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Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
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Scholar-activism as an object of study in a diverse literature: preconditions, forms, and implications

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Scholar-activism—academic scholars engaging in some form of activism—has recently become a prominent phenomenon as we witness calls for scholars to engage in political, social, and environmental causes that go beyond their traditional academic duties. An
Farzana Bashiri, Eugenia Perez Vico, Anders Hylmö   +2 more
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Actively Seeking Activating Sequences [PDF]

Cell, 2004
I thank R. Brent, I. Cartwright, L. Keegan, Z. Liu, M. Ptashne, and M. Xu for comments. I apologize that the page limit did not permit citation of all relevant work. This work was supported in part by the AHA and the NSF.
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Strengthening Treaty Understanding: The Role of Education in Building Durable Indigenous–State Agreements

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Education is a central mechanism for ensuring that Indigenous–State treaties are understood, supported and endure through political change. Public knowledge shapes the negotiation, acceptance, implementation and long‐term stability of agreements. In Australia, however, treaty knowledge remains fragmented.
Jacob Prehn, Harry Hobbs, Jessica Horton
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From Online to the Streets: Applying the Integrative Model of Activism to Türkiye’s Refugee Issue

SAGE Open
This study tests the Integrative Model of Activism (IMA) developed by Chon and Park (2020) in the context of the refugee issue in Türkiye and extends the theoretical framework by incorporating the subjective norm variable. Türkiye provides a particularly
Hüriye Subaşı, Myoung-Gi Chon
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Broadening the Meanings of Youth Climate Activism: A Review of the Literature from Asia

Youth
It is by now a common trope that youth climate activism has become a ‘global phenomenon’. Yet, it also has significant regional variations. This literature review analyses eighteen academic articles on the topic of youth climate activism in Asia.
Therese Boje Mortensen, Timisha Dadhich
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Fandom meets activism: Rethinking civic and political participation

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2012
Fan activism lies at the intersection of cultural and political participation. The study of fan activism can inform our understanding of contemporary collective action more broadly.
Melissa M. Brough, Sangita Shresthova
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Active Matter [PDF]

The European Physical Journal E, 2013
The study of systems with sustained energy uptake and dissipation at the scale of the constituent particles is an area of central interest in nonequilibrium statistical physics. Identifying such systems as a distinct category -- Active Matter -- unifies our understanding of autonomous collective move- ment in the living world and in some surprising ...
Golestanian, R. ; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3149-4002, Ramaswamy, S.   +1 more
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Nothing to See Here: Researching Non‐Recent Child Abuse in Schools and the Politics of Silence

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While institutions, including schools, have responsibilities to protect children from harm, responses to instances of child sexual abuse have often exhibited avoidance and denial. Recent public inquiries in Australia revealed that some institutions, particularly in the Catholic sector, employed a deliberate strategy of silence which was used ...
John Crowley, Katie Wright, Kate O'Connor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Body as a Tool for Demanding Climate Action and Justice

Social Inclusion
The escalating frequency and intensity of natural disasters underscore the urgency of the climate crisis. Against this backdrop, the global climate movement has surged, amplifying awareness of the climate emergency and pressuring governments and ...
Margaret Tilk, Antje Jacobs, Karin Hannes   +2 more
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