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Connecting Corporate and Consumer Social Responsibility Through Social Media Activism

Social Media + Society, 2018
To highlight aspects of activism obscured by a focus on legitimacy and ideology, this article argues that shifting focus from legitimacy and ideology to identity, problem-solving and dialogue is needed to understand emerging forms of social media native ...
Constance E. Kampf
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All Roads Lead to the New Food Activism

Journal 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
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‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
wiley   +1 more source

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

BAR: 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, André Luiz Maranhão de Souza-Leão   +1 more
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The eventization of leisure and the strange death of alternative Leeds [PDF]

, 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, Beer U., Beer U., Beverley Spracklen, Bittner R., Blackshaw T., Bramham P., Carr S., Castells M., Clarke J., Dangerfield G., Debord G., Deem R., Graham S., Karl Spracklen, Klein N., Lefebvre H., Long J., Minton A., Parker S., Parker S., Paton K., Ravenscroft N., Roberts K., Rojek C., Scott A., Smigel E., Veblen T., Weber M., Wetterer A.   +29 more
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
wiley   +1 more source

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

, 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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Spaces and scales of African student activism: Senegalese and Zimbabwean university students at the intersection of campus, nation and globe [PDF]

, 2008
African university students have long engaged in political activism, responding to changing political, social and economic circumstances through protest that has at times exerted considerable influence on the national stage.
Ansell, N, Zeilig, L
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Activism in the arts: Co‐researching cultural inequalities with young people during the COVID‐19 pandemic

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the growing influence of young people's activism in UK museums and its educational implications. It draws on a five‐year collaborative programme (2019–2023) with young people of colour (16–28) in a university museum setting, focusing on a Young Collective established to address cultural inequalities.
Sadia Habib
wiley   +1 more source

Internet, Activism and Politics. The Repertoires and Rhetoric of Estonian Internet Activists

Studies of Transition States and Societies, 2016
The literature on political participation and activism has gained from introducing a new term: ‘sub- activism’, which is used to describe individual, mostly internet-mediated activism of everyday choices.
Peeter Vihma
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