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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"activist research"”.
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Narrative Justice: Lessons and Practices from the Lippitt Hill Critical Oral History Project
… Led by Dannie Ritchie, MD, MPH, and scholar-activists committed to the East Side/Lippitt Hill community of Providence, Rhode Island, our work foregrounds the joy and resistance of Black East Siders in the face of federal, state, and city-sanctioned displacement, dispossession, and wealth …
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Escrita autoral e poder erótico: a experiência do Núcleo de Mulheres Negras – O amor cura na periferia sul de São Paulo
… study, intertwined with my personal, activist and artistic trajectory, uses the understanding and application of the concept of Erotic Power, developed by Audre Lorde ([1978] 2019), to analyze the epistemologies of black and decolonial feminism, present in the practices and written …
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Mapping Ruling Relations Through Homelessness Organizing
… in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. With political activist ethnography as my central theoretical framework and methodological approach, I conducted field research, interviews and textual analysis of City and organizational documents. Focusing on OCAPs homelessness campaigns, I examine the social …
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Community gardening as social action: the Australian community gardening movement and repertoires for change.
… This thesis contributes to a systematic research account of the Australian community gardening movement by considering community gardening as a site of collective social action. Drawing on a tradition of activist research, the analysis focuses on ethnographic case studies of three key …
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Within and Against the Market: The Guatemalan Campesino Movement under Neoliberal Peace
… collected over twelve months of fieldwork using activist research methods, and included participant observation and a total of 137 interviews, survey interviews, and recorded testimonies. Interviews were conducted through the case studies, as well as with an additional ten campesino …
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Aspiring and Doing Activism Under Repressive Systems: A Narrative Inquiry of Former Student Activists
… and contentious actions cannot be done without activists who mobilize and organize students in extremely complex and risky circumstances. Unfortunately, little is known about such activists.</p> <p>The purpose of the research was to study these activists by retrospectively examining former …
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Resistance to state-driven land expropriation in northern Uganda: Counter-hegemonic imagination and the reconstruction of identity, authority, territory, and property
… two-year period of archival inquiry, interviews, activist research and participant observation, the dissertation examines the case of Apaa, where a large-scale struggle entangles peasant resistance to state enclosure of land for conservation, territorial disputes between local governments, and …
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Contesting Risk, Expertise, and Environmental Justice on the Fenceline: The Cases of the Navajo Nation, Radford Arsenal, and Camp Minden
… at Camp Minden, Louisiana. At Radford, scholar-activist research examines the contestations of risk at one of the most hazardous waste facilities in the nation. I analyze the construction of risk from open burning of hazardous waste from a fenceline standpoint. I discursively situate the …
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On Our Terms: Exploring Lived Experience Advocacy Movements to End Homelessness in Canada
… contributors within housing and homelessness research, advocacy and policymaking. Despite growing institutional commitments to inclusion, lived experts encounter implicit and explicit practices and attitudes that marginalize their knowledge and constrain their participation. These practices …