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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"repertoires of contention"”.
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Resistance to School Consolidation in a Rural Appalachian Community
… communities due to out-migration and lack of funding for public schools. When school consolidation occurs, the local school may be closed, or students from other communities may be bused to the school. Community residents, however, do not always agree with the decision to consolidate their …
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Power from the Grassroots : Strategies and Resilience of Cambodian Land and Environmental Activists
This thesis examines the strategies of Cambodian land and environmental activists in navigating repression, building resilience and amplifying civil society voices. It is situated within a context in which Cambodian civil society faces an increasingly repressive political environment, while land …
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The Politics of Protest and State Repression in Authoritarian Regimes
… rulers. Over the past decade, the bulk of the literature has focused on examining the impact of protest movements on regime transition, while lesser attention was paid to explain why protests emerge initially. Social movements literature has documented rich materials on contentious …
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Membership Diversity and Tactical Adaptation within Violent Non-State Organizations
… experiment with and develop a broader repertoire of tactics and targets to achieve their political goals while other groups consistently utilize the same methods across their lifespan. Social movement theory argues that challengers to the state's authority should continually innovate their …
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Community gardening as social action: the Australian community gardening movement and repertoires for change.
There has been a resurgence of community gardening activity in Australia over the past decade. This coincides with increasing concern about food security, urban sustainability, social isolation and the preservation of community space. Community gardening has been adopted by divergent actors, from …
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“Whose Streets? Our Streets!”: Social Memory and Contentious Politics in a Democracy
… that journalists repeatedly declared it the year of the street protest. Despite globalization and mobile technologies, contentious politics largely continue to take shape through the performances, narratives, and materialities of the street. That is, contentious politics take on particular place …