The Right Thing, The Smart Thing: A Call for Mass Action [PDF]
, 1993 [Excerpt] I was an organizer for 14 years. I never met with an organizing committee or spoke at a mass meeting when I didn t remind workers of something we all understand intuitively: There is one way you get what you need and want in this world—power ...
Acuff, Stewart
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Opposing consensus science through scholarly practices: The role of claims maintenance
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines how three US‐based communities who oppose consensus science produce and disseminate scholarly‐like artifacts: pro‐life activists, Young Earth Creationists, and Anthropogenic Climate Crisis skeptics. Prior research shows that industry‐ or church‐backed advocacy campaigns often generate claims supported by these communities ...
Irene V. Pasquetto +3 more
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Organizing at the Margins: The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States [PDF]
, 2009 [Excerpt] What might the striking convergence in the trajectories of the South Korean and U.S. labor movements mean for the dynamics of change taking place for labor on a global scale?
Chun, Jennifer Jihye
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The transnationality of European nationalist movements [PDF]
, 2011 This article investigates the rationale behind transnational mobilisations of neo-Nazi and fascist social movements. It argues that pan-Europeanism is a central tenet, not a counter-principle, of extreme nationalist thought.
Schlembach, Raphael
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Delineating gender/sex‐related studies through bibliometric analysis
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract The multidisciplinary and socially grounded nature of Women's/Gender/Feminist Studies poses unique challenges for bibliometric analysis, as it extends beyond conventional disciplinary boundaries. This paper makes three key contributions: (1) We propose a novel retrieval method for constructing a corpus of scholarly documents in research areas ...
Natsumi S. Shokida +2 more
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De l’utilisation de Facebook à des fins de mobilisation par le groupe Sauvons Calais
Communication, 2018 This article stems from a research project on vigilantism that looks at Sauvons Calais, an extreme right-wing group determined to fight against “illegal” immigration in France.
Matthijs Gardenier, Aymeric Monie
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Greed and grievance: the role of economic agendas in the conflict in Solomon Islands [PDF]
, 2015 This article investigates the applicability of the influential economics of civil war literature to the case of the conflict which occurred in Solomon Islands between 1998 and 2003.
Allen, Matthew
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Clandestinity and militant culture in Latin America, 1960s to the early 1980s: epistemological and historical reflections and an agenda for research [PDF]
, 2023 Lucía Rayas
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Activism as education in and through the youth climate justice movement
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Young people worldwide are increasingly participating in a global movement for climate justice, yet to date, little research has examined how youth climate justice activists conceive of and experience activism as education. The present study used in‐depth, semi‐structured interviews with 16 US climate justice activists (aged 15–17) to address ...
Carlie D. Trott
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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
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