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Policing the Pedal Rebels: A Case Study of Environmental Activism Under COVID-19
International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2021 Australia, along with nation-states internationally, has entered a new phase of environmentally focused activism, with globalised, coordinated and social media–enabled environmental social movements seeking to address human-induced climate change and ...
Murray Lee
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Resistance against the Mafia: A Civic Struggle to Defy an Uncontestable Power [PDF]
, 2012 This study is based on participant observation of a protest against the Mafia that occurred in Rome on 26 September 2009. First, this essay offers an analysis by using symbols and their meanings, which are illustrated through the 'pyramid of social ...
Cayli, Baris
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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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Social Media, Political Mobilization, and High-Stakes Testing
Frontiers in Education, 2019 Social media posts in a Facebook group organized around the issue of refusing high-stakes testing in New Jersey were analyzed to understand how individuals and organizations use social media to engage in political protest against educational policies ...
Robin Tamarelli McKeon, Drew H. Gitomer
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, 2006 [From Summary] This report, which will be updated periodically, discusses the causes of growing social unrest in China and describes recent incidents, explains how the PRC government responds to protest activities, analyzes implications for PRC politics,
Lum, Thomas
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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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Klimax Working for the Climate: Through Humor, Play, and the Redefinition of Space
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2014 This article focuses on the strategies of protest employed by the climate-change activist network Klimax (circa 2007-10). My questions are: What, in their view, was the main threat to our environment? How did they protest against it?
Robert Hamrén
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GERAKAN PROTES SOSIAL PETANI DI JAWA PADA MASA KOLONIAL (DALAM PERSPEKTIF SEJARAH SOSIAL PEDESAAN)
Forum Ilmu Sosial, 2011 Movements of social politics protest in all its forms is not a new thing in the history of Indonesia. Social protest movement of farmers in Java does not belong to the past history, but a historical phenomenon that is always present in every period of ...
Abdul Muntholib
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Austerity and Anti-Systemic Protest: Bringing Hardships Back In
Journal of World-Systems Research, 2015 This article explores the relationship between hardships and protest in the world-system. Despite the history of discussion of anti-systemic protest, there has been little work that differentiates world-systems contributions to social movement research ...
Jon Shefner +2 more
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Studies in Communication, Media, 2022 Many studies show a positive relationship between media use and protest participation. Yet, the picture becomes less clear-cut for different types of media (traditional vs. social media).
Marlene Schaaf, Christina Viehmann
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