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Leave Your Guns at Home: The Constitutionality of a Prohibition on Carrying Firearms at Political Demonstrations [PDF]
, 2018 Armed protest has long been a tool of American political groups. Neo-Nazis, socialists, fascists, antifascists, the Black Panthers, neo-Confederates, and others have all taken up arms not necessarily to do violence, but to do politics.
Morgan, Luke
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Neighborhood social environments and mental health among youth and adults in public housing
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Neighborhoods influence health in part through social processes. However, little is known about how multiple neighborhood social processes co‐occur, or about within (vs. between) neighborhood variation in social processes and health. This study asked how residents of a large public housing development describe their neighborhood and used ...
Jane Leer +3 more
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 2017 Abstract. “Twitter protests” and “Facebook revolutions” imbue the coverage of contentious politics in news media and academic outlets alike. As long as such protests are not compared to conventional mobilized events it is hard to ascertain the supposed differences between connective and collective action.
van Stekelenburg, Jacquelien +1 more
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An Immigrant, Not a Worker: Depiction of the 2006 ‘Day without an Immigrant’ Protests in Printed Media of the United States [PDF]
, 2011 writing about the Day Without an Immigrant (DWI) Protests within the year of the 2006 protests are analyzed in order to understand narratives on labor activism of documented and undocumented immigrants in the United States.
Ruthschild, Teal
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Robodebt scheme issued thousand‐dollar debts to an estimated half a million people who had received social security. The debts were largely inaccurate and illegal, with the aim of improving the federal government's budget. The 2023 Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme found that the stigmatising political and public language about ...
Ella Kruger, Phillipa Evans
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Explaining the fuel protests [PDF]
, 2003 We describe and analyse the fuel protests in the UK in September and November 2000. We draw on theories of social movements to explain the success of the first of these protests and the failure of the second.
Doherty, BJA +3 more
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Revista Mundos do Trabalho, 2021 Book review: ANDUJAR, Andrea & BOHOSLAVSKY, Ernesto (ed.). Todos estos años de gente: historia social, protesta y política en América Latina. Los Polvorines: Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, 2020.
Luiz Felipe Cezar Mundim
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Protest, counter-protest and organizational diversification of protest groups [PDF]
Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2019 Whereas protests have been discussed predominantly in terms of collective action issues, achieving coordination does not always guarantee success. Protest groups must also back their demands with sufficient threats. Some assert that threats are enhanced by the mobilization of more resources.
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