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Harnessing scholarship focused on literacy and poverty, in this article we aim to complicate the common understanding of the digital divide. First, we argue that the dominant literature on the digital divide misses broader connections... more
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      Cultural StudiesAnthropologyLiteracyDigital Divide
From sites like Hollaback! and Everyday Sexism, which document instances of street harassment and misogyny, to social media-organized movements and communities like #MeToo and #BeenRapedNeverReported, feminists are using participatory... more
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      Women's StudiesDigital MediaSocial ActivismSocial Media
for an updated and expanded version, see "The Assimilation of Tikkun Olam," Jewish Political Studies Review 25, no. 3-4 (Fall 2013), 10-42, available at  https://www.academia.edu/9569994/The_Assimilation_of_Tikkun_Olam
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      LiturgySocial JusticeSocial Activism
Enacted February 24, 2014 and effective until August 1, 2014, Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act targeted Ugandans of minority sexual orientations and gender identities—many of whom self-identify as 'kuchu'—by imposing life sentences for... more
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      Critical TheoryCultural StudiesSocial MovementsQueer Studies
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      Queer TheoryHIV/AIDSSocial Activism
This chapter interrogates how activist social media communication in authoritarian contexts is shaped through the mutual articulation of social media user practices, business models, and technological architectures, as well as through the... more
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      New MediaCensorshipIranian StudiesSocial Activism
Disrupting the Gaze is written in three parts. The first chapter Art Intervention and the Tate Gallery investigates contemporary art intervention at the Tate Gallery. It includes artists, art groups and activists: Graham Harwood,... more
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      CommunicationArt HistoryMedia StudiesNew Media
The onslaught of neoliberalism, austerity measures and cuts, impact of climate change, protracted conflicts and ongoing refugee crisis, rise of far right and populist movements have all negatively impacted on disability. Yet, disabled... more
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      Disability StudiesCritical Disability StudiesSocial ActivismDisability
Our scholarship on aids must be located at the crossroads of art and politics, life and art, and life and death.-Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez, "Response to the Repre sen ta tion of aids" Activism is an engagement with the hauntings of... more
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      Latina/o StudiesQueer TheoryHIV/AIDSLGBT Issues
This is not strictly an academic book, but an educational experiment full of dancing stories, metaphors, allegories, creative maps, and exercises that ask you to sit at the limits of our modern desires and imagination. Half-serious... more
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      EducationEnvironmental EducationClimate ChangePostcolonial Studies
Political geography traditionally focused on state, but there has been a broadening of what counts as ‘doing politics’ that includes the work of social movements. Much of this work though uses analytical categories other than social... more
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      SociologySocial MovementsGeographyPolitical Geography and Geopolitics
This report on Cambodia is one of a set of four country case studies designed to study the implications of closing civic space for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The case study was commissioned in response to... more
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      Social MovementsChinese StudiesHuman RightsInternational Trade
Studia o niepełnosprawności odróżniają „uszkodzenie” (impairment) od „niepełnosprawność” (disability). Uszkodzenie lub uszczerbek dotyczą fizyczności, (nie)możliwości, jakie daje nam ciało, które zamieszkujemy, natomiast niepełnosprawność... more
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      Disability StudiesCritical Disability StudiesQueer TheoryFeminist Disability Studies
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      Political communicationSocial ActivismSocial MediaRight-Wing Movements
Considérées comme les « arrière-cours » du paysage urbain israélien, les villes pluriethniques ont surtout été étudiées à la lumière du paradigme de la marginalité. Or ce paradigme omet de reconnaître la dimension sociale de ces espaces,... more
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      CreativityRadical GeographyIsrael StudiesSpace and Place
Despite its ubiquity as the term, ‘student movements’ are not easy to build or sustain. This is because campus activism typically features a diversity of political views and tactical preferences, and is organisationally restricted by the... more
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      SociologySocial MovementsEducationSocial Sciences
The NFL protests are only one of many celebrity-fueled political controversies during the Trump presidency. Why is there such a proliferation of celebrity activism? More importantly, does it amount to anything? What does our knowledge of... more
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      Social PsychologyMedia StudiesPolitical PsychologyPersuasion (Psychology)
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      Human GeographySocial GeographyResilienceSocial Activism
(1981-1995) targeted gay community greatly. While they were suffering from the disease, they were blamed for spreading it. Urgent action was needed to highlight this issue which was ignored by the US government for far too long. Gregg... more
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      Queer StudiesQueer TheoryHIV/AIDSSocial Activism
In this article, we discuss work from our collaborative research project, Community Engagement and Youth Leadership, a partnership between university scholars/activists with high school youth and their science teacher. A key goal of this... more
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      Science EducationCritical PedagogyPolitical ScienceSocial Activism
L'histoire de mai 68 et de la longue décennie de luttes qui en découle est demeurée à ce jour essentiellement parisienne, focalisée sur les étudiant.e.s et le gauchisme. En se centrant sur Marseille et les Bouches-du-Rhône, cet ouvrage... more
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      Social MovementsSocial ActivismLongitudinal ResearchSocial History
The history of modern slaveholding frequently centers on the nations of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, and regularly focuses on the prominence of the caste system, wherein Brahmin slaveholders occasionally hold those in lower castes,... more
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      Social ActivismModern Day Slavery
Publieke sociologie richt zich in de praktijk maar al te vaak op beleidsmakers of professionals uit het gevestigde middenveld. In dit hoofdstuk breken wij een lans om de publieken van de publieke sociologie verder te gaan zoeken dan... more
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      Action ResearchSocial ActivismUndocumented Immigration
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      Tourism StudiesCommunity DevelopmentHeritage TourismSocial Activism
Using qualitative research methods and social movement theory, I explored the significance of gospel music to the Forward Together Moral Movement in North Carolina and the meanings the singers who perform the music apply to their roles... more
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      Popular EducationPolitical ScienceSocial ActivismSacred Music
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      American LiteratureIntellectual HistoryHuman RightsPolitical Science
La aprobación de la Constitución de 1901 que instauró la República de Cuba privó a las mujeres, tanto blancas como afrocubanas, del derecho a participar en el sistema electoral. En un contexto marcado por la primera ola feminista en los... more
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      Modern HistoryGender StudiesLatin American and Caribbean HistoryCuban Studies
The ability of social media users to express themselves online should be influential for opinion formation, including potential polarization. Still, little is known about how expression interacts with users’ psychological predispositions,... more
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      Social MovementsRace and RacismSocial ActivismSocial Media
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      Drugs and drug cultureSocial ActivismActivismoPolítica De Drogas
Radio is an old medium that seems to struggle to renew itself. With the switchover from analogue to digital and the necessity to keep up with consumer demand and expectations, radio has been regularly deemed to be obsolete. Radio as a... more
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      Social MovementsParticipatory ResearchPoliticsCitizen Journalism
Washington, DC. has many of the most progressive and trans inclusive non-discrimination laws in the nation, yet transgender, transsexual, trans-spectrum (henceforth ‘trans’) and gender-non conforming residents continue to experience... more
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      Health SciencesGender StudiesQueer StudiesSex and Gender
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      Disaster StudiesSocial ActivismHurricane Katrina
Personal sustainability in social movements is a huge and complex topic, but one which is immediately important to many participants, both in terms of keeping going themselves and of supporting their fellow-activists and preventing... more
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      SociologySocial MovementsSocial ActivismStress and Burnout
My paper is titled: Chouftouhonna Festival: Feminist and Queer Artivism as Transformative Agency for a New Politics of Recognition in Post-revolutionary Tunisia (pp.203-230).
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      Gender StudiesPerforming ArtsMiddle East StudiesMiddle East & North Africa
Desde la caída de las torres gemelas en el año 2001 y las subsiguientes políticas internacionales de ocupación y mediatización de los acuerdos y enfrentamientos gubernamentales, parece haber sucedido un cambio a la hora de debatir de... more
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      Identity (Culture)Social Activism15M movement
En Buenaventura, Colombia, ciudad portuaria asolada por la violencia, la Red Solidaria Contra las Violencias de Género: Mariposas de Alas Nuevas Construyendo Futuro constituye un colectivo de mujeres que ponen en riesgo sus propias vidas... more
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      Afro Latin AmericaColombiaResistance (Social)Social Activism
Friendship as Social Justice Activism brings together academics and activists to have essential conversations about friendship, love, and desire as kinetics for social justice movements. The contributors featured here come from across the... more
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      Cultural GeographyMedia StudiesSoutheast Asian StudiesGlobalization
Слушатели курса ФОМ-Лабс «Исследования в городе: оптика наблюдателя» посетили город Кимры, чтобы понять, как возможны социокультурные проекты в малом городе, который пережил героиновый апокалипсис в начале нулевых. В красочном альбоме... more
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      Cultural StudiesEthnographyUrban StudiesSocial Activism
In 20th century, amaranth has been rediscovered as crop that could defend vulnerable areas of the world from hunger due to its tolerance for drought and poor soil. It still constitutes a minor cereal crop in the global scale, but as a... more
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      Indigenous StudiesWaterMexican StudiesPoverty
This detailed and intellectually rigorous text is the fruit of nine years of study by Caroline Gatt, outlining her ethnographic account of the international environmental movement through a study of Friends of the Earth (FoE) and Friends... more
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      AnthropologySocial ActivismEnvironmental PoliticsOntological Turn
The proposal delves into the heterogeneity of households and proves the multiplicity of domestic meanings with the aim of producing useful and operative knowledge related to a wide range of issues affecting communities and urban systems.... more
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      CommonsSocial ActivismCommunity ParticipationSocial Ecology
This volume focuses on the hyper-mediatization of Latin America from the citizen’s perspective, considering the social impact and how people embrace information technologies to improve their living conditions, engage in political issues... more
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      Latin American StudiesMedia StudiesInternet StudiesSocial Activism
Summary of the literature on why playtime at school matters and a look at the original research findings analysing the results of a survey of over 4000 schools about the length and frequency of playtimes.
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      EducationEnvironmental EducationGlobalizationAustralia
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      Social MovementsSocial ActivismActivismMovimientos sociales
[PART] ....The concept of Cyberactivism has hit Kenya like a relentless wave as most Kenyans (especially the youths) have more times than not been able to use these social networking platforms for various purposes, such as awareness... more
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      Constitutional LawPoliticsSocial ActivismKenya
Educators of color can often (in)advertently perpetuate gendered oppression against each other to cope with racism and its associated stressors. This occurs in part due to the violence we have endured as (a) minoritized people in a... more
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      EducationCommunity OrganizingCritical Race TheorySocial Activism
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      Social ChangeSocial MovementsCommunicationRhetoric
This report evolved from contributions to the Society of Existential Analysis conference in London " Being and Doing " November, 2015. I briefly describe opening the conference with a guided Focusing session since this practice is... more
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      Existential PsychologyEmbodied Mind and CognitionSocial ActivismExperiential Learning (Active Learning)
As underscored by their professional code of ethics, all social workers are called to engage in social action that advances social justice. Yet, the focus of the profession has drifted toward indivi- dual treatment and away from social... more
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      Social JusticeSocial ActivismSocial Justice in EducationEquity and Social Justice in Higher Education
El grupo de investigación Infancia Contemporánea está interesado por las condiciones de vida y desarrollo de las niñas y niños a comienzos del siglo XXI. El punto de partida del grupo es la infancia urbana en un mundo occidental... more
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      Cultural GeographyParticipatory Action ResearchSocial Activism