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Discover Global SocietyWhat drives a nonviolent movement to adopt violent strategies? The paper examines this question through a Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of the Saffron Revolution in Myanmar and the movement led by Hefazat-e-Islam (HI) in Bangladesh.
Md. Al-Amin +2 more
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Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper introduces transboundary spanning as a novel concept for social movement analysis. Using Extinction Rebellion (XR) in the United States as a case study, we examine the relational dynamics of social movement boundary spanning: processes wherein actors and organizations engage across symbolic boundaries.
Tobias Müller, Peter Gardner
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Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article expands the sociological scholarship on the development of academic programs in intellectual fields tied to social movements. After briefly reviewing this literature, which has especially focused on fields like ethnic studies and women's studies, it examines the development of the smaller field of peace and conflict studies.
Elise Wolff
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A CHRISTIAN NATURALISM: DEVELOPING THE THINKING OF GORDON KAUFMAN
Zygon, 2013 This essay develops a theological naturalism using Gordon Kaufman's nonpersonal idea of God as serendipitous creativity in contrast to the personal metaphorical theology of Sallie McFague.
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Reducing Burnout and Disengagement: A Review of the Strategies of Social Change Organizations
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The literature on burnout and persistence for activists or other social change actors has diversified from an explanation of causes to the study of how to address the challenges of disengagement. This review of the literature provides an analysis of organizational strategies for reducing burnout and disengagement.
David J. Hess
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Moral Tolerance: The Ethics of Social Punishment in Cases of Moral Disagreement
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In many practical contemporary contexts, people need to make correct ethical judgements about how to respond to perceived wrongdoing—in particular, whether to punish it or tolerate it. This judgement can be challenging when the wrongdoer does not accept the allegation of wrongdoing at the level of moral principle, holding that the type of ...
Hugh Breakey, Graham Wood
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Colour revolutions, nonviolence and social movements: Otpor in Serbia
Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2014 This article links a theoretical approach focused on the political theory of nonviolent action with an empirical analysis of the events that have occurred during the colour revolutions.
Angélica Rodríguez Rodríguez +1 more
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Pacifist rejoinders to the ‘Hitler question’
European Journal of International SecurityThis article tackles head-on a question that is often thought to defeat pacifism: ‘How then would you react against a Nazi invasion?’ That multiple wars are still recurrently justified as necessary to confront yet another ‘Hitler’ makes tackling this ...
Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
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Affective regimes and ontological security: When empathy threatens the state
Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 5, October 2026.Abstract The ontological security of states may be threatened by the politics of empathy. Empathy—as a contested affective‐political field—has a capacity to both consolidate and unravel dominant understandings of identity, security, political subjectivity, and self‐other relations.
Naomi Head
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European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT Faith‐based organisations (FBOs) are recognised by the development community as key organisations and partners in development cooperation. Yet commitments to secularism underlying international development cooperation in policy and practice have—to a certain extent—restricted theoretical and empirical study of the involvement and contribution ...
Tessa DeLaquil +3 more
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