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Global-net for Global Movements? A Network of Networks for a Movement of Movements
Journal of Public Policy, 2005This article focuses on the use of Computer-Mediated Communication by the movement for global justice, with special attention to the organisations involved in the movement and its activists. We examined data collected during two supranational protest events: the anti-G8 protest in Genoa in July 2001 and the European Social Forum (ESF) in Florence in ...
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Appreciating the Movement of the Movements
Development in Practice, 2006This review essay surveys the theoretical insights emerging from within the Global Justice and Solidarity Movement, also known as the Anti-Globalisation Movement, or the Movement of the Movements, and also reviews the literature focused on this phenomenon by those closely involved, as well as other observers.
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1997
Protagonists active in the movement argue that it was because of infant welfare that infant mortality went down. Historians of infant welfare generally adopt this position. In the 75-year history of baby health services in New South Wales, Karen O’Connor asserts that the infant welfare movement ‘played a major role in reducing the enormously high ...
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Protagonists active in the movement argue that it was because of infant welfare that infant mortality went down. Historians of infant welfare generally adopt this position. In the 75-year history of baby health services in New South Wales, Karen O’Connor asserts that the infant welfare movement ‘played a major role in reducing the enormously high ...
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When a Movement Is Not a Movement
Nova Religio, 2011This article examines the influence of the Hindu teacher Ramana Maharshi on Neo-Advaita groups in North America. These groups constitute a growing segment of North America’s liberal spirituality subculture and bear witness to the transposability of the Maharshi’s teachings and the portability of his method of self-inquiry into non-Indian cultural ...
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2009
Four elements are common in social science definitions of social movements: a network structure, the use of unconventional means, shared beliefs and solidarity, and the pursuit of some conflictual aims. Once a marginal area in the social sciences, social movement studies grew into a main field of study in sociology and a significant one in other ...
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Four elements are common in social science definitions of social movements: a network structure, the use of unconventional means, shared beliefs and solidarity, and the pursuit of some conflictual aims. Once a marginal area in the social sciences, social movement studies grew into a main field of study in sociology and a significant one in other ...
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Understanding Iran’s Green Movement as a ‘movement of movements’
Sociology of Islam, 2014This paper examines how oppositional groups go about exploiting opportunities to mobilizeen massein settings that are less than auspicious. The Green Movement is used here as a case study, the aim of which is to show that understanding how a people go about mobilizing requires, first and foremost, examining the core beliefs that motivate them toseize ...
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2012
This chapter begins with an account of Natalya Estemirova, a Russian human rights organization Memorialand former history teacher who was abducted and murdered in Chechnya in 2009. It focuses on the international human rights movement that is made up of men and women who gather information on rights abuses, lawyers and others who advocate for the ...
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This chapter begins with an account of Natalya Estemirova, a Russian human rights organization Memorialand former history teacher who was abducted and murdered in Chechnya in 2009. It focuses on the international human rights movement that is made up of men and women who gather information on rights abuses, lawyers and others who advocate for the ...
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2020
Taking Bruno Latour's book Facing Gaia (2017) as a major frame of reference, this chapter will discuss how in the formation of new assemblages between humans and non-humans, art and cultural practices are not a tool but an existent that, as other existents, performs in its own right. Five examples from the Global South of grassroot resistance movements’
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Taking Bruno Latour's book Facing Gaia (2017) as a major frame of reference, this chapter will discuss how in the formation of new assemblages between humans and non-humans, art and cultural practices are not a tool but an existent that, as other existents, performs in its own right. Five examples from the Global South of grassroot resistance movements’
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1986
(a) Support in Plants 1. Unicellular plants (algae and fungi) have: (i) firm cell walls of cellulose (algae) or fungal cellulose and chitin in fungi; (ii) cell turgor, due to osmotic pressure on cell walls, which gives rigidity and support (see Fig. 6.3 and section 6.1(f)). 2.
O. F. G. Kilgour, P. D. Riley
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(a) Support in Plants 1. Unicellular plants (algae and fungi) have: (i) firm cell walls of cellulose (algae) or fungal cellulose and chitin in fungi; (ii) cell turgor, due to osmotic pressure on cell walls, which gives rigidity and support (see Fig. 6.3 and section 6.1(f)). 2.
O. F. G. Kilgour, P. D. Riley
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Peripheral Movement, Induced Movement, and Aftereffects from Induced Movement
Perception, 1981Substantial rotatory induced movement and aftereffects associated with induced movement were observed in a large static patterned disc bounded at its periphery by a rotating patterned annulus. The area of the annulus was less than one tenth that of the disc, so its peripheral location seemed to be important in eliciting these phenomena.
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