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Taha, Diane, Sally O. Hastings, and Elizabeth M. Minei. "Shaping Student Activists: Discursive Sensemaking of Activism and Participation Research." Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 15, no. 6 (December 27, 2015): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.14434/josotl.v15i6.13820.
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As social media becomes a more potent force in society, particularly for younger generations, the role in activism has been contested. This qualitative study examines 35 interviews with students regarding their perceptions of the use of social media in social change, their perceptions of activists, and their level of self-identification as an activist. Data suggest that students use media to engage in offline participation in activist causes, because offline presents a “safe” place to begin their involvement. Findings also point to the unified pejorative connotations of the term “activist”, yet also demonstrate ways that students transform the negative stereotype of activists in a way that creates a more positive image of activists. Most participants in the study were able to see sufficient positive characteristics in behaviors they associated with activism to prompt the students to identify themselves as “activists” or “aspiring activists”. We offer 3 practical recommendations for teachers who seek to increase service learning vis a vis activism in their classrooms.
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Chaguaceda Noriega, Armando. "Alter-activismo global: una mirada sugerente." Clivajes. Revista de Ciencias Sociales, no. 13 (September 21, 2020): 206. http://dx.doi.org/10.25009/clivajes-rcs.v0i13.2654.
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En su libro (Movimientos sociales en el siglo XXI. Buenos Aires: clacso), el sociólogo Geoffrey Pleyers (2018) identifica rasgos esenciales de los nuevos actores y procesos de cambio a escala global. Con una reflexión que nace del acompañamiento de luchas en todo el orbe, el autor habla de alteractivismo y espacios de experiencia, de gramáticas de acción basadas en la razón y en la subjetividad. Los alteractivistas son, para Pleyers (2018: 67) una suerte de electrones libres, “individuos que guardan su distancia respecto de cualquier organización, pero que interactúan según les parece mejor con grupos, redes u organizaciones que más coinciden con sus ideas y con el tipo de organización que quieren llevar a cabo.Global alter-activism: a suggestive lookAbstractIn his book (Social movements in the 21st century. Buenos Aires: CLACSO), the sociologist Geoffrey Pleyers (2018) identifies essential features of new actors and processes of change on a global scale. With a reflection that is born from the accompaniment of struggles throughout the world, the author speaks of alteractivism and spaces of experience, of grammars of action based on reason and subjectivity. The alteractivists are, for Pleyers (2018: 67) a kind of free electrons, "individuals who keep their distance from any organization, but who interact as they think best with groups, networks or organizations that most coincide with their ideas and with the type of organization they want to carry out.Alter-activisme global: un regard suggestifRésuméDans son livre (Movimientos sociales en el siglo XXI. Buenos Aires: clacso), le sociologue Geoffrey Pleyers (2018) identifie des traits essentiels des nouveaux acteurs et processus de changement à échelle globale. Avec une réflexion qui naît de l’accompagnement des luttes par tout dans le monde, l’auteur parle d’alter activisme et d’espaces d’expérience, de grammaires d’action basées sur la raison et la subjectivité. Les alter activistes sont, pour Pleyers (2018: 67), une sorte d’électrons libres, des “individus qui gardent leur distance en vers n’importe quelle organisation, mais qui interagissent selon leur convenance avec des groupes, des réseaux ou des organisations qui coïncident le plus avec leurs idées et avec le type d’organisation qu’ils veulent créer.
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Fitch, Sebastien. "Derailing Dewey: Art Education and Social Reconstruction | Déraillement de Dewey : éducation artistique et reconstruction sociale." Canadian Review of Art Education / Revue canadienne d’éducation artistique 44, no. 1 (December 12, 2017): 74–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.26443/crae.v44i1.10.
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Abstract: In this paper, a case is made for a critical re-examination of current trends in art education which support the adoption of inherently politically motivated curricula. The author examines the historical influence of Postmodernism upon both the fields of art and education, and goes on to argue that the potential for art to serve as a vehicle for ideology has caused many art educators to mistakenly conflate their moral role as teachers with their drive to disseminate their personally held political beliefs.Key words: Arts; Education; Ideology; Morality; Dewey; ActivismRésumé : Cet article établit le bien-fondé d’une révision critique des tendances actuelles dans le domaine de l’éducation artistique qui favorisent l’adoption de programmes à caractère intrinsèquement politiques. L’auteur examine l’influence historique du postmodernisme sur les domaines de l’art et de l’éducation. L’auteur allègue que le rôle potentiel de l’art comme vecteur idéologique a incité plusieurs éducateurs artistiques à y associer à tort un rôle moral dans l’espoir de disséminer leurs propres convictions politiques.Mots-clés : arts ; éducation ; idéologie ; moralité ; Dewey ; activisme
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Tiidenberg, Katrin, and Airi-Alina Allaste. "LGBT activism in Estonia: Identities, enactment and perceptions of LGBT people." Sexualities 23, no. 3 (November 20, 2018): 307–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460718797262.
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This article explores how Estonian LGBT activists make sense of their own activism. We analyze the activists’ perceptions of their activism, their identities and how those identities are deployed for action. All of these are, in turn, situated in how activists understand the broader Estonian LGBT community, and Estonian society’s historico-politically complex relationship with activism as such. The article is theoretically grounded within the new social movement theories and theories of emergent LGBT and activist identities. The analyzed material consists of interviews, observations, documents and meeting notes gathered via ethnographic fieldwork with Estonian LGBT activists in 2012–2013. Pragmatic and iterative qualitative analysis revealed that the activists studied resist the activist identity, and perceive there to be a weak collective identity among the broader Estonian LGBT population. However, the lobbying for the Registered Partnership Law (passed in 2014) brought a shift in LGBT activists’ ways of enacting their identities and their perception of the possibility of LGBT activism in Estonia.
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Lund, Darren, and Rae Ann Van Beers. "Unintentional Consequences: Facing the Risks of Being a Youth Activist." in education 26, no. 1 (December 23, 2020): 3–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.37119/ojs2020.v26i1.479.
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Students involved in social justice activist groups and activities encounter several potentially negative consequences in advocating for issues that are important to them. Through duoethnographic interviews with scholar-activists, former youth activists describe the barriers they experienced as socially engaged young people, including dealing with pushback from their cultural, school, and even activist communities. Without adult allies to help mentor them through these processes, the negative emotions associated with these encounters can lead youth to burn out and leave activism altogether. The findings of this study remind educators that they have an important role to play in providing meaningful activist training, apprenticeship opportunities, and supports for youth who are passionately engaged in progressive social and political action.
Keywords: social justice activism; youth; duoethnography; student movements
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Benton, Richard A., and Jihae You. "Governance monitors or market rebels? Heterogeneity in shareholder activism." Strategic Organization 17, no. 3 (June 2018): 281–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1476127018776482.
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Agency theory is the dominant theory of shareholder activism and argues that activist investors function as external governance monitors. Agency theory predicts that activist investors will tend to target firms who exhibit governance and performance problems. However, given limited resources and time, activist investors must often decide between selecting targets with particularly strong agency and performance problems and those where their activism efforts are most likely to succeed. Social movement scholars point out that, in social movement contexts, the corporate opportunity structure affects when and where activism is likely to arise. We draw on insights from social movement scholarship and agency theory to advance a theory of heterogeneity in shareholder activism. We argue that an activist’s access to power and resources shapes its target selection, particularly the activist’s preference for targeting firms with greater agency problems or where contextual factors favor chances of success. Whereas more powerful activists are able to wield their power as effective governance monitors against firms with substantial agency problems, less powerful activists must strategically select targets of opportunity by choosing firms where contextual factors improve their odds of success. We test these propositions using an innovative relational approach that can simultaneously incorporate firm traits, activist identities, and endogenous dynamics.
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Froissart, Chloé, and Yi Xu. "Hong Kong et le delta de la rivière des Perles : liens économiques et activisme social." Critique 807 - 808, no. 8 (2014): 726. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/criti.807.0726.
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Granovetter, Sara. "Activist as Symptom: Healing Trauma within a Ruptured Collective." Society & Animals 29, no. 7 (December 23, 2021): 659–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685306-bja10051.
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Abstract Animal activists serve as symptom-bearers for trans-species collective trauma within Western-industrial society. Findings from literature on traumatology and nonhuman animal activism, contemporary discourse, and the voices of ten activists currently in the field suggest that many animal activists suffer some form of trauma. Activist trauma arises through overlapping, complex relational processes of intersubjective attunement with nonhuman animals and embeddedness within a human social context that disavows nonhuman suffering. In understanding activist trauma as a symptom of a dysfunctional system, I depathologize activist suffering and view activists as integral members of a whole society that seeks healing.
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Fiorito, Jack, Daniel Tope, Philip E. Steinberg, Irene Padavic, and Caroline E. Murphy. "Lay Activism and Activism Intentions in a Faculty Union." Labor Studies Journal 36, no. 4 (October 3, 2011): 483–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0160449x11422609.
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Prior conceptual work on union renewal places activism in a central role. Understanding of activism’s antecedents, however, remains limited. This study uses a sample of faculty union members at a large public university, thus providing considerable diversity in work settings within a single employer organization. Using survey and archival data, this study explores the role of selected contextual factors on faculty labor activism. A tentative but interesting finding is that linkages to other activists appear to be a stronger predictor of individual activism than does departmental membership density. That is, it seems that “subcultures of apathy” can exist in even high membership density settings and that social ties to activists may spur members to heightened levels of activism.
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Kluch, Yannick. "“My Story Is My Activism!”: (Re-)Definitions of Social Justice Activism Among Collegiate Athlete Activists." Communication & Sport 8, no. 4-5 (January 7, 2020): 566–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2167479519897288.
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Despite the recent re-emergence of the athlete activist into public consciousness, activism among athletes continues to be viewed as nonnormative behavior. Drawing from interviews with 31 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I collegiate athlete activists from across the United States, this study examined contemporary definitions of collegiate athlete activism for advancing social justice efforts. Five different conceptualizations of social justice activism emerged during the interviews: activism as social justice action, mentorship, authenticity, intervention, and public acts of resistance. Findings document changing notions of athlete activism and reveal nuanced forms of situational activism that do not rely on public expressions of resistance but rather are woven carefully into the fabric that makes up the athletes’ everyday lives. For these athletes, the image of an activist is not so much that of one walking in the streets but rather that of one using the social power they have as an athlete to promote strategic change in everyday situations. Limitations, directions for future research, and implications for praxis are discussed.
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Vanner, Catherine, and Anuradha Dugal. "Personal, Powerful, Political." Girlhood Studies 13, no. 2 (June 1, 2020): vii—xv. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2020.130202.
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“Today I met my role model,” tweeted climate change activist Greta Thunberg on 25 February 2020, captioning a picture of herself with girls’ education activist Malala Yousafzai, who also tweeted the picture, proclaiming that Greta was “the only friend I would skip school for.” The proclamations of mutual admiration illustrate a form of solidarity between the two most famous girl activists, who are often pointed to as examples of the power of the individual girl activist in spite of their intentionally collective approaches that connect young activists and civil society organizations around the world. These girl activists have garnered worldwide attention for their causes but have also been subject to problematic media representations that elevate voices of privilege and/or focus on girl activists as exceptional individuals (Gordon and Taft 2010; Hesford 2014), often obscuring the movements behind them. For this reason, this special issue explores activism networks by, for, and with girls and young women, examining and emphasizing girls’ activism in collective and collaborative spaces.
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Vromen, Ariadne. "Community–Based Activism and Change: The Cases of Sydney and Toronto." City & Community 2, no. 1 (March 2003): 47–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1540-6040.00038.
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How do community–based political activists justify the ongoing effectiveness of their chosen location for political activity? How do they describe the shifts in relationships between community–development activism and the state? This article presents findings from case studies undertaken with two community–development organizations based in Sydney, Australia, and Toronto, Canada. The focus of the analysis is 40 in–depth interviews conducted with activists in the late 1990s. The article details how the activists describe the present realities for community–development activism and what they conceptualize as the future for their field of political action. It is argued that by appreciating how activists substantiate the relevance of community–development activism in periods of economic, political, and social change we are able to build a notion of participation that is inclusive of, rather than critical of, everyday activist experiences.
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Vredenburg, Jessica, Sommer Kapitan, Amanda Spry, and Joya A. Kemper. "Brands Taking a Stand: Authentic Brand Activism or Woke Washing?" Journal of Public Policy & Marketing 39, no. 4 (August 14, 2020): 444–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0743915620947359.
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In today’s marketplace, consumers want brands to take a stand on sociopolitical issues. When brands match activist messaging, purpose, and values with prosocial corporate practice, they engage in authentic brand activism, creating the most potential for social change and the largest gains in brand equity. In contrast, brands that detach their activist messaging from their purpose, values, and practice are enacting inauthentic brand activism through the practice of “woke washing,” potentially misleading consumers with their claims, damaging both their brand equity and potential for social change. First, the authors draw on theory to inform a typology of brand activism to determine how, and when, a brand engaging with a sociopolitical cause can be viewed as authentic. Second, a theory-driven framework identifies moderate, optimal incongruence between brand and cause as a boundary condition, showing how brand activists may strengthen outcomes in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Third, the authors explore important policy and practice implications for current and aspiring brand activists, from specific brand-level standards in marketing efforts to third-party certifications and public sector partnerships.
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Van den Bossche, Stefan. "“Een stille, ongemanierde volksjongen”. Jos Verdegem (1897-1957), Wies Moens en “Ter Waarheid”." WT. Tijdschrift over de geschiedenis van de Vlaamse beweging 66, no. 2 (January 1, 2007): 146–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.21825/wt.v66i2.12541.
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Het menselijke tekort in het algemeen, het rampzalige van de oorlog, de sociale en culturele aspecten van de Vlaamse beweging, het Vlaams kunstleven aan de IJzer, het activisme, het frontisme: al die geladen thema’s komen rechtstreeks of onrechtstreeks aan bod in de bijdrage van Stefan Van den Bossche over Jos Verdegem (1897-1957). Deze minder bekende Gentse schilder uit het interbellum kwam eerst in nauwe betrekking met de expressionistische dichter en journalist Wies Moens en met andere vooraanstaande Vlaamsgezinde kunstenaars. Verdegems (tijdelijk) verblijf in Parijs en zijn huwelijk met een Française leidde er uiteindelijk toe dat hij vervreemde van het Vlaamsgezinde milieu. Daarenboven droegen zijn hoekige karaktereigenschappen er toe bij dat hij “eerder berucht dan beroemd” werd.________"A quiet, ill-mannered working-class lad". Jos Verdegem (1897-1957), Wies Moens and "Ter Waarheid"This contribution by Stefan Van den Bossche about Jos Verdegem (1897-1957) deals directly or indirectly with a variety of very meaningful topics such as human failure in general, the calamity of war, the social and cultural aspects of the Flemish movement, Flemish art life on the IJzer, activism, and frontism.This lesser-known painter from Ghent from the Interbellum period first came in close contact with the expressionist poet and journalist Wies Moens and with other prominent Flemish nationalist artists. Verdegem's (temporary) stay in Paris and his marriage to a Frenchwoman caused his ultimate estrangement from the Flemish nationalist environment. Moreover, his awkward characteristics contributed to his becoming "infamous rather than famous".
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Adae, Eric Kwame. "Weightier Matters." Janus Head 19, no. 1 (2021): 39–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jh20211914.
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Trendwatchers have spotted some seismic shifts in relations between business and politics. Particularly, Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) are increasingly weighing in on greater good issues. Although a global phenomenon, current CEO activism scholarship reflects a Western focus; an ideological bias for modernist perspectives; a preponderance of White male CEO voices, and the relative elision of female activist CEOs. While, generally, no empirically-based typology of the sociopolitical issues that matter to activist CEOs exists, the specific range of causes of particular concern to non-Western CEO activists is neatly absent. This paper addresses all of these concerns, offering an inquiry into the emerging CEO activism phenomenon in the Ghanaian non-Western sociocultural milieu. Data collection entailed three separate rounds of fieldwork that saw long interviews with a corps of 24 self-identified informants, featuring an even split of men and women activist CEOs. The hermeneutic phenomenological theme-based approach guided data analysis. Following extant brand activism models, a typology of six clusters of CEO activism issues is offered that highlights the weightier matters of sociocultural activism, environmental activism, business/workplace activism, political activism, legal activism, and economic activism. Sociocultural issues include Ghana’s fight against COVID-19, where activist CEOs pooled resources to construct and equip a new multimillion dollar 100-bed infectious diseases hospital facility, embarked on risk communication campaigns, donated critical health supplies, funded the screening and testing of employees, provided food and essential supplies to vulnerable groups, and called out the government for lapses in the management of this health crisis. Besides internationalizing CEO activism studies for the strategic communications, leadership, business ethics and responsible management fields, the results suggest the need to consider the perspectives of CEO activists in non- Western societies. This paper contributes mainly to current discussions in CEO activism (aka corporate social advocacy) and brand activism. It contributes to other theoretical and conceptual streams, including covenantal notions of public relations, Caritas, Ubuntu Philosophy, Africapitalism, and postmodern values in strategic communication. This paper contributes to the upper echelon perspective; insider activism; sustainability transitions; and current discussions concerning how to address issues of diversity, equity, inclusivity, and social justice in the public relations literature. Policy implications are laid out, and areas for future research are indicated.
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Costa, Ana L., Henrique Vaz, and Isabel Menezes. "The Activist Craft: Learning Processes and Outcomes of Professional Activism." Adult Education Quarterly 71, no. 3 (February 10, 2021): 211–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0741713620988255.
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Work as a place of activism is a vast field to be explored in adult education research, particularly within educational, social, and community intervention with people in situations of vulnerability. This qualitative study aims to unveil the richness of activists’ learning processes and outcomes by reflecting on the pedagogy of professional activism, with professionals working in Portugal. Their sharing reveals a thematic influence and interdependence between the dimensions “How?” and “What?” of professional activism learning and the themes composing them—respectively, “political socialization” and “work experience”; and “critical, social and political consciousness,” “sense of (in)justice and empathy,” and “know-how to speak out.” As professionals learn how to become activists, they also construct this praxis, and themselves as professionals, giving meaning and (re)defining their activist craft, through a learning-creative process.
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Wielk, Emily, and Alecea Standlee. "Fighting for Their Future: An Exploratory Study of Online Community Building in the Youth Climate Change Movement." Qualitative Sociology Review 17, no. 2 (April 30, 2021): 22–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.17.2.02.
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While offline iterations of the climate activism movement have spanned decades, today online involvement of youth through social media platforms has transformed the landscape of this social movement. Our research considers how youth climate activists utilize social media platforms to create and direct social movement communities towards greater collective action. Our project analyzes narrative framing and linguistic conventions to better understand how youth climate activists utilized Twitter to build community and mobilize followers around their movement. Our project identifies three emergent strategies, used by youth climate activists, that appear effective in engaging activist communities on Twitter. These strategies demonstrate the power of digital culture, and youth culture, in creating a collective identity within a diverse generation. This fusion of digital and physical resistance is an essential component of the youth climate activist strategy and may play a role in the future of emerging social movements.
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Meva’a Abomo, Dominique. "Militantisme socio-sanitaire et changement socio-spatial dans les villes tropicales : bilan de l’expérience camerounaise." Reflets 23, no. 2 (February 14, 2018): 69–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1043303ar.
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Le militantisme socio-sanitaire désigne l’engagement(social, politique, économique, culturel ou environnemental)et l’agir individuel et/ou collectif dans le but de promouvoir la santé aux échelles individuelle, familiale et/ou communautaire. Sa contribution au changement sociospatial dans les villes camerounaises est mitigée à cause de la désarticulation structurelle et fonctionnelle entre les cinq composantes de l’univers du militantisme socio-sanitaire : acteurs sociaux, objet-militant, enjeu-militant, activisme et temporalité. Cette désarticulation entretient l’érodabilité de l’engagement socio-spatial volontaire. À l’étude de conclure qu’il faut faire de la ville camerounaise une priorité du militantisme socio-sanitaire, et du militantisme socio-sanitaire une priorité dans la ville camerounaise.
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Mitchell, Claudia. "A Girl Activist Inventory." Girlhood Studies 13, no. 2 (June 1, 2020): v—vi. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2020.130201.
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In March 2019, I had the pleasure of giving a talk at Peter Green College at the University of British Columbia that I called “The Politics and Possibilities of Girl-led and Youth-led Arts-based Activism to Address Gender Violence.” I wanted to highlight in particular the activist work of numerous groups of Indigenous girls and young women in a current project and the youth AIDS activist work of the Fire and Hope project in South Africa but I also wanted to place this work in the context of girls’ activism and youth activism more broadly. To do this I started out with a short activity called “Know your Girl Activist” during which I showed PowerPoint photos of some key girl and young women activists of the last few years, and asked the audience if they could identify them. The activists included two Nobel Prize Peace Prize winners, Malala Yousafzai (2014) and Nadia Murad (2018) along with Autumn Pelletier, the young Indigenous woman from Northern Ontario, Canada, well known for her work on water activism, and, of course, Greta Thunberg, now a household name but then, in 2019, already well known for her work on climate change activism. To my surprise only some of these activists were recognized, so, during the Q and A session, when I was asked if there is a history of girls as activists I could see that this question indicated clearly the urgent need for this special issue of Girlhood Studies which was only just in process then. Now, thanks to the dedication of the two guest editors of this special issue, Catherine Vanner and Anuradha Dugal and the wide range of superb contributors, I can point confidently to girls’ activism as a burgeoning area of study in contemporary feminism rooted in feminist history.
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Keating, Paul. "Games for Social Change." International Journal of Game-Based Learning 6, no. 4 (October 2016): 73–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijgbl.2016100105.
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Building on the use of the internet and social media as sites for activism, this paper highlights the emergence of political activism and collective protest in the online gaming environment. Referencing social movement theory and the rapidly evolving capacity of multiplayer online games to facilitate the development of strong group identities and real-time, real-world collaboration, the paper explores the potential of such games to create a space and a mechanism for enabling the emergence of movements for social change. Highlighting the growing number of social activist games designers, building values of equality and social justice into their gameplay, the paper draws an epistemological link between the work of these “conscientious designers” and the process of Conscientization within youth and community work inspired by the critical analysis of political activists such as Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal.
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Ruiz, Berenice Andaluz, Kai-Wei Cheng, B. Cheree Copeland Terrell, Kevin A. Lewis, Maxwell C. Mattern, and Anthony M. Wright. "For us, by us: Exploring constructions of student activism and university support." Higher Education Politics & Economics 3, no. 2 (December 1, 2017): 239–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.32674/hepe.v3i2.11.
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Across the country, identity-based activist movements have impacted the mobilization of student activists on college campuses. This article focuses on students’ construction of activism and their perceptions of support from administration, faculty, and staff. The researchers employed a constructivist framework and revealed four domains highlighting student’s experiences with activism on campus. Our recommendations describe ways campus stakeholders can better support student efforts for social change.
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Caulier, Mathieu. "L’antiféminisme des « populationnistes »." Articles 25, no. 1 (July 12, 2012): 71–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1011117ar.
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L’auteur propose une analyse des antiféminismes exprimés par des acteurs centraux du champ des politiques de population, devenu un espace « proféministe » recentré sur la « santé et les droits reproductifs » au cours des années 90. Cette « révolution », notée lors de la Conférence du Caire sur la population de 1994, a vu la victoire d’un groupe de voix féministes au sein des fondations philanthropiques et des organisations et la relégation relative des anciens experts et expertes en matière de « population ». Cette prise de pouvoir a délié l’expression d’un antiféminisme, souvent voilé de rectitude politique (politiquement correct), qui structure les représentations de l’espace social de la santé reproductive et opère une dichotomie entre expertise scientifique légitime et activisme idéologique illégitime.
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Hightower, Ben, Scott East, and Simon Hunt. "Pranks in Contentious Politics." Contention 7, no. 1 (July 1, 2019): 81–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/cont.2019.070107.
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There is often a division between scholarly publication and activist knowledge—something that Sarah Maddison and Sean Scalmer (2005) suggest may be countered by taking the knowledge produced by activists seriously. In this interview, Simon Hunt reflects on the genesis of Pauline Pantsdown, a drag persona that he developed in the late 1990s in reaction to Australian Conservative politician Pauline Hanson, who generated controversy for her racist and divisive views. The introduction briefly considers the importance of activist accounts and contextualizes Hunt’s practice in relation to arts activism and networked societies. From there, Hunt discusses a range of significant considerations for activism, notably the significance of using persona as a means for activism, the affordances and challenges of using social media, and methods for activating participation in a changing media landscape.
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Ortuño Mengual, Pedro, and Virginia Villaplana Ruiz. "Activismo Transmedia. Narrativas de participación para el cambio social. Entre la comunicación creativa y el media art." Obra digital, no. 12 (February 28, 2017): 123–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.25029/od.2017.123.12.
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El artículo propone una revisión de prácticas activistas mediáticas, origen de las formas participativas de la narrativa transmedia, en relación al lugar y la acción política. La implantación de las redes digitales ha permitido el desarrollo de una cultura red. Se analizan prácticas artísticas de colectivos activistas y las nuevas propuestas desarrolladas con dispositivos móviles vía GPS y webdoc. En este sentido, se proponen tres líneas discursivas sobre el activismo transmedia: las aperturas narrativas del territorio y la ciudadanía, las políticas de acción y representación colectiva, y finalmente, la expresión de la experiencia mediante el testimonio.Transmedia activism. Participatory narratives for social changeAbstractWe propose a review of media activist practices giving rise to participative transmedia narratives in relation to political action and location. Digital networks have allowed the development of a network culture. We discuss artistic practices of activist groups and new proposals made via GPS with mobile devices and web documentaries. We identify three kinds of discourse in transmedia activism: narratives that open up to the regionand its inhabitants, policies for collective action and representation, and the expression of experiences through witness.Keywords: Transmedia, activism, participatory media practices, discursive communication, creative communication, social artpp. 123-144
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Cardoso, Daniel. "The Political Is Personal: The Importance of Affective Narratives in the Rise of Poly-activism." Sociological Research Online 24, no. 4 (April 1, 2019): 691–708. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1360780419835559.
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There is a considerable gap on how social movements that center around non/monogamies decide to organize and articulate their strategies, as well as how they manage their tensions with other activist groups and ideologies or even the State. In addition to this, the fact that much of the literature that circulates is written in English and in an Anglophone context, hampers the ability of researchers to come into contact with other experiences of non/monogamies. This article gives a situated account of the rise of the Portuguese polyamorous social movement and shows how interpersonal relationships fundamentally shape the way activism is performed, and how archives are also important in establishing the identity of activists and activist groups. Using data from the Portuguese polyamorous group PolyPortugal, and interviews with high-profile activists, I argue that the idea of a politics of relating (the politicized analysis of how we connect and perform a given ethics of connection) is a conceptually useful tool to think about the transformations of contemporary intimacies, but it is also fundamental to think about how activism is done by people and for people – people who relate to one another, who exist in tension.
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Barnard, Stephen R. "Tweeting #Ferguson: Mediatized fields and the new activist journalist." New Media & Society 20, no. 7 (June 19, 2017): 2252–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444817712723.
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As a hybrid, journo-activist space, tweeting #Ferguson quickly emerged as a way for activists and journalists to network and spread information. Using a mixed-methods approach combining digital ethnographic content analysis with social network analysis and link analysis, this study examines journalistic and activist uses of Twitter to identify changes in field relations and practices. Employing the lenses of field theory and mediatization, this study finds parity and divergence in the themes, frames, format, and discourse of journalist and activist Twitter practices. While the traditions of objective journalism and affective activism persist, notable exceptions occurred, especially following acts of police suppression. The networked communities of professional and activist Twitter users were overlapping and interactive, suggesting hybridity at the margins of the journalistic field. Given the hybridizing of journalistic and journo-activist practices, this case study examines the role of social media in efforts to report on and bolster social change.
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Oden Choi, Judeth, James Herbsleb, Jessica Hammer, and Jodi Forlizzi. "Identity-Based Roles in Rhizomatic Social Justice Movements on Twitter." Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media 14 (May 26, 2020): 488–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7317.
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Contemporary social justice movements can be understood as rhizomatic, growing laterally without a central structure. In this mixed methods study, we investigated the roles that activists develop based on their personal and professional identities and carry with them through the dynamic landscape of rhizomatic social justice movements on Twitter. We conducted interviews with self-identified social justice activists and analyzed seven weeks of their Twitter timeline and retweets. We found three activist roles–organizer, storyteller and advocate–and described the identities, approaches to activism, behaviors on Twitter, and the relationship to social justice movements for each role. We used these roles as a lens to better understand how movement identities are constructed, laid out an agenda for future research on roles in rhizomatic social justice movements and suggested design directions.
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Mischi, Julian. "Working-class politics and cultural capital: Considerations from transformations of the French left." Sociological Review 67, no. 5 (September 11, 2018): 1034–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038026118797832.
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Cultural capital is a relevant and useful concept for analysing working-class activism, provided that it is not reduced to educational capital and particular attention is given to its incorporated forms. Workers acquire resources from activism that may compensate for their paucity of formal educational qualifications, thus allowing them to build an activism-based cultural capital. From this perspective, the activities of workers who become full-time union officers may be considered as activist work, calling on specific skills and offering possibilities for social ascension that set them apart from their former peers still doing manual work. This analysis of such activist promotion is based on long-term fieldwork among unionised railway workers in a rural town in France. This case study addresses transformations in the worker-activist profile, notably in changed logics for forming activism-based cultural capital and weakened ties drawing activists into the political field. Approaching left-leaning activism ‘from below’ ultimately sheds light on how it is being reshaped and the ever-greater separation of trade union and political party spheres. The study also elucidates the expanding divide between the working classes and political elites that can be observed in many European countries, especially in rural areas.
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Rospitasari, Marina. "Youtube as alternative media for digital activism in documentary film creative industry." Jurnal Studi Komunikasi (Indonesian Journal of Communications Studies) 5, no. 3 (November 20, 2021): 665–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.25139/jsk.v5i3.3779.
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The development of the digital world provides ample scope to activists who are also engaged in Documentary Film Industry. In line with the democratic and deliberative spirit, YouTube, one of the social media platforms, has become an alternative media with a strategic positioning to be used by film activists to distribute their works. This research applied literature review and descriptive quantitative content analysis as a methodology. Based on alternative media theory, YouTube is alternative media that filmmakers utilise in the documentary film creative industry. Documentary films are products of the film industry and aspiration, identity struggle, and artistic expression. As a media representation of communication technology, YouTube provides ample opportunities for art activists to convey their critical ideas to voicing marginal groups’ aspirations. Based on reviewing the Watchdoc YouTube account, this research findings that YouTube supports filmmakers to develop interactive documentary and collaborative actions with other strategic stakeholders, such as Production House, NGO, individual activists, social communities, and educational institutions. According to the practising of digital activism, this phenomenon gives another perspective about building an activist network. Activism through the creative documentary industry is not reflected as people mobilisations but building engagement through the product (documentary film).
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Richardson, Brooke, Alana Powell, Lisa Johnston, and Rachel Langford. "Reconceptualizing Activism through a Feminist Care Ethics in the Ontario (Canada) Early Childhood Education Context: Enacting Caring Activism." Social Sciences 12, no. 2 (February 10, 2023): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci12020089.
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While early childhood education (ECE) in Ontario has always had a vibrant social activist community, it is characterized by tensions within and between individuals and institutions at the minor (childcare centres, post-secondary ECE programs) and major (mainstream media, public policy) levels. ECE activism is further complicated by the fact that it often feels impossible/unsustainable within our existing patriarchal, neoliberal political structure. In this paper we, four ECE activists and leaders, turn to feminist care ethics (FCE) to reflect on our own activism experiences and imagine a different way of doing and sustaining activism in ECE. We insist that activism be understood as a relational process that bridges major and minor spaces (and everything in between) in a way that cares about, for, and with all those involved. We enthusiastically invite other to join us on this journey, exploring and navigating the beautiful awkwardness, discomfort, tension, and possibilities in caring for and with each other in major and minor political spaces.
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Alcalde Villacampa, Javier, and Martín Portos García. "Stop Mare Mortum y el movimiento de solidaridad con las personas refugiadas en Barcelona." Empiria. Revista de metodología de ciencias sociales, no. 52 (September 1, 2021): 151–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/empiria.52.2021.31368.
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Durante el largo verano migratorio de 2015 aumentaba de un modo dramático el nivel de conciencia ciudadana y activismo en Barcelona. En la primavera de 2016, cada día tenían lugar eventos de protesta en solidaridad con las personas refugiadas , promovidos por un amplio espectro de grupos locales, asociaciones y redes. En tanto, un cambio en el gobierno local erigía a una otrora activista social como alcaldesa, asumiendo el tema de las personas refugiadas como una prioridad política. Basado en una serie de entrevistas en profundidad con activistas clave, este artículo presenta, mapea y estudia la evolución de las redes activistas locales. Buscando arrojar luz sobre las dinámicas de meso-movilización, analizamos la plataforma Stop Mare Mortum (SMM). Con un alto nivel de politización y centrándose en las personas refugiadas en tránsito, esta iniciativa nacida de una pequeña red de círculos activistas creció hasta convertirse en una plataforma paraguas con gran capacidad para coordinar iniciativas de la sociedad civil. Junto con una combinación única de emociones y marcos de movilización, la habilidad de SMM para adaptar sus estrategias, repertorios de acción y estructuras organizativas a un contexto cambiante explican su capacidad de movilización y el carácter transversal de sus bases. The 2015 long summer of migration has increased dramatically the level of citizen awareness and activism in Barcelona. In Spring 2016 a number of protest events in solidarity with refugees were taking place on a daily basis, promoted by a broad range of local groups, associations and networks. In the meantime, a change of government brought a social activist as the new mayor of the city, with the refugees' issue as a top political priority. Based on a number of in-depth interviews with key activists, this article presents, maps and studies the evolution of the local networks. Aiming at shedding light on meso-level mobilization dynamics, we zoom into Stop Mare Mortum. With a high level of politicization and focusing on refugees in transit, this initiative borne out of a small network of activists has gradually become an umbrella platform aiming to coordinate civil society initiatives within this field. Together with a unique combination emotions and frames for mobilization, SMM’s ability to adapt its strategies, repertoires of action and organizational structures to a changing environment explains its mobilization capacity and the cross-cut nature of its constituency.
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Claybrook, M. Keith. "Africana Studies, 21st Century Black Student Activism, and High Impact Educational Practices: A Biographical Sketch of David C. Turner, III." Journal of Black Studies 52, no. 4 (February 22, 2021): 359–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021934721996366.
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This article examines the relationship between academia and activism. It explores the undergraduate experience of veteran 21st century Black student activist, David C. Turner, III, revealing the foundations of his academic and activist career in higher education. Framed in the context of student engagement and high impact educational practices, this paper argues that 21st century Black student activists are motivated by a belief in a society and world free from overt, insidious, and institutional racism. Furthermore, it argues that activism offers academically relevant learning opportunities. The article draws upon informal conversations and interactions, formal interviews, and Turner’s published and unpublished writings. It chronicles Turner’s undergraduate experiences at CSU, Dominguez Hills majoring in Africana Studies, president of the Organization of Africana Studies, and research and conference opportunities revealing the foundations of his pursuit of cultural grounding, academic excellence, and social responsibility. Furthermore, it highlights the links between intellectual and academic work, with activism and organizing.
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Sefriyono, Sefriyono, and Mukhibat Mukhibat. "Radikalisme Islam: Pergulatan Ideologi ke Aksi." Al-Tahrir: Jurnal Pemikiran Islam 17, no. 1 (May 26, 2017): 205. http://dx.doi.org/10.21154/altahrir.v17i1.815.
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Abstract: The violent actors in Islam known as terrorists ideologically always associated with kalam school which is called Khawarij. They are the fist ortodhox takfiri in Islam and their motto is who did not punish with His law, they were among those unbeliver. This paper with the critical history discusses the religious movement that often called activism with prevalently conflict, the radical movement in islam. Religous social movement can be interpreted with collective awarness who rise up their community for some value, a norm, and social practices in society during a certain period considered to be unfair and oppressive. The movement of the islamic activism in frame of social movement can be understood as fight with mobilization to support interest and the purpose of muslims. Based on the analysis of structure of islamic activism, the study on islamic activism is generally located on three large of domain, i.e. violence and contention, networks and alliance, and culture and framing.الملخص: إن القائمين بعملية العنف في الإسلام المسمّين بالإرهابيّين كانوا يرجعون عقائديّا إلى المذهب في علم الكلام )الخوارج(، الفرقة الأولى .» من لم يحكم بما أنزل الله فهو من الكافرين « للمذهب التكفيري بشعار حاولت هذه المقالة – بالمدخل النقدي التاريخي – دراسة الحركات الدينية أي حركات العنف في الإسلام. إن الحركات الدينية الإجتماعية يمكن أن يُفهم بوجود الوعي الجماعي الناشئ في نفوس المجتمع تجاه القيم و المعايير والعمليّات الإجتماعية الضالّة غير العادلة في مجتمع من المجتمعات في فترات معيّنة. وإن الحركات الإسلامية في ضوء الحركات الاجتماعية يمكن أن يكون له معنى تحريك روح العداوة لدعم فوائد وأهداف الأمة الإسلامية. واعتمادا على التحليل المؤسس على تنظيم الحركة الإسلامية، ة الحركات الإسلامية تقع في ثلات نقاط كبيرة: 1( العنف إن دراس والعداوة، 2( الشبكات والصلات، 3( الثقافة و الصياغة.Abstrak: Para pelaku kekerasan dalam Islam yang dikenal dengan teroris, secara ideolgis selalu dirujuk kepada aliran Kalam dalam Islam yang disebut dengan Khawarij sebagai kelompok takfiri ortodoks pertama dalam Islam dengan motto-nya siapa yang tidak berhukum dengan hukum Allah, mereka itu di golongkan kepada orang-orang kafir. Makalah ini dengan pendekatan kritis-historis mengkaji gerakan keagamaan yang sering disebut aktivisme Islam dalam kelaziman konfliktual yakni gerakan radikal dalam Islam. Gerakan sosial keagamaan dapat dimaknai dengan adanya kesadaran kolektif yang bangkit dalam diri masyarakat terhadap beberapa nilai, norma, dan praktek-praktek sosial di sebuah masyarakat pada periode tertentu yang dianggab tidak adil, menindas. Gerakan sosial/Aktivisme Islam dalam bingkai gerakan sosial bisa dimaknai dengan mobilisasi perseteruan untuk mendukung kepentingan dan tujuan kaum Muslimin. Berdasarkan analisis dengan struktur aktivisme Islam (Structur of Islamic Activisme), kajian terhadap aktivisme Islam umumnya berada pada tiga domain besar yakni, kekerasan dan perseteruan (violence and contention), jariangan dan aliansi (networks and alliances), dan kebudayaan dan pembingkaian (Culture and Framing).
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Ingalsbee, Timothy. "Earth First! Activism: Ecological Postmodern Praxis in Radical Environmentalist Identities." Sociological Perspectives 39, no. 2 (June 1996): 263–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1389312.
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Classical and conventional sociological theories cannot explain social-psychological dynamics in contemporary social movements. A synthesis of symbolic interactionism and New Social Movement theory offers a useful framework for analyzing and interpreting the role of consciousness/identity and culture/lifestyle in new social movements. Movement identifications are social-interactional processes that symbolize collectively constructed cognitive frameworks. Activist identities are forms of collective consciousness that function as symbolic resources in the ongoing mobilization of collective action. Activism in the radical environmentalist Earth First! movement is theorized as an ecological postmodern identity praxis that expresses biocentric, transpersonal ecological consciousness. The identity-constructs of the “Ecological Self” and “Wild Within” are expressed in activists' social gatherings and symbolic direct actions. These movement identifications/activist identities represent symbolic, counter-discursive challenges to technocracy.
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Fine, Michelle, María Elena Torre, David M. Frost, and Allison L. Cabana. "Queer solidarities: New activisms erupting at the intersection of structural precarity and radical misrecognition." Journal of Social and Political Psychology 6, no. 2 (December 21, 2018): 608–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v6i2.905.
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This article investigates the relationship between exposure to structural injustice, experiences of social discrimination, psychological well being, physical health, and engagement in activist solidarities for a large, racially diverse and inclusive sample of 5,860 LGBTQ/Gender Expansive youth in the United States. Through a participatory action research design and a national survey created by an intergenerational research collective, the “What’s Your Issue?” survey data are used to explore the relationships between injustice, discrimination and activism; to develop an analysis of how race and gender affect young people’s vulnerabilities to State violence (in housing, schools and by the police), and their trajectories to activism, and to amplify a range of “intimate activisms” engaged by LGBTQ/GE youth with powerful adults outside their community, and with often marginalized peers within. The essay ends with a theoretical appreciation of misrecognition as structural violence; activism as a racialized and gendered response to injustice, and an elaborated archive of “intimate activisms” engaged with dominant actors and within community, by LGBTQ/GE youth who have been exiled from home, school, state protection and/or community and embody, nevertheless, “willful subjectivities”.
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Kara, Helen. "Identity and power in co-produced activist research." Qualitative Research 17, no. 3 (March 22, 2017): 289–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794117696033.
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Methodologies such as participatory, feminist, or co-produced research aim to democratise research practice. These kinds of methodologies are devised and embraced by activists as they work to shift the balance of power. Activists and researchers can be uneasy bedfellows, and trying to be both activist and researcher can lead to identity confusion and communication problems. Yet within democratic research practice, researchers and others are often required to enact multiple identities. This article will highlight some of the relationships between activism, research, identity and power. An account of an incident that occurred during a piece of co-produced activist evaluation research, which threatened to undermine that research, illustrates some of the relationships between the enactment of multiple identities and power imbalances in the practice of co-produced activist research. The theoretical work of Karen Barad is used as a lens to help elucidate the complexity of this phenomenon and identify what, and how, we can learn from such incidents.
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Selnes, Florence Namasinga, and Kristin Skare Orgeret. "Activism as political action in Uganda: The role of social media." Journal of African Media Studies 12, no. 3 (September 1, 2020): 283–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jams_00025_1.
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The article discusses political activism in Uganda and the role of social media. It focuses on two specific cases, the 2011 ‘Walk-to-Work’ and the 2017 ‘Pads4Girls’ campaigns in order to contribute to better understanding of the ever-evolving dynamic between political activism and the media in such campaigns. A disputed presidential election in 2011 in Uganda prompted opposition politicians to call nationwide protests. The architects of the protests hoped this would eventually lead to the downfall of Museveni’s newly elected government. The ‘Pads4Girls’ campaign on the other hand, was spearheaded by a female academic activist and provoked unprecedented response from politicians across the political divide, activists and unaffiliated individuals who added weight to the campaign. The article’s discussions feed into a broader conversation on the interaction of media and politics in semi-democratic contexts such as Uganda, where attempts to curtail media freedom and freedom of expression are frequent.
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Figeac, Julien, Nathalie Paton, Angelina Peralva, Arthur Coelho Bezerra, Guillaume Cabanac, Héloïse Prévost, Pierre Ratinaud, and Tristan Salord. "Digital participation of left-wing activists in Brazil: cultural events as a cement to mobilization and networked protest." Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies 10, no. 1 (October 2, 2021): 261–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.25160/bjbs.v10i1.125719.
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This research explores how Brazilian activist groups participate in Facebook to coordinate their social struggles, based on a lexical analysis of publications on 529 pages, published between 2013 and 2017. These groups set up two main repertoires of action by mobilizing Facebook as an arena for challenging political action and a tool for coordinating their mobilizations.
This research shows more specifically that artistic expression and the agenda of cultural events are central to these digital action repositories. Publications and conversations related to culture punctuate the ordinary exchange of information between activists, especially during the lulls of social struggles. They structure activist networks on a medium-term basis and contribute to the coordination of social movements by creating the conditions for occasional gatherings, transversal to different types of activism and to various social struggles.
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Sikavica, Katarina, Elise Perrault, and Kathleen Rehbein. "Who Do They Think They Are? Identity as an Antecedent of Social Activism by Institutional Shareholders." Business & Society 59, no. 6 (March 29, 2018): 1228–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0007650318762752.
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Shareholder activists increasingly pressure corporations on social policy issues; yet, extant research provides little understanding of who these activists are and how they choose their corporate targets. In this article, we adopt an activist-centered approach and rely on hybrid organizational identity theory to determine, in a two-phase analysis, how shareholder activists define their economic and social identities and whether these identities are associated with specific target characteristics and tactical strategies. Our findings form the premise of a typology of institutional shareholder activists that is empirically derived and takes into account the wide range of hybrid organizational identities that shareholders exhibit. With a sample of 735 social policy shareholder proposals filed by 104 institutional shareholders in the 2009-2010 period, our study presents one of the first empirical tests examining the heterogeneity of identities within the broad stakeholder category of “social shareholder activists.” Our empirical evidence demonstrates that these shareholders’ mix of economic and social identities is systematically related to their targets’ characteristics and tactical strategies. The implications of our new typology for research on shareholder activism and the value of our findings for managers conclude this article.
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Reynolds (Taewon Choi), Jason D., Bridget M. Anton, Chiroshri Bhattacharjee, and Megan E. Ingraham. "The work of a revolutionary: A psychobiography and careerography of Angela Y. Davis." Europe’s Journal of Psychology 17, no. 3 (August 31, 2021): 198–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejop.5507.
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Dr. Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, academician, and writer who has navigated and discussed issues of race, class, gender, and USA social policies across her 75 years of life. Davis’s activism established her as the icon of a larger social movement and further related to her decision-making and legacy. Using psychobiographical methods, data were gathered through publicly available sources to explore Davis’s personal, professional, and representational life, as well as understand Davis’s lived experience through a socio-cultural-historical perspective. Two established theories, Social Cognitive Career Theory and Politicized Collective Identity model, were applied to Davis’s life. Findings suggested that in addition to her unique intersectional identities, a confluence of factors including growing up in a family of activists, incarceration, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) surveillance, Communist Party involvement, marginalization within activist spaces, and practicing radical self-care impacted Davis committing to a life as an activist, academic, and the leader of a social movement.
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Kelly, Patrick William. "The 1973 Chilean coup and the origins of transnational human rights activism." Journal of Global History 8, no. 1 (February 18, 2013): 165–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1740022813000090.
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AbstractThe 1973 Chilean coup gave rise to an unprecedented growth in a global human rights consciousness. In its aftermath, transnational activists from a diverse array of political and ideological backgrounds found common cause – indeed, a common language of human rights – in campaigns to ameliorate the repressive acts of the Chilean military junta. This article focuses on two models of activism in particular: Amnesty International, whose 1973 investigative mission set the terms of the global debate about human rights in Chile; and transnational solidarity activists, especially Chilean exiles from leftist parties, whose vision of social activism narrowed as their interest in human rights surged. These campaigns – while not without tensions over the role of politics in the moral appeal to human rights – both articulated a transnational discourse of human rights and created new activist techniques to foment moral outrage by revealing the prevalence of torture through the power of personal testimony.
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King, Debra. "Operationalizing Melucci: Metamorphosis and Passion in the Negotiation of Activists' Multiple Identities." Mobilization: An International Quarterly 9, no. 1 (February 1, 2004): 73–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.17813/maiq.9.1.v813801745136863.
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Activists need to construct and manage multiple identities as activists, as well as negotiate their activist identities in relation to identity positions in other social realms such as paid work or parenting. This research is an empirical application of Melucci's concept of metamorphosis to the processes through which committed activists manage identity work. Metamorphosis facilitates an understanding of how activists maintain a sense of continuity through changes in identity. From life-history interviews with twenty long-term Australian activists this research operationalizes the four concepts associated with metamorphosis: being present or "in the moment," taking responsibility for action, being reflexive, and having a rhythm for managing the identity process. The analysis of these concepts demonstrates the need to extend understandings of identity to incorporate non-instrumental aspects of cognition, such as emotion, the body, and passion. These facilitate an activist's capacity to metamorphose, and therefore manage various aspects of identity construction. Activism is therefore sustained when activists can maintain their passionate participation in creating social change, regardless of circumstances, rather than simply enhancing their commitment to a particular organization.
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Chenou, Jean-Marie, and Carolina Cepeda-Másmela. "#NiUnaMenos: Data Activism From the Global South." Television & New Media 20, no. 4 (February 22, 2019): 396–411. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527476419828995.
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This article explores the creation of a national index of sexist violence in Argentina in 2016 as an example of data activism in the Global South. Drawing upon a qualitative content analysis of press coverage and activist posts on social media, as well as interviews with activists, it describes the context of the #NiUnaMenos feminist mobilization and the collection “from below” of data on gender violence. This study illustrates how activists in the Global South can appropriate technology and promote new uses that not only respond to their local and immediate needs but also contribute to the production of alternative imaginaries on big data in the longer term. Moreover, the article positions women’s movements as an essential component of current social movements in Latin America.
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Huddart Kennedy, Emily, John R. Parkins, and Josée Johnston. "Food activists, consumer strategies, and the democratic imagination: Insights from eat-local movements." Journal of Consumer Culture 18, no. 1 (July 11, 2016): 149–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1469540516659125.
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Scholars remain divided on the possibilities (and limitations) of conceptualizing social change through a consumer-focused, “shopping for change,” lens. Drawing from framing theory and the concept of the democratic imagination, we use a case study of “eat-local” food activism to contribute to this debate. We ask two questions: first, how do activists in the local food movement come to diagnose and critique the conventional industrial food system? and second, what roles do they envision for participants in the sustainable food movement? We address these questions by drawing from activist interview data (n = 57) and participant observation of the eat-local movement in three Canadian cities. Our findings illuminate a mixed picture of possibilities and limitations for consumer-based projects to foster social change. On the one hand, the diagnostic frames presented by food activists suggest skills in critical thinking, attention to structural injustice, and widespread recognition of the importance of collective mobilization. This framing suggests a politically thick democratic imagination among eat-local activists. In contrast, when it comes to thinking about prescriptions for change, activist understandings draw from individualistic and market-oriented conceptualizations of civic engagement, which indicates a relatively thin democratic imagination. These findings demonstrate that despite the sophisticated understandings and civic commitment of movement activists, the eat-local movement is limited by a reliance on individual consumption as the dominant pathway for achieving eco-social change.
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Maher, Thomas V., Morgan Johnstonbaugh, and Jennifer Earl. "“ONE SIZE DOESN'T FIT ALL”: CONNECTING VIEWS OF ACTIVISM WITH YOUTH ACTIVIST IDENTIFICATION*." Mobilization: An International Quarterly 25, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 27–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.17813/1086-671x-25-1-27.
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Identity is crucial to social movement participation. Existing research examines why active people “avoid” activist identities but has less to say about how active people adopt such identities as if they automatically follow participation. We draw on interviews with high school and college students from a midsize southwestern city to examine how young people make sense of what it means to be an activist, who identifies as such, and why youth are willing—or unwilling—to adopt this label. We find that respondents' conceptualizations of “activists” are critical to (non)identification. Those who see activism as a broad category are more likely to identify, holding constant their level of activity. Those who see activism as a greedy institution, requiring significant substantive fluency, making the issue their primary focus, and willingness to sacrifice, do not, despite their level of engagement. Our findings have implications for identity formation and movement participation more broadly.
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Гудзенко, О. З. "Social activism as a practice of forming networked social movements." Grani 22, no. 11 (November 28, 2019): 47–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.15421/10.15421/171997.
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This paper proposes a theoretical interpretation of social activism and its role in the practices of forming networked social movements. In today’s information society, the importance of solidarity practices for agents in social networks is increasing. The terms «activism», «online activism», «activism», «communication activism», «media activism», «collectivism» and so on have become widespread. They are used as markers of new practices for shaping social and political activist movements in social networks. However, the issue of social activism is not a sufficiently relevant topic in sociology. Discussions regarding the place and role of social activism in the practices of network social movement formation are more popular than scientific. Technological innovations of the information society have influenced forms of social interaction, communication, and solidarity of different levels of the agency. They transform and create innovative modes of social activism - from networking resources to collaborative activities to art-activism. Social networks are an active dynamic configuration space for various forms of social activism because they contain constantly updated information content created by network community agents in the form of comments, replies, likes, posts, and more. Networks are becoming a practical mechanism for social consolidation amid a crisis of legitimacy and trust in government. There is a shift in the practices of social and political activist movements into the internet space and social networks. The problem of new social movements has become especially relevant in recent years in connection with the proliferation of protest movements in the globalized society, which require relevant theoretical and methodological principles to study them. The paper deals with the consideration of social activism from the standpoint of the theory of the information society of M. Castels, the pragmatic sociology of L. Boltanski and L. Teweno and the theoretical developments of G. Reingold and S. Harrebi.
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Jupp, Eleanor. "Home space, gender and activism: The visible and the invisible in austere times." Critical Social Policy 37, no. 3 (February 1, 2017): 348–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261018317693219.
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This article argues for the centrality of the home in understanding both the impacts of ‘austerity’ in the UK and potential activist responses. The article focuses on gendered forms of activism, particularly among low-income women. Empirical material is drawn from research with women in different contexts, a network of migrant women in London and a group of community activists in Stoke-on-Trent, in order to identify three particular registers of home-based and, by extension, community activism, including notions of ‘the everyday’, ‘the inbetween’ and experiences of trauma. There is also a brief discussion of housing activism in contemporary London in order to explore how such analysis might be applied to other forms of organising. There is a call for more sustained consideration of these often hidden forms of activism from researchers in understanding, as well as intervening in, the dynamics of contemporary social policy and governance.
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Kaur Luthra, Sangeeta. "Remembering Guru Nanak: Articulations of Faith and Ethics by Sikh Activists in Post 9/11 America." Religions 12, no. 2 (February 10, 2021): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12020113.
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This paper explores the role of activism as an inflection point for engagement with religious and cultural identity by younger generations of Sikhs in the US. The response of young Sikh activists and the effects on the community are examined in the context of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in the US. The paper begins with the reflections of a Sikh activist about her personal journey learning about Sikh faith and history, and her activism and personal interests. Important themes that reflect the attitudes of contemporary Sikh activists and organizations are discussed. The effects of the post-9/11 backlash against Sikhs in the US are compared to Guru Nanak’s experiences of and response to violence, strife, and injustice. The social, psychological, and spiritual benefits of service for those who provide service and care are explored in relation to Sikh philosophy, and from the point of view of contemporary cultural and historical studies of Sikh seva (selfless service) and humanitarianism. The paper concludes that many Sikhs, particularly those coming of age in the late 20th and early 21st century, often referred to as millennial and Generation Z, view social justice activism, humanitarianism and Sikh seva as central and equal to other pillars of Sikhism like worship and devotional practices.
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Putraji, Zulfi I. "Aktivisme Twitter: crowdsourcing melalui tagar #100jutamaskerchallenge." Jurnal Komunikasi Profesional 6, no. 4 (August 31, 2022): 303–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.25139/jkp.v6i4.4521.
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The development of internet technology has become an important part in social and political movements. Social media is an important channel for the digital activism movement in the information era. This study examines the hashtag (#) in driving digital opinion and how hashtags act as a crowdsourcing platform, the method used is virtual ethnography by collecting tweet data related to the hashtag #100JutaMaskerChallenge. The concept of digital activisim and crowdsourcing used to analyze this digital phenomenon. The results of the study shows hashtags as an important factorfor digital activists in gathering information and trigger a movement in the real world.
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Ophélie, Véron. "(Extra)ordinary activism: veganism and the shaping of hemeratopias." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 36, no. 11/12 (October 10, 2016): 756–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijssp-12-2015-0137.
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Purpose Literature on social movements increasingly identifies everyday life as significant to understand political practices and activism. However, scholars have retained a major bias towards movement mobilisation and collective action, often relegating the everyday at the margins of social movements. While there have been notable exceptions, with studies of prefigurative activism and everyday practices of social change, they have usually focussed on alternative community spaces such as autonomous social centres and protest camps, and paid less attention to “ordinary” practices and spaces of activism. The purpose of this paper is to address these problems by suggesting that everyday life may be central to the production of activist spaces and the action of social movements. Design/methodology/approach Drawing upon ethnography methods, interviews with vegan activists, an on-line survey of supporters of vegan movements and an examination of on-line vegan forums, it seeks to analyse the practices of the vegan movement in France. Findings This paper attempts to demonstrate that prefigurative activism and seemingly banal practices may be central to strategies for social change. Drawing on an anarchist perspective on activism, it further suggests that activism and everyday life should not be studied in isolation from each other but as mutually constitutive in the creation of everyday alternative spaces – hemeratopias. Originality/value This paper adds to the literature on activism and social movements by offering a more complex picture of the spatial politics at work in social movements and a better understanding of individual action and mobilisation.