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Salva la Iglesia: A Congregation\u27s Fight for Community [PDF]
, 2013 The purpose of this study is to examine community response to crisis and the impact intercultural interactions have on the outcome of ethnic and religious group conflict.
Schwarz, Maria E
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Silent Data, Active Patients [PDF]
, 2020 With the wake of digital welfare, governments advocate that patients play an active role in managing their own illnesses. This active role is sustained by access to and use of health data provided by health care authorities through new digital technologies.
Laursen, Cæcilie Sloth; id_orcid 0000-0001-7102-7268 +1 more
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
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Grassroots resource mobilization through counter-data action
Big Data & Society, 2018 In this paper, we document the counter-data action and data activism of a grassroots affordable housing advocacy group in Atlanta. Our observation and insight into these data activities and strategies are achieved through ethnographic and engaged ...
Amanda Meng, Carl DiSalvo
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Corporate governance and financial performance: an empirical analysis of selected multinational firms in Nigeria [PDF]
Problems and Perspectives in Management, 2019 This study focused on corporate governance and performance of selected Nigerian multinational firms from 2012 to 2016. Specifically, the study focused on the effect of board size, activism and committee activism on return on asset and firm growth rate ...
Gideon Tayo Akinleye +2 more
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Brands Take a Stand for Good: The Effect of Brand Activism on Social Media Engagement [PDF]
, 2019 Brands are entering an era where brand activism and corporate social responsibility strategies are holding a large influence on consumer purchase decision making, rather than the traditional brand product marketing.
Gray, Alexis A
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From the voice of a ‘Socratic Gadfly’: a call for more academic activism in the researching of disability in postsecondary education [PDF]
, 2017 In this article I use the lens of voices and silences to frame my review of research in the field of disability and postsecondary education. I argue that we need to view research in this field as a necessarily political act that seeks to turn voices of ...
Seale, Jane K
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi +6 more
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Campaigning and advertising: an evaluation of the components of constituency activism at recent British General Elections [PDF]
, 1998 It is becoming increasingly accepted among analysts of British voting behaviour that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, local campaigning matters.
Johnston, R.J., Pattie, C.J.
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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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