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Sur: International Journal on Human Rights, 2020 What made you care about human rights and why should others? Through personal story telling, this article explores how social justice activists can use their own journeys and narratives to motivate and inspire others to involve themselves in the fight ...
Ishtar Lakhani
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Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2019 This work is part of the research project developed by the Observatory on New Social Movements and Law in Brazil at La Salle University, focusing in the city of Porto Alegre and on the occupation of the City Council on July of 2013, which is placed in ...
Fiammetta Bonfigli +2 more
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Black Lives Matter in Wikipedia: Collaboration and Collective Memory around Online Social Movements [PDF]
, 2016 Social movements use social computing systems to complement offline mobilizations, but prior literature has focused almost exclusively on movement actors' use of social media. In this paper, we analyze participation and attention to topics connected with the Black Lives Matter movement in the English language version of Wikipedia between 2014 and 2016.
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Scaling Social Movements Through Social Media: The Case of Black Lives Matter
Social Media + Society, 2018 In this article, we explore the potential role of social media in helping movements expand and/or strengthen themselves internally, processes we refer to as scaling up.
Marcia D. Mundt +2 more
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Islam, Politics and Social Movements
American Journal of Islam and Society, 1992 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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The Levy Flight of Cities: Analyzing Social-Economical Trajectories with Auto-Embedding [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 It has been found that human mobility exhibits random patterns following the Levy flight, where human movement contains many short flights and some long flights, and these flights follow a power-law distribution. In this paper, we study the social-economical development trajectories of urban cities.
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Conceptualising success and failure for social movements [PDF]
, 2009 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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Effects of chronic browsing on life‐history traits of an irruptive large herbivore population
Population Ecology, EarlyView.This study aimed to determine the relationship between diet quality, body mass, and size (hind foot length), and female reproduction and sought to identify the mechanism by which high density under severe food limitations is maintained. Our results demonstrated that sika deer introduced to Nakanoshima Island have maintained high densities through high ...
Koichi Kaji +9 more
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Social Movements, Protest, and Policy
European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2015 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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Polarization in social movements on Twitter [PDF]
, 2019 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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