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Between soft power and suspicion: Chinese international students as diasporic actors in U.S.‐China geopolitical tensions

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the under‐theorized political role and identity of Chinese international students, who emerge as significant actors caught between U.S. soft power ambitions and rising geopolitical suspicion. Amid escalating U.S.‐China tensions, these students are forced to confront environments shaped by competing geopolitical discourses ...
Jing Yu
wiley   +1 more source

The psychology of protest: Activism involvement and burnout

, 2023
Since January 2021, the SPU community has protested policies that result in employment discrimination for the LGBTQIA+ community. We tested a model of indirect effects, predicting protest-related burnout directly from hours per week of protest activity ...
Gaulden, Keyera, Bikos, Lynette, Shelby, Tara   +2 more
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“They say we're a rights‐respecting school but nobody knows what that really means”: Children's rights implementation in a Scottish secondary school

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Education has been an enduring feature of international human rights law since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 and is the only human right that is compulsory for children. Appearing in all major human rights treaties, including the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, education is multidimensional and a multiplier of ...
Amy Hanna
wiley   +1 more source

POLES’ PROTEST BEHAVIOUR IN 1989-2009

, 2013
The study tackles the problem of Poles’ protest activity after the fall of communism. It engages in empirically testing whether the protest mobilization in Poland, comparatively low in the initial stage of democratic transformation, had strengthened ...
Sekuła, Paulina
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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
wiley   +1 more source

Russian Protest Moods and Actions

Социологическая наука и социальная практика, 2017
Based on Russia-wide surveys conducted by the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISRAS) in monitoring regime, the article considers the probability of formation “revolutionary situation” in modern Russia and the growth of mass ...
Yuriy V. Latov
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Addressing racialised awarding gap in higher education: Insights from personal tutors

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Situated within a wider cross‐institutional research project, this article provides an in‐depth case study of one higher education (HE) institution, focusing on how personal tutors make sense of racialised degree awarding disparities for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, how they perceive their responsibilities, the challenges and ...
Benjamin Ajibade, Rick Hayman, Angela Hibbs, Josephine Gabi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Outcomes of Social Movements and Protest Activities

, 2013
Scholarship has left the study of the consequences of social movements in the background for a long time, focusing instead on movement emergence, characteristics, and dynamics. Since the mid-1970s, however, scholars have paid an increasing interest in how social movements and protest activities may produce change at various levels.
Giugni, Marco, BOSI, Lorenzo, Uba, Katrin   +2 more
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Choreographies of Protest Performance as Recruitment to Activism

Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2020
This article seeks to understand why some bystanders to protest transcended to become actors in protests during the re-emergence of wide-spread student activism in an institution of higher education in South Africa during 2015. For this purpose, a performance ethnography is employed in the observation and analysis of protest performances.
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Antiwar protest in post-9.11 Japan, 2001-2004 [PDF]

, 2008
This thesis used Asahi newspaper data for a protest event analysis of antiwar protest in post-9.11 Japan. Although the post-9.11 conflicts were wars by other COWltries in faraway places, the global anti-Iraq War campaign triggered substantial protest ...
Hamajima, Yuki
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