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Showing 1 to 20 of 596 for “"grassroots"”.
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Message From The Grassroots: Exploring Black liberation in grassroots economic practice and planning in the Americas
… urban challenges. It is also an exploration of grassroots people-centered efforts, both operating within the spatial-political confines of empire and those revolutionary programs outside of its physical bounds. And finally, it is a reflection on the possible purposes and roles of the …
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Policing grassroots China: revolution and order maintenance
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Grassroots mapping : tools for participatory and activist cartography
… of participants, have ensured wide adoption of Grassroots Mapping practices.
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East of the Tracks: Grassroots Environmentalism in South Mississippi
… despite the emergence of several community based grassroots environmental groups throughout Mississippi in recent years. From Columbia, to Crystal Springs, to Hattiesburg, a coalition of environmental groups is forming with Hattiesburg at the center of the emergent movement. The success and …
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Grassroots Organizations Using Social Media as a Lobbying Technique
<p>Grassroots organizations provide a way for communities to interact and form around topics through grassroots lobbying and direct lobbying. As the 21st Century is referred to as the Digital Age, many grassroots organizations have found it necessary to expand on their lobbying techniques. Rather …
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Enabling grassroots innovation by youth in Cape Town's townships
Grassroots innovation has been recognized as a valuable means to empower local communities to address developmental issues. Enabling youth in townships to solve local problems is of particular interest in South Africa due to the poor socioeconomic conditions in these areas. These conditions include …
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Play for change : educational game design for grassroots organizing
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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We are the state! Grassroots participation in Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution
This dissertation focuses on the role of grassroots political participation in processes of state formation and in establishing democracy in Venezuela. It examines the race, class, and gender experiences of ordinary citizenry through their participation in politics, including the meanings they …
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Ecologies of digital mapping: Open source communities and grassroots maps
… disaster management, environmental justice, and grassroots activism. My interest in these communities stems from their drive to integrate considerations of the lifeworld, in the parlance of Jürgen Habermas, into systems of digital mapping to create and maintain actionable data archives. The …
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The echoes of grassroots media practices in Greece: a sociological approach
This thesis probes into grassroots media projects by addressing them in a broad theoretical framework that evaluates such projects in macro terms, along the interplay between 'public sphere' and 'civil society', as well as in micro terms, across the 'lived experience' of their practice, on the …
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The radical south: Grassroots activism, ethnicity, and literary form, 1960-1980
… argue that new political aesthetics emerged from grassroots activism and set in motion ethnic and racial cultural expressions that embraced multiple, even conflicting, identities. As much as this art was placed within a local context, its political and artistic aesthetics were also inspired by …
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From grassroots to global: unintended consequences of a Bolivian quinoa economy
<p>This thesis offers a counterargument to the claims that Bolivian peasant farmers are acting in contradiction with their political support of food sovereignty by participating in a global quinoa economy. This research gives agency to the farmers by reframing the Bolivian quinoa story to show how …
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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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The implications of trade union merger: a view from the grassroots
… this merger between NUPE, NALGO and COHSE on the grassroots activists of the union. Much valuable industrial relations research exists on the causes and consequences of trade union mergers at the macro-level of the movement and at the meso-level of the individual union. The thesis complements and …
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Permaculture as farming practice and international grassroots network: a multidisciplinary study
… producers and consumers, and from scientists and grassroots networks. Grassroots networks and movements are increasingly regarded as agents of change, with a critical role to play in agroecological transition as well as broader socio-environmental transformation. Permaculture is one such movement, …
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Changed climate : networking, professionalization, and grassroots organizing in U.S. environmental organizations
… Climate: Networking, Professionalization, and Grassroots Organizing in U.S Environmental Organizations," explores the efforts of four established U.S. environmental NGOs to change their organizational cultures and routine practices to develop grassroots activism for climate change advocacy. I …
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Grassroots Governance: Domestic Violence and Criminal Justice Partnerships in an Immigrant City
My dissertation is a critical ethnography of grassroots feminist agencies and immigrant organizations involved in the governance of gender violence in Toronto, Ontario. Along with examining the agencies operating on the outskirts of the law, I also observe the organizations that contract directly …
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