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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"grassroots activism"”.
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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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¡El Barrio Unido Jamás Será Vencido!:” Neighborhood Grassroots Activism and Community Preservation in El Paso, Texas
… occurred. The study examines Mexican American grassroots approaches to preserve the neighborhoods of South El Paso, Texas, in the 1960s and 1970s. It argues that the rapid disappearance of the barrio, experience with federal War on Poverty programs, the Chicano Movement of the 1960-1970s, and …
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Mobilizing and sustaining grassroots activism in the National Organization for Women, 1966-2000 : by Maryann Barakso.
This dissertation examines how the National Organization for Women (NOW) survived the vagaries of both the political environment and its intraorganizational problems and controversies over its thirty-five year history. It considers the role that patrons, the state, mobilizing structures, leaders, …
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John F. Kennedy and the Summer of Peace, 1963
… House strategy and Senate proceedings, but also grassroots activism, thereby drawing attention to domestic imperatives in the enactment of the treaty. Ultimately, this thesis argues, Kennedy’s campaign achieved more than its legislative objective. It made peaceful coexistence with the Soviet …
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From Hate Crimes to Activism: Race, Sexuality, and Gender in the Texas Anti-Violence Movement
… combines the methodologies of political and grassroots social history to explain the unique set of conditions that led to the passage of the James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act in Texas. In 2001, the socially conservative Texas Legislature passed and equally conservative Republican Governor Rick …
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Alliances, assemblages, and affect: Teacher activism within and beyond the union in Saskatchewan
… education (Darder, 2019). Viewing teacher activism broadly, this research explored Saskatchewan teacher activists’ resistance to marketdriven educational reforms through their engagement with both the power of grassroots social movements and the institutional authority of their union. …
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Workers' Attitudes and Bourgeois Hegemony: Investigations of the Political Consciousness of Canadian Workers in the 1980s
… it has a strong service record and has nurtured grassroots activism over an extended period.</p>
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Lost In Transition? Republican Women’s Struggle After Armed Struggle
… indicate that republican women’s post-war activism resides not solely in institutional politics, but across a broad-based terrain of political struggle, including grassroots activism, semi-autonomous organising, electoral politics and community work. The thesis finds that formal politics …
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Mobilizing Online, Marching Offline: Familias Unidas Por Nuestros Desaparecidos’ Strategic Use of Social Media
… strategic use of social media to further their grassroots activism, from the case of the <em>Familias Unidas Por Nuestros Desaparecidos Jalisco </em>(FUNDEJ, Families United For Our Disappeared Jalisco) in Jalisco, Mexico in the 2020s. I argue that, per the notion of civilian women’s agency …
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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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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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“NÃO ÀS REMOÇÕES: PELO DIREITO À MORADIA”: EXAMINING THE FANTASMA(S) DE REMOÇÃO/GHOSTS OF EVICTION AND THE INSURGENCE OF NETWORKED FAVELA HOUSING ACTIVISM IN RIO DE JANEIRO
… contexts which underpin its making. Yet, favela grassroots resistance has also grown in complexity and capacity. This dissertation focuses on the various motivations, processes, and spatio-political dynamics through which grassroots housing resistance have been mobilized in response to the threat …
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The Dam Fighters: Commons Environmental Rhetoric, Rhetorical Citizenship, and Local Ethos
… project, I examine the ways in which a grassroots environmental organization, the Upper French Broad Defense Association (UFBDA), was able to contribute knowledge and voice concerns regarding a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) proposal between 1961 and 1972. The TVA proposal included a …