Spaces and scales of African student activism: Senegalese and Zimbabwean university students at the intersection of campus, nation and globe [PDF]
, 2008 African university students have long engaged in political activism, responding to changing political, social and economic circumstances through protest that has at times exerted considerable influence on the national stage.
Ansell, N, Zeilig, L
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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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Beyond the Social Gospel: Church Protest on the Prairies [PDF]
, 1992 Reviewed Book: Smillie, Benjamin G. Beyond the Social Gospel: Church Protest on the Prairies.
Cole-Arnal, Oscar
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Predictive Analysis for Social Processes II: Predictability and Warning Analysis
, 2009 This two-part paper presents a new approach to predictive analysis for social processes. Part I identifies a class of social processes, called positive externality processes, which are both important and difficult to predict, and introduces a multi-scale,
Colbaugh, Richard, Glass, Kristin
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Introduction: Prevent and Tame : Ideas for a New Perspective on Social Movements and Protest [PDF]
, 2010 Part of: Ullrich, Peter ; Papst, Andrea ; Heßdörfer, Florian: Introduction: Prevent and Tame : Ideas for a new perspective on social movements and protest. - In: Heßdörfer, Florian ; Pabst, Andrea ; Ullrich, Peter: Prevent and tame : Protest under (self-)
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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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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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The Diffusion of Contention in Contemporary China: An Investigation of the 2014-2015 Wave of Teacher Strikes [PDF]
, 2016 The article examines a wave of teachers’ strikes that spread across China during the fall, winter and spring of 2014-2015. Looking at event data and social media coverage of the wave, it discusses how social media enabled protesters to carry out media ...
Chang, Shengping, Hess, Steve
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Tents, tweets, and events: The interplay between ongoing protests and social media [PDF]
, 2015 Recent protests have fuelled deliberations about the extent to which social media ignites popular uprisings. In this article, we use time-series data of Twitter, Facebook, and onsite protests to assess the Granger causality between social media streams ...
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Land, 2019 To gain a social license to operate and grow, companies should have effective community engagement activities, social impact assessment processes, environmental and social impact management procedures, and human rights-compatible grievance redress ...
F. Vanclay, Philippe Hanna
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