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Male anti-rape activists : an exploratory study
… Why some men have chosen to work as anti-rape activists and what ideas these men have about the nature of rape, its causes and the way in which activism should combat rape. Information was gathered from face to face interviews with 12 male anti-rape activists from Cape Town, who were chosen …
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Accidental and lifelong activists: embodied knowledge, identity and learning
… adult education in Australia has concentrated on activists’ pedagogy in the context of critical learning. Learning in social action is largely seen as taking place informally. Learning is tacit and implied and not always identified or articulated as knowledge or learning. This thesis expands and …
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British activists, homeworker rights, and transnational organising, 1994-2004
… external forces, from the ambition of individual activists to the globalisation of supply chains, growing international cooperation, and the collapse of domestic funding streams. It explores the professionalisation of activist organisations, the power relationships between partners in the Global …
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Islamist Biographies: Religious Experiences of South African Muslim Activists
This thesis explores the biographies of Muslim activists who were involved in the South African Islamist movement from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s - tracking their trajectories up till the present. These Islamist biographies can be likened to journeys which include moments of fulfilment, doubt, …
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Critical Consciousness Development of Black Women Activists: A Qualitative Examination
Critical consciousness is important in that it helps oppressed people to broaden their analysis of personal problems, recognize the historical and political contexts in which those problems have developed, and thus occupy a better position from which to engage in actions which will address the root …
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Rebels, Activists, and Repairers: Youth and Social Change in Africa
The popular media commonly depicts children and young people in Africa as either hopelessly undernourished and in desperate need of humanitarian assistance, or as dangerous, unruly and caught up in violence, gang activity, and warfare. As a result there has been a cascade of nongovernmental …
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Movement, knowledge, emotion : gay activists and the Australian AIDS movement
… sociology of knowledge, looking at the way AIDS activists interjected new 'ways of knowing' into existing social discourses about homosexuality as well about as public health and medicine. Part one of the thesis is about the history of homosexuality in Australia and the rise of the AIDS movement. …
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Movement, knowledge, emotion : gay activists and the Australian AIDS movement
… sociology of knowledge, looking at the way AIDS activists interjected new 'ways of knowing' into existing social discourses about homosexuality as well about as public health and medicine. Part one of the thesis is about the history of homosexuality in Australia and the rise of the AIDS movement. …
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Networked activists and the movement for democracy in Hong Kong
… contentious practices to look at how networked activists combine and switch between on- and offline spheres of action, as opposed to the general role of the Internet and its unidirectional impact on collective action. Second, this research orients our attention toward the larger …
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Challenging the Status Quo: System Justification Theory and Impressions of Activists
… the formation of impressions of sociopolitical activists. Our results indicated that under systemic challenge, the impression of the activist target was not significantly different from the non-activist target. However, when the system was affirmed, a strong positive impression of the activist …
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Activists who win: the effect of activist identity on shareholder voting
… and has focused on the relationship between activists and target firms. In contrast, this study places emphasis on intra-shareholder dynamics and demonstrates that activist identity, legitimacy and salience are central to understanding voting outcomes. A mixed methods design was employed, …
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Protest from below: Activists experience of the student protest Dublin, 2010
… as a way of advancing our knowledge of how activists experience a protest event and protest policing. The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) protest in 2010, against the raising of registration fees and the cutting of the maintenance grant ended in violence, and clashes between students and …
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Taking the First Steps: Human Rights Activists in the Castros' Cuba
… rights advocacy movements, organizations, and activists been successful in influencing change in the Cuban government’s respect for and protection of human rights?|This thesis proposes that while full protection of human rights for all in the Castros’ Cuba was and is not yet a reality, the work …
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Beyond the Headlines: Exploring Media Portrayal of Youth Climate Change Activists
… Recently, we have seen youth stand up and become activists for climate. This qualitative study was conducted on media representations of youth climate change activists because of its usefulness for exploring the complexity of youth voices, and how they are ignored. This research focuses closely on …
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Religion, violence & the state : a dialogical encounter between activists and scholars
… places the voices of three leading religious activists in juxtaposition to comtemporary scholarship on relition and violence in the Western acady. It highlights a neglected issued in that body of scholarship, namely the link between systemic violence and state terror. I raise three interratled …
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The missing designers : a history of activists designing for racial justice
… environment. As critics of the status quo, Black activists did more than just fight and dismantle. They designed and created alternatives to the systems that aimed to diminish them. Two case studies offer a closer look at design interventions for self-determination by Black communities in the late …
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Defending Desire: Resident Activists in New Orleans‟ Desire Housing Project, 1956-1980
<p> <p>The Desire Housing Project opened in 1956 as a segregated public housing development in New Orleans‟ Upper Ninth Ward. The Desire neighborhood, one of the few neighborhoods in the city where black homeownership had been encouraged, was transformed by the project. Hundreds of former Desire …
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Performance of activism: examining the use of Saya by Afrobolivian social activists
… their social movement efforts, Afrobolivian activists are using the Saya as a vehicle for outreach. This thesis will argue that as a result of the Saya’s use in this way by Afrobolivian activists, the Saya has transformed from what was once only perceived as a customary aspect of Afrobolivian …
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Preaching Marxism? The Politics and Ethics of Leftist Muslim Activists in Java
… small but growing group of Marxist Muslim youth activists on the Indonesian island of Java and explores the relationship between Islam and Marxism in their activism. The activists are part of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU; The Awakening of Religious Scholars), a traditionalist Sufi organisation, which was …
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Exploring feminist notions of peacebuilding: experiences of women activists in Northern Uganda
This qualitative study was undertaken in Northern Uganda, specifically in the districts of Gulu, Lira, and Kitgum. The researcher spent a total of six months collecting field data (over a period of 2 years) from key members of community-based peacebuilding groups as well as from the groups' …
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