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Islam, Politics and Social Movements
This book contains thirteen well-researched case studies on social move ments in North Africa, India, the Middle East, and Iran. Each movement differs, as the issues and concerns vary according to area.
Nasteen Fazalbhoy
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Politicized Identities and Social Movements
This essay reviews the following works: Earth Politics: Religion, Decolonization, and Bolivia’s Indigenous Intellectuals. By Waskar Ari. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Pp. ix + 262. $25.95 paper. ISBN: 9780822356172.
Marc Becker
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Conceptualising success and failure for social movements [PDF]
The paper discusses some of the most significant conceptions of success and failure present in the social movement literature, and highlights the gaps present in these theories.
Saeed, Raza
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Network topology drives population temporal variability in experimental habitat networks
Habitat patches connected by dispersal pathways form habitat networks. We explored how network topology affects population outcomes in laboratory experiments using a model species (Daphnia carinata). Central habitat nodes in complex lattice networks exhibited lower temporal variability in population sizes, suggesting they support more stable ...
Yiwen Xu+3 more
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Social Movements, Protest, and Policy
The capacity of Latin American social groups to mobilize has excited the imagination of students of the region since the birth of Latin American studies itself.
Eduardo Silva
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Universities, social movements and market forces [PDF]
Universities have changed drastically over the past few decades. To understand and articulate what has happened, I make a stab at answering, however sketchily, the following questions: What forces have shaped universities over recent decades?
Sheehan, Helena
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Geographic variation in walking activity in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum
This study examined whether there is geographic variation in field populations, focusing on the moving activity in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Results showed significant differences in moving activity among field populations but no correlation with latitude or meteorological factors.
Kentarou Matsumura
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A Comparison Between Hobsbawm’s and Bayat’s Views on Non-Western Social Movements
Until the 1960s, literature on social movements had been limited to such movements that emerged in the West in the modern period-. These movements had organizational structures and leaders and contributed to a revolution.
Olçum Akyüz, Mehmet Ali Akyurt
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Polarization in social movements on Twitter [PDF]
Online social networks have become a parallel universe of socialization from which interactive dynamics are generated until recently unknown. From this framework of online communication, different social movements have reached a greater boom and spread ...
Castillo-de-Mesa, Joaquin
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Social context prevents heat hormetic effects against mutagens during fish development
This study shows that sublethal heat stress protects fish embryos against ultraviolet radiation, a concept known as ‘hormesis’. However, chemical stress transmission between fish embryos negates this protective effect. By providing evidence for the mechanistic molecular basis of heat stress hormesis and interindividual stress communication, this study ...
Lauric Feugere+5 more
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