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The false choice between public health and civil liberties
Voices in Bioethics, 2020 Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the role of government in public health has come to the forefront of a national conversation. In the United States, social distancing measures such as mandatory stay-at-home orders and closures of schools and non-
Ava Kamb
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Why Do We Worry about Trace Poisons? [PDF]
, 1996 Dr. Mazur relates how protests by the political left against nuclear tests and by the political right against fluoridation set the stage for Silent Spring to move the public toward being concerned about latent ...
Mazur, Allan
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‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
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Dynamiques et effets des manifestations brésiliennes de 2013 : Le cas de la ville de Vitória
Brésil(s), 2015 This article presents a reflection on the protests of June 2013 in Brazil, based on empirical observations from the city of Vitória, the capital of the state of Espíritu Santo.
Cristiana Losekann
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Just because of 20 cents? For a genealogy of the Brazilian ‘demonstrations cup’
International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2020 In June 2013, widespread popular unrest unexpectedly shook Brazil whilst the FIFA Football Confederations Cup was taking place. Nicknamed as the ‘demonstrations cup’ by protesters, this was one of the greatest uprisings in the history of the country ...
Erick Omena de Melo
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
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Participation of Youth in Protest Actions in Modern Russia as Way of Self-identity
Управленческое консультирование, 2019 This article is about protest sentiments of young generation in Russia and its self- and political identity in the age group between 16–30. The aim of this article is to show the relation of young people to protest actions and their participation in it ...
D. A. Ayusheeva
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Partisan Protesters and Nonpartisan Protests in Brazil
Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2014 In young democracies with weak parties, there is some evidence that partisan identification may shift in response to short-term government performance. The massive protests that erupted in Brazil in June 2013 sharply increased the salience of, and public attention to, poor government performance and took most observers by surprise.
Matthew S. Winters +1 more
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Assessing the Bias in Communication Networks Sampled from Twitter
, 2012 We collect and analyse messages exchanged in Twitter using two of the platform's publicly available APIs (the search and stream specifications). We assess the differences between the two samples, and compare the networks of communication reconstructed ...
Borge-Holthoefer, Javier +4 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the growing influence of young people's activism in UK museums and its educational implications. It draws on a five‐year collaborative programme (2019–2023) with young people of colour (16–28) in a university museum setting, focusing on a Young Collective established to address cultural inequalities.
Sadia Habib
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