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The unlikely climate activist

open access: yes, 2013
In his book, Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist, the environmentalist Bill McKibben tells two stories: "Here’s a story of two lives lived in response to a crazy time – a time when the planet began to come apart, a time when bee ...
Rimmer, Matthew
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Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Illuminating a dialectical transformative activist stance in education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This is a commentary on Anna Stetsenko's notion of collaborative purposeful transformation of the world with an emphasis on a transformative activist stance to human ...
Stephen M. Ritchie, Ritchie, Stephen M.
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Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
wiley   +1 more source

Affective dimensions in the information behavior of forcibly displaced people: A literature review. An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This review analyzed 241 scholarly articles published between 2010 and 2025 in information science venues to examine how affect shapes refugees' information behavior during forced migration and to identify additional contextual factors. It identifies seven affective dimensions: anxiety, shame and stigma, grief and loss, frustration, (mis)trust,
Maja Krtalić, Lilach Alon
wiley   +1 more source

Framing National Education in Hong Kong: A frame analysis of power dynamics in stakeholders' competing narratives

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how national education in Hong Kong functions as a contested arena in which state and non‐state actors struggle over the meaning of citizenship, identity and schooling. Using inductive frame analysis of 319 news articles (2020–2025) from five Chinese‐ and English‐language outlets, it identifies diagnostic, prognostic and ...
Jason Cong Lin
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Sustainability Education: A Community-Based Experience

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Educação em Ciências, 2014
Sustainability education policies are widely focused on modern technologies, green profits, and development projects in many Indigenous communities.
Ranjan Datta   +5 more
doaj  

New protagonists: Anti-racism and protest politics among the youth of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas

open access: yesAppartenances & Altérités
During ethnographic inquiries carried out between 2012 and 2018 in several favelas in the city of Rio de Janeiro, we were able to witness first-hand the emergence of these new types of political action within the favelas.
David Amalric, Joana Sisternas Tusell
doaj   +1 more source

Forests, Tribals and the Voice of Dissent: The Story of a Social Actor

open access: yesSpace and Culture, India, 2013
This is a biography of an activist who has been working in the interiors of Madhya Pradesh with the indigenous people. He has been living amongst the tribal communities and has contributed significantly in the people’s struggle for resource rights.
Namami Sharma
doaj   +1 more source

Activist skills, knowledge, and values: constructions of young people’s competency in a youth activist group

open access: yes
In recent years, there has been raised attention to the role of youth activism in society, particularly in how young people have led social movements in climate justice, racial justice, and against gun violence (Kirshner et al., 2020; Moore et al., 2021).
Weiner, Laura
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