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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
(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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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).
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
[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
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