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‘Let Me Hear You Depoliticise My Rhyme’: Queer Feminist Cultural Activisms and Disruptions of Conventional Protest [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Many, feminist identified and not, commentators have criticised contemporary feminism as lacking a strong public presence. In his summary of the British women's movement, Paul Byrne asserts that in the contemporary British landscape, 'the autonomous ...
Downes, Julia
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The eventization of leisure and the strange death of alternative Leeds [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The communicative potential of city spaces as leisure spaces is a central assumption of political activism and the creation of alternative, counter-cultural and subcultural scenes. However, such potential for city spaces is limited by the gentrification,
Anna Richter   +29 more
core   +1 more source

Exploring youth activism on climate change: dutiful, disruptive, and dangerous dissent

open access: yes, 2018
The policies and decisions made today will influence climate and sustainability outcomes for the remainder of this century and beyond, and youth today have a large stake in this future.
K. O’Brien   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Activism as a long durée journey: Teachers against the Chilean neoliberal education model

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper, I use the idea of purposes of education, particularly subjectification, and the concept of love to explore long‐term teacher activism in Chile. ‘Long‐term activism’ is used to describe an ongoing struggle rather than activism confined to specific moments.
Carla Tapia‐Parada
wiley   +1 more source

All Roads Lead to the New Food Activism

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2019
First paragraph: The New Food Activism: Opposition, Cooperation, and Collective Action reminds us that understanding food activism in the world of alternative facts and post-truth politics requires breaking off with com­monly established norms ...
Mustafa Hasanov
doaj   +1 more source

“The purpose of activism is to educate”: Young people's climate activism as and for education in the youth strike movement in England

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract By skipping school for their cause, young climate strikers repeatedly demonstrated their priorities in 2019 and 2020. They regularly chose to sacrifice a day of their formal education in favour of collective action. This study asks what we can learn from the reflections of former youth strikers.
Loz J. Hennessy
wiley   +1 more source

Fight for Respect! Exploring Digital Activism among Cosplayers through Consumer Resistance Based on Foucauldian Theory

open access: yesBAR: Brazilian Administration Review
Objective: drawing from digital consumer activism and the Foucauldian concept of resistance, the aim of this research is to analyze how cosplayers’ digital activism governs their online interactions.
Bruno Melo Moura   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Activism and Community Medicine [PDF]

open access: yes, 1971
Dr. Hughes traces the growth of student activism and its implications for medicine, especially in relation to the development of the specialty of community ...
Hughes, Edward F. X.
core   +1 more source

CEO Sociopolitical Activism: A Stakeholder Alignment Model

open access: yes, 2019
Conventional wisdom holds that CEOs should avoid wading into society’s debates. Yet more and more CEOs are ignoring this dictum, taking public stances on socially contentious issues.
D. Hambrick, Adam J. Wowak
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The absent presence of disability in British higher education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Rates of disability disclosure are steadily increasing in British higher education (HE), with 18% of the student population having a known disability in 2023/24. It might be assumed that progress is being made with increased representation, rights and support for disabled students.
G. Koutsouris   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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