National and Social Movements
Conflict and Astroturfing in Niyamgiri: The Importance of National Advocacy Networks in Anti-Corporate Social Movements
... pattern. National level actors and the ‘decentralised, non-hierarchical, grassroots-based social movements’ (Boehm, Spicer, & Fleming, 2008: 170) that usually are at the forefront of anti- ...
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Accounting and Social Movements: an exploration of critical accounting praxis
... for Social Movement Unionism, many others exist on a smaller scale in the rest of the world; not least the unexpected resurgence of the labour movement in the US in the ...coalition-based social unionism ...
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Foucault, social movements and heterotopic horizons: rupturing the order of things
... the National Council for Civil Liberties was formed as a result (Bagguley, ...Marginalised social groups such as the unemployed or racialized minorities produce a threat to power relations when they become ...
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The World Social Forum and the globalization of social movements and public spheres
... the national repertoires of collective action, which developed along with national public spheres, towards collective action coordinated globally in a more immediate way than ...
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Union organisations, social movements and the Augean stables of global governance
... The traditional international union organisations are currently engaged in a series of ‘social partnership’ initiatives at global level. Prominent amongst these is that addressed to ‘global governance’. This ...
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Transnational Social Movements
... of social movement mobilization across national boundaries: transnational coalitions and transnational networks, the distinguishing features of which are introduced in Fox ...transnational social ...
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The public sphere and network democracy: Social movements and political change?
... destabilized national economies and triggered political elites into introducing austerity ...these movements were promoted and maintained through the use of social media exactly in the same way as ...
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White Power Music and the Mobilization of Racist Social Movements
... One main reason for the wide diffusion of White Power music globally was the ability of White Power forces to tap into the potentialities of the Internet. In fact, since the mid 1990s, as a consequence of Internet ...
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New social movements in Greece: Aspects of the feminist and ecological projects
... The fifth Panhellenic conference (1989) brought the second significant crisis within the EGE and the beginning of the organisation’s gradual decline. From its inception in 1974, the EGE had openly supported the socialist ...
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A Revolutionary Perspective on Social Movements: Fundamentalism in the Islamic World
... contract institutionalized a policy guaranteeing every university graduate a government job. Public employment grew by about 70% from 1962 to 1970, at a time when the growth in national employment as a whole did ...
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Transforming Mexico: social movements, human rights and social media
... caused national and international outrage and was a critical moment in exposing the institutional and democratic deficits of the Peña Nieto government as well as the wider political ...subsequent social ...
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Social movements as networks of communication episodes
... Because the American SMs mostly looked the same and differentiated from the Polish SM, it begs a question on what the organizing patterns would look like under actors organizing a particular issue (as the Polish SM did), ...
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Crisis Management by Social Movements: Learning from Indian Microfinance
... increased social focus on Indian agrarian ...the National Rural Livelihood Mission become more ―grassroots oriented and hold national/state public hearings, conducted in cooperation with Civil ...
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Teleos group : a comparative study of the internet, social movements, and technology
... opens up this possibility – an extra-national state of the internet that is representative of a nation’s views and would need to be obeyed by politicians. Politicians that choose not to vote in line with their ...
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Shaping social movements: international actors in Kosovo and Afghanistan
... 2016). National Democratic Institute (NDI) research on political parties in Afghanistan in 2011 highlighted that specific ideology, messages and policy proposals were still being developed, lacking specific detail ...
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Marxism and Social Movements
... Marxist social movement perspective, these apparently “separate” struggles in Bolivia and Egypt — and in South African urban centres — have, in fact, common ...popular movements against the routine ...
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A tale of two movements: social movement mobilisation in Southern Russia
... do social movement dynamics operate the same way in non-democratic contexts as in democratic contexts? Second, can the same methods developed in Western liberal democracies for studying social ...
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Transnational consumer lifestyle and social movements
... I identify three theoretical assumptions underlying the glocalization perspective. First, this stream of studies acknowledges the myth of “pure, core culture” and poses that national borders only partially map on ...
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Humor in Social Movements: A Novel Take on Environmentalism
... of National Geographic's media portfolio around the world, and is thus linked to thousands of posts on social ...for social movements, it is helpful that we analyze a study that has already ...
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The metamorphosis of social movements into political parties during democratic transition processes A comparison of Egyptian and Tunisian movements and parties
... broader social grass-roots engagement as part of its remit; al-Nahda plainly had a political aim and accordingly used civil society platforms as its main stage (Bellin, 2013; Murphsy, ...
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