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Responses to Apocalypse: Early Christianity and Extinction Rebellion [PDF]
Religions, 2020 The Extinction Rebellion (XR) movement has grown rapidly in the past two years. In popular media, XR has sometimes been described using religious terminology.
Cullan Joyce
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Viewpoint: Doctors and Extinction Rebellion. [PDF]
Br J Gen Pract, 2019 Three of us retired GPs were arrested at the Extinction Rebellion demonstration in Edinburgh in April. We had the preliminary hearing in the Magistrate’s Court and pleaded not guilty in order to have the opportunity to explain in court why we believe that it is part of a doctor’s responsibility to speak out about the climate crisis.
Morrison L.
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Viewpoint: Extinction Rebellion: radical or rational? [PDF]
Br J Gen Pract, 2019 The UK government has declared a climate change emergency.1 Respected fellow GPs have been arrested on actions with Extinction Rebellion. Initially I was perplexed by this and wondered how they came to take this course of action. Although I have friends who have tried to fly less and become vegan for environmental purposes, I had never really given ...
Shah D.
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Crisis, deliberation, and Extinction Rebellion
Critical Studies on Security, 2020 The environment is one of the political issue areas identified earliest in the post-Cold War context as susceptible to securitisation (see Deudney 1990), defined as a way of treating an issue that ...
James Heydon, Mike Slaven
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An open letter to Extinction Rebellion
Journal of Global Faultlines, 2019 This letter was collaboratively written with dozens of aligned groups. As the weeks of action called by Extinction Rebellion were coming to an end, our groups came together to reflect on the narrative, strategies, tactics and demands of a reinvigorated ...
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Frontiers in Communication, 2023 This study examines how the climate action group Extinction Rebellion represents scientific knowledge in the public presentations used to recruit new members.
Aaron Thierry
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Social bots spoil activist sentiment without eroding engagement [PDF]
Scientific ReportsSocial bots are highly active on social media platforms, significantly affecting online discourse. We analyzed the dynamic nature of bot engagement related to Extinction Rebellion climate change protests in 2019.
Linda Li +2 more
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Fashion Activism of Extinction Rebellion and Fashion Act Now
Fashion TheoryThis article examines the fashion activism of Extinction Rebellion (XR) through a comparative analysis of literature, media, and interviews with activists. We argue that their decentralized organizational structure allows the individual local chapters and action groups to function and organize independently, quickly, and more efficiently than many ...
Katrina Sark
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Extinction Rebellion’s disobedient environmental citizenism
Environmental PoliticsThis is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record ; We examine the public protest of Extinction Rebellion (XR) in the UK as a specific political practice. We do so through our observation of the plea hearings of activists charged with public order offences during the April 2019 London ‘Rebellion’, focusing on
Steven Cammiss +2 more
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‘Biodiversity’ in Extinction Rebellion’s words: an ecostylistic examination of a beneficial text
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesThis article refers to the ecological rhetorical terms ‘marker word’ and ‘environet’ and to the ecolinguistic terms ‘beneficial discourse’ and ‘ecosophy’, and applies the stylistic theories of foregrounding, point of view, and metaphor to explore two ...
Daniela Francesca Virdis
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