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Showing 1 to 20 of 1218 for “"activism"”.
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Women's Activism in the Toxic Waste Movement: The Dialectics of Gender and Activism
… relevance of gender identity for understanding activism and the importance of superseding essentialist constructions of gender.
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Advocated in Brand Activism? How Represented Consumers Experience and Evaluate Activism in the Marketplace
… have increasingly participated in brand activism, taking a stance on a divisive sociopolitical issue. Although research has examined brand activism’s effect on general stakeholder groups, little is known about how brand activism is perceived by those represented in activism messages. This …
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Repair-Making: Craft, Narratives, Activism
… and implicitly and explicitly relating to activism. Repair-Making is social as well as material: a field of exciting actions, communities and politics, changing objects, mindsets and habits. Underpinned by a philosophical and material understanding of hope, the relationship between the …
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Revisiting Feminism: Academics versus Activism
… because there still exist many opportunities for activism, albeit different sorts of activism, based on different sorts of political issues that complement our present needs and abilities.
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Exogenous Influences and Paths To Activism
… was to ascertain the indirect effects upon activism of intervening variables and recognized exogenous influences upon activism. In addition, this research also focused upon the differences and similarities of a recruited activist model and spontaneous activist model. Regression and path …
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Trigger Point Theory as Aesthetic Activism
Trigger Point Theory as Aesthetic Activism: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Environmental Restoration Aviva A. Rahmani This dissertation presents a new approach to addressing environmental degradation based on transdisciplinary ecological art. Transdisciplinarity is defined here as merging art and …
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Afro-Canadian activism in the 1960s
Afro-Canadian activism became increasingly militant in the 1960s. The rise in militancy in the Afro-American leadership of the 1960s was one factor contributing to the new era of black politics in Canada. Increased immigration from the West Indies also encouraged the proliferation of Afro-Canadian …
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Contestational design : innovation for political activism
This thesis presents contestational design, a unique form of design activity whose aim is promote particular agendas in contested political arenas. I propose a framework for analyzing contestational design processes, which I then apply to two initiatives that developed communications infrastructure …
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Essays on Stakeholder Activism and Firm Practices
… emergence and evolution of novel forms of social activism, including those coming from organizational members, such as employees and shareholders. The first study of my dissertation takes the context of bottom-up activism and explores how activists' employees influence corporate behaviour. I …
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The mayinje house : an architecture of activism
My initial interest in undertaking a research project in Cape Town, was locked by my outsider's gaze into vibrant urban images of townships and informal settlements. It was nurtured by a free South Africa's much publicized need for decent housing, and my projection of involvement with design …
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The Mayinje House : an architecture of activism
The Mayinje House: an architecture of activism
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Essays on Hedge Fund Activism and Family Firm
… dissertation has two essays covering hedge fund activism and family firm. In the first essay of my dissertation, I investigate how hedge fund activism reengineer corporate culture of targeted firms. By using culture measures based on the Q&A section of earnings conference calls, I find that …
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Intersectional subaltern counterpublics: UndocuQueer online activism and testimonios
… activists engage in multiple forms of activism via social media, such as participating in marches and civil disobedience and sharing events, workshops, petitions, and donation pages. Overall, this study provides a rich description of how marginalized communities, especially those of the …
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An Institutional Lens on Firm Responses to Activism
Scholars have given considerable attention to how activists influence social change in organizations. These studies have primarily examined how external pressures (e.g., protests, boycotts) affect the likelihood of firm concessions to social activists. However, extant research has not given due …
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The Lavender Tide: LGBTQ Activism in Neoliberal Argentina
<p>Beginning with the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2010 and following up with the passage of the gender identity law of 2012, Argentina has quickly catapulted itself to the forefront of LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, queer) rights in the world. This study sets out to answer a simple …
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The intersection of political activism and brand advertising
… This document explores the use of political activism in brand advertising, defined broadly as brand promotions that take stances on social-political issues that align with the brand's consumers and stakeholders. Research follows a qualitative visual analysis methodology in analyzing a …
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Work as feminist activism: a qualitative case study
… observations are used to form theory on work as activism, based on her life history. This includes her work in teaching and other organizations that have social justice as their mission. The methodological reflection is communicated in chapter four and gives insight into the process of feminist …
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