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Undeterred: How Collective Nonviolent Identity Enables Persistence Amidst Surveillance and Infiltration among New York City Direct Action Activists

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Scholars have debated whether state repression demobilizes or radicalizes social movements, but the conditions under which nonviolent direct action groups maintain confrontational tactics despite surveillance, particularly in the post-COINTELPRO era ...
Charlotte Thomas-Hébert
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Gandhi and the World of the Hebrew Bible: The Case of Daniel as Satyagrahi

Religions, 2022
Among the biblical characters used as examples in developing and explaining satyagraha, Daniel is the most important after Jesus. In Gandhi’s speeches and writings from 1909 to 1946, Daniel served as the ideal satyagrahi both in South Africa and in India.
Ed Noort
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Deterrence Through Resilience and Civil Preparedness: The Comprehensive and Militarised Models of Civil Defence

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As hybrid threats blur the line between war and peace and challenge conventional deterrence logics, states increasingly turn to concepts of resilience, civil preparedness and whole‐of‐society as elements of their security strategies. This raises the question of how civilian agency can be viewed as an element of deterrence and what the ...
Agata Mazurkiewicz, Heljä Ossa
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Romare Bearden’s "Mauritius" (1969): Wars, Nations, and Everything Else

Panorama, 2018
Considering the era of its making—the decade of the Vietnam War and resistance to it in many national capitals, anti-government protests across the globe, and both nonviolent and armed uprisings against institutional discrimination and social inequity ...
Jacqueline Francis
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Leo Tolstoy’s Anti-Colonial Views and Their Influence on Liberation Movements in Africa [PDF]

Ученые записки Института Африки Российской академии наук
Leo Tolstoy is one of the few Russian thinkers of the pre-Soviet era whose views influenced leaders of liberation movements in Africa. Soviet researchers explored his anti-colonial views and their perception in the African continent.
Gorelik Boris Moiseevich
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Unraveling authoritarian reform decision‐making: A metacognitive–subcognitive model

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Recent research indicates that state reforms in East and Southeast Asia have been predominantly top‐down and authoritarian‐led. However, this significant observation implicitly relies on important assumptions about authoritarian decision‐making behavior and psychology that remains understudied.
Eugene Yu Ji
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Volunteering While Researching Conflict and Violence: Reflections on Listening, Solidarity, and Decoloniality in Myanmar's Borderlands

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars working on conflict and violence often engage with local organisations, yet the methodological and ethical implications of volunteering‐while‐researching are rarely discussed in writing. This article contributes to debates on decolonizing research by conceptualising volunteering‐while‐researching as a practice that—while imbued with ...
Shona Loong
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From Inaction to Action: The Cognitive Liberation of Amazon Workers in North Carolina

British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the mechanism by which workers move from inaction to collective action, focusing on cognitive liberation, the awareness that change is possible, as it unfolded among workers at an Amazon warehouse in North Carolina who contributed to the emergence of an independent, worker‐led union during a period of renewed growth in organising ...
Carla Lima Aranzaes, Destiny Blackwell
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Mass Mobilising for Climate Action: A Member‐Driven Innovation Process in a Nongovernmental Organisation

Creativity and Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Environmental organisations (EOs) are not‐for‐profit organisations that contribute to responsible innovation (RI) efforts to mitigate the climate crisis as central catalysts in society. While the RI discourse in management research acknowledges that collaboration between a broad variety of actors is necessary to foster climate action, so far ...
Ida Raunkjær, Patricia Wolf, Szabolcs Dezso Fabian   +2 more
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Negotiating Responsibility: Professionals' Perspectives on Separated Parents' Protective Duties in the Swedish Context

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores how social workers perceive and enact informal protective arrangements in the context of Swedish child protection. Drawing on group interviews with practitioners, the findings reveal that social workers underline parents' legal obligation and duty to protect their children, which means that the safe parent is expected to ...
Emma Rindeskog, Lupita Svensson
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