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Spaces and scales of African student activism: Senegalese and Zimbabwean university students at the intersection of campus, nation and globe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
African university students have long engaged in political activism, responding to changing political, social and economic circumstances through protest that has at times exerted considerable influence on the national stage.
Ansell, N, Zeilig, L
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Does shareholder activism help or hinder shareholder value enhancement? : empirical evidence from the UK [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Shareholder activism has increasingly become a widespread value enhancement strategy for institutional investors in the UK. However, thus far only one paper has reported a clinical study to analyse its impact on target firms (Becht et al, 2008) in ...
Broadhurst, Timothy
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Millennial’s Political Activism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Political activity is a telling behavior about a generation, influencing how policy makers in the U.S. do their jobs and how budgets are set. A generation without any political activity risks missing out on benefits from activity, while an active ...
Sam Talman, Talman, Sam
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Political marketing of activism in Russia: Causes, peculiarities and results

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences, 2019
Civil and political activism is not a monolithic, “one-size-fits-all” phenomenon. It is rather viewed as nationally unique, segmented political attempts to engage different groups of citizens into a civil movement.
Marina A. Glaser (Kukartseva)
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Foreign experience in researching social and political activity online [PDF]

open access: yesСоціологія, 2023
Over the past decades, depending on the development of information and communication technologies, the understanding of social and political online activity, its meaning, and research methods have been constantly changing. Therefore, the article analyzes
Yuliia Hetman
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Fandom meets activism: Rethinking civic and political participation

open access: yesTransformative Works and Cultures, 2012
Fan activism lies at the intersection of cultural and political participation. The study of fan activism can inform our understanding of contemporary collective action more broadly.
Melissa M. Brough, Sangita Shresthova
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Transnational Modes and Media: The Syrian Press in the Mahjar and Emigrant Activism during World War I

open access: yesMashriq & Mahjar, 2022
This article argues that during World War I, the Syrian and Lebanese periodical press in the American mahjar created new space for transnational political activism.
Stacy Fahrenthold
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Rethinking globalised resistance : feminist activism and critical theorising in international relations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This article argues that a feminist approach to the 'politics of resistance' offers a number of important empirical insights which, in turn, open up lines of theoretical inquiry which critical theorists in IR would do well to explore. Concretely, we draw
Maiguashca, B., Eschle, C.
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Dimensions of democracy and digital political activism on Hopewell Chin’ono and Jacob Ngarivhume Twitter accounts towards the July 31st demonstrations in Zimbabwe

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences, 2022
Using a qualitative research approach, this study provides an inquiry into the nature of democracy and digital political activism discourses on @Hopewell Chin’ono and @Jacob Ngarivhume prior to the 31st July demonstrations.
Payidamoyo Nyoka, Mary Tembo
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Political consumer activism and democratic legitimacy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article discusses consumer activism not as an ethical, but as a political phenomenon. A political concept of consumer activism implies, first, that consumers sometimes express support or opposition to products and services or consumer and business ...
Beckstein, Martin; https://orcid.org/
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