Heterodox Economics: Constitution, Aims and Practices
… presents a systematic, empirically grounded, social-scientific account of UK heterodox economics. It does so by addressing three central questions: (1) How is UK heterodox economics constituted in discourse and in practice? (2) What does UK heterodox economics aim to achieve? and (3) How do …
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Red October: Left-Indigenous Struggles in Bolivia, 2000-2005
… as well as the core tenets of mainstream social movement studies. The central argument is that a specific combination of elaborate infrastructures of class struggle and social-movement unionism, historical traditions of indigenous and working-class radicalism, combined oppositional …
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Trade Unions and the Media: Exercising and Revitalising Power After the Financial Crisis of 2008
… challenges and opportunities. Each trade union movement’s response depends on the different forms of power they possess and choose to deploy, their strategies and allegiances, and the specific socio-economic and political context in which they are situated. Questions concerning what constitutes …
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Comradery, Class, and Consciousness: A Case Study in Comradery
Recent attempts to save the US labor movement from declining relevancy and membership through social unionism have met with limited results. This work identifies this failure with social unionism's lack of interest in helping members create a robust class consciousness. To this end, I develop the …
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The New Local Activism in Russia : Biography, Event, and Culture
… and St. Petersburg) and the existing theories of social movement studies, social events, and political socialization, the monograph proposes a new approach to the analysis of social and cultural changes through an event. The results show that patterns of activists’ socialization highly influenced …
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An Exploration of the Ogoni People’s Resistance in Nigeria: A Participatory Action Research Approach
… to the Ogoni struggle. The contribution of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People- MOSOP (as agency in this context) to achieve Ogoni self-rule within Nigeria is germane. Though a nonviolent movement, it continues to face the state’s violent reaction against the entire Ogoni people - …
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Protest literacies : texts and practices contesting military policing and mega-events in Rio de Janeiro
… the city of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) concerning social movement responses to so-called ‘mega-events’ due to be hosted there – e.g. the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. Central to contentions were newly implemented policing and housing policies associated with preparations for these …
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The Impact of Protest on Policy-Making in the European Union
… case study of three of the largest protest movements that addressed specific EU policies in the last 15 years: the protests against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ACTA (2012), the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership TTIP (2014-2016), and the EU Copyright Directive …
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Framing reality, choosing the tactic: the Islamic Jihad Movement and the Second Intifada (2000-2005)
… of different tactics by the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine (PIJ) during the Second Intifada (2000-2005). Drawing upon a new dataset on PIJ repertoires of actions and a frame analysis of PIJ written documentation, the analysis demonstrates that the selection and evolution of tactics by …
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Childhood and Social Movements: A Case Study of the National Movement of Children and Youths Peace Managers in Colombia
The intersection between childhood and social movements was an unexplored field of research before 2019. However, over the last 5 years, it seems that scholars have “discovered” childhood in social movements, creating a vibrant new field of research that promises new understandings. The recent …
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Measuring the Connective Action of Black Lives Matter Activists: A Psychometric Investigation into Twitter Data
<p>Many protest movements from the last twenty-first century have become increasingly networked and personalized. Several scholars have tapped into this change coining terms such as participatory action, digitally mediated action, computer-mediated communication, issue-based organization, and what …