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권, 지윤. "UNDERSTANDING INSIDER MOVEMENTS." Muslim-Christian Encounter 9, no. 1 (2016): 161–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.30532/mce.2016.03.9.1.161.
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Seckler, Tom W. "Majority World theologizing: Muslim background believer perspectives regarding insider movements." Missiology: An International Review 46, no. 1 (2018): 86–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091829617738228.
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In recent decades, the phenomenon of “insider movements” has emerged as a significant component of Christian ministry to Muslims especially. Insider movements are complex, controversial, and the subject of much academic debate. Most of the scholars writing on insider movements do not come from a Muslim background. While they have added much to the academic discussion, it is also important to hear from scholars and practitioners who themselves come from a Muslim background. They are living as Christ-followers, often in Muslim contexts, and are wrestling with and forming their own opinions of insider movements, even as they seek to theologically evaluate them with scriptural truth. This paper explores the perspectives of several Muslim background believers in Christ regarding insider movements and is based on an examination of their published writings and interviews. It highlights and summarizes a portion of those writings, reveals a diversity of perspectives on the subject, and seeks to represent the voices and varied opinions of the authors about insider movements.
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Anderson, Christian J. "World Christianity, ‘World Religions’ and the Challenge of Insider Movements." Studies in World Christianity 26, no. 1 (2020): 84–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/swc.2020.0283.
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While studies in World Christianity have frequently referred to Christianity as a ‘world religion’, this article argues that such a category is problematic. Insider movements directly challenge the category, since they are movements of faith in Jesus that fall within another ‘world religion’ altogether – usually Islam or Hinduism. Rather than being an oddity of the mission frontier, insider movements expose ambiguities already present in World Christianity studies concerning the concept of ‘religion’ and how we understand the unity of the World Christian movement. The article first examines distortions that occur when religion is referred to on the one hand as localised practices which can be reoriented and taken up into World Christianity and, on the other hand, as ‘world religion’, where Christianity is sharply discontinuous with other world systems. Second, the article draws from the field of religious studies, where several writers have argued that the scholarly ‘world religion’ category originates from a European Enlightenment project whose modernist assumptions are now questionable. Third, the particular challenge of insider movements is expanded on – their use of non-Christian cultural-religious systems as spaces for Christ worship, and their redrawing of assumed Christian boundaries. Finally, the article sketches out two principles for understanding Christianity's unity in a way that takes into account the religious (1) as a historical series of cultural-religious transmissions and receptions of the Christian message, which emanates from margins like those being crossed by insider movements, and (2) as a religiously syncretic process of change that occurs with Christ as the prime authority.
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Lutz, Naama. "A Game of Whac-A-Mole." Israel Studies Review 37, no. 3 (2022): 58–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/isr.2022.370304.
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Abstract This article focuses on the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement's utilization of ‘fluidity,’ conceptualized as the ability to adapt campaign tactics to multiple arenas and political opportunity structures simultaneously. Framing BDS as both a social movement and a transnational advocacy network, it demonstrates the movement's fluidity in the context of three campaigns: the campaign at the 65th FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) congress in 2015, which illustrates an ‘outsider’ strategy aimed at intergovernmental institutions; the 2014 Olive Declaration of municipalities endorsing BDS, which illustrates how local ‘insider’ campaigns can combine to create a translocal campaign; and the ‘Ferguson-Gaza moment’ in 2014, which illustrates how movements can engage at the level of civil society and embed themselves in the broader global justice movement.
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Schwander, Hanna. "Labor Market Dualization and Insider–Outsider Divides: Why This New Conflict Matters." Political Studies Review 17, no. 1 (2018): 14–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1478929918790872.
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Reflecting the importance of inequality for individuals’ lives, the implications of labor market inequality for core elements of democracy are crucial topics in comparative politics and comparative political economy. This article critically reviews the main findings of the emerging literature on insider–outsider divides to highlight its possible contributions to adjacent fields, in particular the research on party politics, the literatures on economic voting, political participation, and democratic representation or the study of social movements. The conflict between labor market insiders and outsiders demonstrates that in today’s societies with their diversified risk structure and sophisticated welfare states, distributive conflicts are about specific social and regulatory policies that have different implications for individuals depending on their situation on the labor market. By drawing our attention to new divides within the social democratic electorate, the insider–outsider literature reveals an additional argument why the social democratic parties find it hard to mobilize their voters and to win elections. Moreover, the insider–outsider literature can help to bring the economic dimension of politics back to the study of social movements and to light on the relationship between contentious and conventional politics.
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Gleig, Ann. "Researching New Religious Movements from the Inside Out and the Outside In." Nova Religio 16, no. 1 (2012): 88–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2012.16.1.88.
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Drawing on my own fieldwork experiences with the transnational Integral Yoga community, this essay offers some reflections on two possible approaches to bridging insider-outsider perspectives in the study of new religious movements. First, I consider Gerald Larson's suggestion of a “relationship of mutual reciprocity” between researcher and religious community. Second, I discuss the value of a participatory approach that attempts to integrate engaged participation with critical distance in the study of religion. I use my collaborative experience co-authoring an academic article on Sri Aurobindo and the contemporary yoga scene with an Integral Yoga practitioner to argue that while Larson's reciprocal enterprise risks either sacrificing critical concerns to apologetic agendas, or polarizing the insider as apologetic and the outsider as reductive, a participatory approach proposes a way to put insider-outsider perspectives into a more creative relation.
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Richard, H. L. "New paradigms for religion, multiple religious belonging, and insider movements." Missiology: An International Review 43, no. 3 (2015): 297–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091829614565844.
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Mallios, William. "DYNAMIC MODELING FORECASTS OF EQUITY PRICE MOVEMENTS IN CASES OF INSIDER TRADING." Journal of Prediction Markets 6, no. 1 (2012): 1–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.5750/jpm.v6i1.494.
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Case studies examine the extent to which insider trades in financial markets are a reflection of publicly-based forecasts based on (1) candlestick charts and (2) adaptive drift modeling (ADM) of cointegrated time processes depicted in such charts. ADM accommodates both gradual Darwinian-type market drift and punctuated Gould-Eldridge-type drift associated with market volatility. Covariates in ADM may include mosaic variables, currently a main line of defense for those accused of insider trading. Empirical studies suggest varying degrees of uncertainty in distinguishing between legitimate and illegitimate trading in terms of resulting price movements.
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Bereni, Laure, and Anne Revillard. "Movement Institutions: The Bureaucratic Sources of Feminist Protest." Politics & Gender 14, no. 3 (2018): 407–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x18000399.
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AbstractOver the past several decades, scholarship on women's movements, feminism, and the state has brought renewed attention to the study of protest politics by questioning its frontier with dominant institutions. This article takes this critique a step further by considering the institutional dimension of the state-movement intersection. Drawing on the French case, we argue that institutions that are formally devoted to women's rights inside the state (women's policy agencies) can operate asmovement institutions—that is, as bureaucratic instances routinely engrained with a protest dimension—rather than being only a shelter for a network of insider activists. As such, they can provide a specific, institutional feminist socialization to their members; they can purvey, rather than only relay, feminist protest, and they can deploy institutional repertoires of protest, combining bureaucratic and movement dimensions. We conclude that the definition and boundaries of the women's movement need to be broadened to include bureaucratic sources of feminist protest.
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Jain, Pawan, and Mark A. Sunderman. "Stock price movement around the merger announcements: insider trading or market anticipation?" Managerial Finance 40, no. 8 (2014): 821–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/mf-09-2013-0256.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the stock price movements for existence of informed trading prior to a merger announcement for the companies listed on the emerging markets of India for the period from 1996 to 2010. Design/methodology/approach – This study applies several event study methodologies and regression analyses to analyze the stock price movement surrounding a merger announcement. The paper divides mergers in two different types: industry merger cases and non-industry merger cases and in two different time periods: recession and boom. Findings – The results show that the information held only by insiders’ works its way into prices. The paper finds strong evidence of insider trading in the case of industry mergers and mergers during recessions. Practical implications – The results from this study have immediate policy implications for India and other developing markets as the paper provides the type of mergers and time periods when merger announcements are more susceptible to insider trading. Originality/value – The paper extends the literature on mergers and insider trading by analyzing firms trading on a developing capital market, which, unlike the developed markets, is characterized by inadequate disclosure and a weaker enforcement of securities regulations. The results support this notion and recommend Indian securities market regulators to tighten the lax regulations. In addition, the author document the divergence in price reaction to the merger announcements for different types of mergers: industry mergers and non-industry mergers, as well as for mergers during different market conditions: recession vs booming capital markets.
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Walgrave, Stefaan. "'Maatschappelijk draagvlak' als alibi : macht en tegenmacht inzake milieubeleid op het middenveld." Res Publica 39, no. 3 (1997): 331–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.21825/rp.v39i3.18581.
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Social, political and commercial organisations are stakeholders in the environmental policy decision making. Their mobilised power and counter power determine to a large extent the content of the decisions taken. Lately, the environmental movement in Flanders has grown stronger in members, professionals, financially,... but it remains relatively weak in comparison with the traditional, strong and aften pillarised intermediary organisations like unions, farmers and employers organisations. Especially its limited informal access tothe policy makers is incomparable with the exclusive and privileged access of those big organisations. Nevertheless the environmental movement is becoming a policy insider instead of an outsider, but this threatens the movements independence and its movement functions.
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Yong, Amos. "Book Review: Understanding Insider Movements: Disciples of Jesus within Diverse Religious Communities." International Bulletin of Mission Research 40, no. 2 (2016): 188–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2396939316641673.
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QUIÑONES, JAVIER FERNANDO. "EL DELITO DE INSIDER TRADING EN ALEMANIA." YachaQ Revista de Derecho, no. 9 (December 28, 2018): 72–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.51343/yq.vi9.715.
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El autor realiza un estudio del tipo penal de Insider Trading en Alemania, revisando los antecedentes históricos, la normativa interna y comunitaria, resaltando los aspectos altamente técnicos de la prohibición, así como a las corrientes que aún hoy critican su existencia. Así mismo, se menciona el efecto de las investigaciones fiscales y sanciones que, si han tenido lugar en Alemania, destacando que la prohibición tiene efectos reales en los mercados.
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 The author does a study related to the criminal law prohibition of Insider Trading in Germany, reviewing the historical backgrounds, the intern and European community regulation, and highlighting the highly technical aspects of the criminalization, as well as the movements that still now critic its existence. Also, is mentioned the effect of the prosecutions and sanctions that had taken place in Germany, showing that the criminalization has real effects in the markets.
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Essamuah, Casely B. "Book Review: William A. Dyrness. Insider Jesus: Theological Reflections on New Christian Movements." Missiology: An International Review 45, no. 4 (2017): 464–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091829617716458g.
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Croft, Richard M. "Insider Jesus: Theological Reflections on New Christian Movements, written by William A. Dyrness." Mission Studies 35, no. 1 (2018): 161–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341555.
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Orton, Naomi, and Liana de Andrade Biar. "Horizontality and gender in contemporary social movements." Narrative Inquiry 30, no. 2 (2020): 236–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.19045.ort.
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Abstract The notion of horizontal, “structureless” organisation continues to hold resounding appeal for those seeking to create more egalitarian societies. Given horizontality’s comfortable status as the golden child of contemporary social movements, in this article we ask to what extent symmetrical relations may materialize discursively within an ostensibly horizontal group. To do so, we analyse two narratives of resistance which emerge during a meeting of bicycle advocates in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Uniting insider and outsider perspectives, our analysis suggests that gendered asymmetries are simultaneously contested and reified during the activists’ narrative and interactional practice. As such, this study highlights the need to take a critical stance towards discursive practice in order to further understand the construction of horizontality. In so doing, it may then be possible to build communities which foster minority groups’ active participation and the very transformative practice sought out by those who engage in social movements.
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Hedley, Scott. "Book Review: A Theological Analysis of the Insider Movement Paradigm from Four Perspectives: Theology of Religions, Revelation, Soteriology, and Ecclesiology and Insider Movements: Biblically Incredible or Incredibly Brilliant." Missiology: An International Review 41, no. 3 (2013): 349–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091829613488497e.
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Salazar, Debra J., and Donald K. Alper. "Reconciling Environmentalism and the Left: Perspectives on Democracy and Social Justice in British Columbia's Environmental Movement." Canadian Journal of Political Science 35, no. 3 (2002): 527–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008423902778347.
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The article examines how political ideas of environmentalists support as well as impede relations between the environmental movement and other progressive movements. This requires examination of the role and meaning of social justice and democracy in the discourse of environmentalism. This study focuses such an examination on a sample of environmental activists in British Columbia. Q methodology is used to discern patterns of association between particular sets of environmental ideas, and beliefs and values related to democracy and social justice. The authors identify four environmental/political perspectives: alienated ecocentrism, civic communitarianism, insider preservationism and green egalitarianism. These perspectives share a perception of justice focused on fair democratic procedures. Fairness is linked to inclusion and equal treatment.
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Reitsma, Bernhard J. G. "The Jew a Jew, the Muslim a Muslim?" European Journal of Theology 30, no. 1 (2021): 143–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/ejt2021.1.008.reit.
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Summary This article deals with an Islamic criticism that Paul in 1 Corinthians 9 is professing religious dissimulation – in Islam called Taqiyya – and that in Islamic contexts throughout history missionaries, and the so-called Insider Movements in particular, have adopted this as their missionary strategy. Paul seems to change his religion from Jew to Gentile and vice versa in order to trick people into Christianity. A more careful reading of this passage in context, however, shows that Paul primarily emphasizes the essence of the Christian faith while he is willing to give up anything that might hinder people from seeing God in Christ. He never denies his full allegiance to Jesus Christ and the cross, and is even willing to suffer for this confession. He is not dishonest about it, but he merely makes everything subordinate to this essence of the gospel. The author discusses the consequences of this conclusion for contextual missiology and the Insider Movements in relation to the Missio Dei. Zusammenfassung Der vorliegende Artikel befasst sich mit der islamischen Kritik, dass Paulus in 1. Korinther 9 eine bewusste religiöse Verschleierung bekundet – im Islam wird dies Taqiyya genannt – und dass im islamischen Kontext durch die Geschichte hindurch Missionare und besonders die sogenannte Insiderbewegung diese als ihre missionarische Strategie angewandt haben. Paulus wechselt scheinbar seine Religion von jüdisch zu christlich und umgekehrt, um die Menschen zu überlisten, sich zum christlichen Glauben zu bekehren. Jedoch zeigt eine etwas sorgfältigere Lesart dieses Abschnitts im Kontext, dass Paulus in erster Linie das Wesen des christlichen Glaubens hervorhebt, während er bereit ist, jedwede Sache aufzugeben, welche die Menschen abhalten könnte, Gott in Christus zu erkennen. Niemals leugnet er seine uneingeschränkte Loyalität Jesus Christus und dem Kreuz gegenüber, ja er ist vielmehr bereit, für sein Glaubensbekenntnis zu leiden. Paulus ist diesbezüglich nicht unehrlich, doch er ordnet nur alles diesem Wesen des Evangeliums unter. Der Autor erörtert die Konsequenzen dieser Schlussfolgerung für eine kontextuelle Missiologie und die Insiderbewegung in Zusammenhang mit der Missio Die. Résumé Cet article traite d’une critique faite par les musulmans à l’encontre de Paul qui, en 1 Corinthiens 9, enseigne la dissimulation (Taqîya dans l’islam) dans le domaine religieux et des missionnaires – des Insider Movements en particulier – qui, dans un contexte musulman, ont de tout temps fait de cette pratique une stratégie missionnaire. Paul donne l’impression de passer d’une religion à l’autre – juif un jour, païen le lendemain, et vice-versa – dans le but d’attirer les gens dans le christianisme par la ruse. Mais une lecture plus attentive de ce chapitre replacé dans son contexte montre que Paul met avant tout l’accent sur l’essence même de la foi chrétienne, tout en affirmant qu’il est prêt à renoncer à tout ce qui pourrait empêcher l’un ou l’autre de voir Dieu en Christ. Il ne nie jamais sa totale allégeance à Jésus-Christ et à la croix et se dit même prêt à souffrir pour cette confession. Il n’est pas malhonnête à ce sujet; simplement, il subordonne toute chose à l’essence de l’Évangile. L’auteur étudie les conséquences de cette conclusion pour la missiologie contextuelle et le rapport entre les Insider Movements et la Missio Dei.
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Ghori, Faisal. "The Management of Islamic Activism." American Journal of Islam and Society 23, no. 1 (2006): 115–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v23i1.1651.
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In his first book, The Management of Islamic Activism, Quintan Wiktorowiczexamines the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis throughthe lens of social movement theory. Unlike some political scientists who dismissIslamic movements because of their informal networks, Wiktorowiczcontends that social movement theory is an apt framework through whichIslamic movements can be examined and studied. In this regard, his workleads the field. Yet for all its promise, this book largely fails to deliver.The book is divided into four primary sections, through which he tries toconstruct his conclusion: Jordanian political liberalization has occurredbecause of structural necessities, not because of its commitment to democratization.In addition, the state has been masterful in what he dubs the “managementof collective action,” (p. 3) which has, for all practical purposes, stifledany real opposition. While his conclusion is certainly tenable, given hisextensive fieldwork, the book is poorly organized and much of the evidenceexamined earlier in the work leaves many questions unanswered.The first chapter focuses rather heavily on the advent of Jordanian charitableNGOs and the state bureaucracy’s ability to effectively manipulate and control them. Although a key component of his argument is that the statebureaucracy has hampered and controlled the functionality of IslamicNGOs, he fails to explain what distinguishes Islamic NGOs from their counterparts.He clarifies: “The activities at most Islamic NGOs in Jordan do notdiffer substantially from those of secular and non-Islamic voluntary organizations”(p. 85). If this is correct, then what differentiates Islamic NGOsfrom non-Islamic NGOs? He explains: “What differentiates Islamic NGOsfrom their secular counterparts is … the volunteers’ beliefs that they are promotingIslam through their work. It is an insider belief in the mission, morethan the activities themselves, that distinguishes them” (p. 85) It is quiteremarkable that Wiktorowicz was privy to this “insider” belief. In a Muslimnation such as Jordan, it is hard to imagine that Islam is not a motivating factorin charitable work to some extent. The author argues that the statebureaucracy hampers Islamic NGOs, but is this indeed the case, or does thebureaucracy hamper all NGOs equally? This question remains unasked andunanswered. He would have us believe that the state bureaucracy has takenit upon itself to control Islamic NGOs, but does not thoroughly differentiatethem from the non-Islamic NGOs ...
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Lin, Chien-Chung, and Huan-Ting Wu. "How to test an insider trading law and its effectiveness: Price movements and comparative empirical data from Taiwan." International Review of Law and Economics 57 (March 2019): 22–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.irle.2018.11.002.
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Anderson, Christian J. "Book Review: Contextualization or Syncretism? The Use of Other-Faith Worship Forms in the Bible and in Insider Movements." International Bulletin of Mission Research 46, no. 4 (2022): 606–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23969393221102912.
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Bennett, Matthew. "Book Review: Ayman Ibrahim and Ant Greenham. Muslim Conversions to Christ: A Critique of Insider Movements in Islamic Contexts." Missiology: An International Review 48, no. 2 (2020): 209–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091829620924616b.
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Mulinari, Diana, and Nora Räthzel. "Politicizing Biographies: The Forming of Transnational Subjectivities as Insiders Outside." Feminist Review 86, no. 1 (2007): 89–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400336.
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We take our own life stories as points of departure to look at some of the ways in which women were politicized in Argentina and West Germany (our respective countries of origin), focusing on similarities as well as differences in our politicization processes. We aim at putting present discussions about global political movements into a historical perspective. We want also to illuminate the centrality of political identities in the construction of specific (gendered) subjectivities. Our focus lies on theorizing the ways through which privileged (gendered) identities critically re-read their own position and transform their own understanding of themselves and the world through the field of the political. Methodologically, we want to contribute to ways of re-thinking Feminist methodologies by experimenting with a form of analysis in which we are alternately the subject and the object of our research process. The aim of this intervention is to transgress the binary oppositions between researcher/researched and challenge traditional understanding of social science where researchers provide analysis and informants have ‘experience’. One of our conclusions is that the 68 movement provided subject positions for living alternative normalities as an ‘insider-outside’, that is, for those who belonged to normalized groups in their respective societies, but for different reasons (of which we analyse some concerning our formation as ‘women’) could not identify with the dominant normalities offered to them. At the same time, the dominant male instrumentality of the movement estranged (some) women and allowed them (or forced them into) a kind of distanced engagement that, perhaps paradoxically, provided a basis for sustaining their political subjectivities through transformative experiences of defeat.
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Rousmaniere, Kate. "Insider and Outsider, Community and Conflict: Elizabeth Cecil Wilson’s transnational experiences as a Progressive American woman educator." Historia y Memoria de la Educación, no. 17 (December 18, 2022): 235–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/hme.17.2023.32543.
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This essay takes a feminist educational biographical approach to the transnational life and work of the American educator Elizabeth Cecil Wilson (1913-1994). Central to this interpretation is the way in which Wilson’s life exemplifies the concept of “internal exile” as a result of her transnational movements in China, Korea, and the United States. Wilson’s early experiences with internationalism, all-women’s education and American progressive education shaped her interpretation of her later work in educational administration, leading her to develop a unique perspective about being both an “insider” and an “outsider” in her world. Raised in a variety of close and strongly identified communities, in her later professional life she experienced a sense of isolation and displacement in the structured hierarchical environments of international organizations and American state school systems. Late in life, she articulated this challenge in feminism when she argued for women’s inclusion in formal educational leadership.
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Hovi, Tuija. "Praising as bodily practice: the neocharismatic culture of celebration." Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis 23 (January 1, 2011): 129–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67384.
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Rhythmic body movements and dancing, as well as singing, have been used as a means and inspiration for both individual and communal spiritual experience throughout the history of religions. This article takes a tentative look at the contemporary neocharismatic culture of celebration as a means of aiming at religious experience through collective bodily practice; namely praising, which is generally understood to take the form of singing but is, in fact, expressed also in bodily movements such as dancing. In the neocharismatic context, a celebration means a certain type of a meeting with a special focus on contemplative worship and prayer, accompanied with lively music of praise. First, the historical background of the neocharismatic branch is outlined shortly. Secondly, the tradition of praise itself within this context is described – what are the insider definitions and what kinds of forms praise in the culture of celebration actually includes, especially in Finland. The description is basically based on internet material and the author's previous field experiences in the Word of Life congregational meetings and other charismatic Christian events. In conclusion, acts of praise as a source of religious experience are discussed.
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Seitz, Jonathan A. "Book Review: Boundless: What Global Expressions of Faith Teach Us about Following Jesus, Insider Jesus: Theological Reflections on New Christian Movements." International Bulletin of Mission Research 41, no. 2 (2017): 184–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2396939317694138.
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Blanco, Elena, and Anna Grear. "Personhood, jurisdiction and injustice: law, colonialities and the global order." Journal of Human Rights and the Environment 10, no. 1 (2019): 86–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/jhre.2019.01.05.
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Set against the colonial and neo-colonial unevenness of the globalized neoliberal order, this article offers a critical reading of legal personhood and jurisdiction as mechanisms of privilege and predation. Transnational corporations (TNCs) are, we suggest, the ultimate insider construct for the neoliberal capitalist-techno order. Meanwhile, increasing numbers of corporeal human beings on the move as the marginalized products of that same order (especially refugees and migrants) are confronted by boundaries and barriers all too material in their effect. In an age of anxiety-driven border hardening against mass human migration and of seamless, instantaneous movements of transnational capital and corporate location across jurisdictional boundaries, we examine the patterns of injustice implicated in and between these phenomena, tracing a Eurocentric logic visible in the complex continuities between coloniality, capitalism and the production of precarity in the Anthropocene.
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Durazzi, Niccolo, Timo Fleckenstein, and Soohyun Christine Lee. "Social Solidarity for All? Trade Union Strategies, Labor Market Dualization, and the Welfare State in Italy and South Korea." Politics & Society 46, no. 2 (2018): 205–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0032329218773712.
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Challenging the new political-economic “mainstream” that considers trade unions to be “complicit” in labor market dualization, this article’s analysis of union strategies in Italy and South Korea, most-different union movements perceived as unlikely cases for the pursuit of broader social solidarity, shows that in both countries unions have successively moved away from insider-focused strategies and toward “solidarity for all” in the industrial relations arena as well as in their social policy preferences. Furthermore, unions explored new avenues of political agency, often in alliance with civil society organizations. This convergent trend toward a social model of unionism is ascribed to a response of unions to a “double crisis”: that is, a socioeconomic crisis, which takes the form of a growing periphery of the labor market associated with growing social exclusion, and a sociopolitical crisis, which takes the form of an increasing marginalization of the unions from the political process.
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Tan, Kang-San. "The Inter-Religious Frontier." Mission Studies 31, no. 2 (2014): 139–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341330.
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The article explores the phenomenon of Christians who seek to maintain forms of multiple religious identity. It offers a dual-belonging theology from an Evangelical missiological perspective, with special reference to Christian and Buddhist traditions. The article seeks to offer some trajectories whereby softer forms of dual religious identity may not be incompatible with Evangelical faith. It uses theology of religion as a framework for understanding the phenomenon of multi-religious belonging. First, various types or expressions of multi-religious belonging are described in order to provide a more precise tool for analyzing various forms of religious belonging. Secondly, some of the apparent issues surrounding insider movements are framed in relation to the three typologies of pluralism, inclusivism and exclusivism, demonstrating how different paradigms in the theology of religions raise different sets of questions, add new perspectives and hopefully contribute toward theological clarity on some pastoral or mission issues. Finally, some brief considerations are offered for building a dual-belonging theology.
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Simmons, Beth A., Paulette Lloyd, and Brandon M. Stewart. "The Global Diffusion of Law: Transnational Crime and the Case of Human Trafficking." International Organization 72, no. 2 (2018): 249–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020818318000036.
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AbstractIn the past few decades new laws criminalizing certain transnational activities have proliferated: from money laundering, corruption, and insider trading to trafficking in weapons and drugs. Human trafficking is one example. We argue that criminalization of trafficking in persons has diffused in large part because of the way the issue has been framed: primarily as a problem of organized crime rather than predominantly an egregious human rights abuse. Framing human trafficking as an organized crime practice empowers states to confront cross-border human movements viewed as potentially threatening. We show that the diffusion of criminalization is explained by road networks that reflect potential vulnerabilities to the diversion of transnational crime. We interpret our results as evidence of the importance of context and issue framing, which in turn affects perceptions of vulnerability to neighbors' policy choices. In doing so, we unify diffusion studies of liberalization with the spread of prohibition regimes to explain the globalization of aspects of criminal law.
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Haugen, Mari Romarheim. "Investigating Music-Dance Relationships." Journal of Music Theory 65, no. 1 (2021): 17–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00222909-9124714.
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Abstract This article studies the rhythm of Norwegian telespringar, a tradition with an intimate relationship between music and dance that features a nonisochronous meter; that is, the durations between adjacent beats are unequal. A motion-capture study of a fiddler and dance couple revealed a long-medium-short duration pattern at the beat level in both the fiddler's and the dancers' periodic movements. The results also revealed a correspondence between how the fiddler and the dancers executed the motion patterns. This correspondence suggests that the performers share a common understanding of the underlying “feel” of the music. The results are discussed in light of recent theoretical perspectives on the multimodality of human perception. It is argued that the special feel of telespringar derives from embodied sensations related to the dance and how music and dance have developed in tandem over time. The study advocates a holistic view of music and dance, the importance of insider experience, and the role of embodied experience in guiding our understanding of the music as such.
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Sinha Roy, Mallarika. "Inside/out: women’s movement and women in movements." South Asian History and Culture 9, no. 4 (2018): 420–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2018.1535544.
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Haas, Liesl. "The Women's Movement Inside and Outside the State. By Lee Ann Banaszak." Perspectives on Politics 9, no. 4 (2011): 885–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537592711003793.
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In this impressively researched and thought-provoking book, Lee Ann Banaszak explores the role of “movement insiders”—women's movement activists working inside the federal bureaucracy—in shaping policy on women's rights. Through a series of engaging narratives, she highlights the often-invisible role of feminist lawyers, regulators, other members of the civil service, and political appointees in shaping important policies on such issues as equal employment, educational equity (particularly Title IX), and foreign policy (women in development). Banaszak's investigation into the role of feminist activists within the bureaucracy illuminates the critical role that the movement played within the state on a number of policy issues. More broadly, her argument for an expanded view of the dynamics of social movements, movement–state intersections, and policymaking represents a needed corrective to the rather stark dichotomies that often dominate the study of social movements.
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Trivedi, Poonam. "In and out of Othello." Indian Theatre Journal 5, no. 1 (2021): 137–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/itj_00021_1.
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Othello has been the play that seems to speak to current issues of racism and sexism for the last couple of decades. Recent Indian productions have stretched its relevancies further, particularly addressing the politics of identity, of individual and state, of belonging and othering. The 2014 award-winning Assamiya film Othello (We Too Have Our Othellos) appropriates and radicalizes the main concerns of the play to embody and critique the movements for self-determination that continue to rage in the state. The article examines this unusual Indian adaptation of Shakespeare that locates the play directly within the public sphere of the politics of the state through its singular focus on Othello as an ‘outsider’ figure paralleled by other such figures of contemporary Assamese society. It will contextualize the discussion of this film, its production and positioning within the film industry of Assam and attempt to define the nature of its adaptation. It will also glance at its similarities with the earlier film In Othello (2003), which too connected Shakespeare and Assam to illustrate the volatile configurations of the outsider/insider status in contemporary India.
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Chakravarty, Debjani. "Strata and Strategies of Teaching about the Global “Other” Using Critical Feminist Pedagogical Praxis." Teaching & Learning Inquiry 7, no. 2 (2019): 90–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.7.2.6.
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In this paper I analyze the way “globalization” is deployed in U.S. universities as a value-addition. I explore issues of teaching about the global “other,” as well as the “third world” and other unfamiliar, objectified spaces. Through critical discourse analysis of syllabi I outline some representational and pedagogical trends. I also draw from my experience of teaching globalization-focused courses, including courses on transnational feminisms, international literature, social movements, migrations and socio-economic exchanges to undergraduate students. Teaching about "the other" often leads to a multiplier effect of "othering" within the classroom. Using transnational feminist perspectives, I argue that teaching such classes, on "global" "transnational" or "international" women, gender, sexuality and feminisms require de-centering not just dominant paradigms but also of oneself as purveyor of insider/global knowledge. I also argue, like many others before me, that a classroom can serve as a site for epistemic injustices and colonizing acts, and we must attempt to find ways in which such neo-colonial damages can be mitigated. This paper is an exercise in finding some ways to de-center and decolonize dominant discourses on the global "other” and suggest critical and compassionate pedagogical strategies.
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Kahraman, Turhan, Derya Ozer Kaya, Tayfun Isik, Sukriye Cansu Gultekin, and Barbara Seebacher. "Feasibility of motor imagery and effects of activating and relaxing practice on autonomic functions in healthy young adults: A randomised, controlled, assessor-blinded, pilot trial." PLOS ONE 16, no. 7 (2021): e0254666. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254666.
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Introduction Motor imagery (MI) is the mental rehearsal of a motor task. Between real and imagined movements, a functional equivalence has been described regarding timing and brain activation. The primary study aim was to investigate the feasibility of MI training focusing on the autonomic function in healthy young people. Further aims were to evaluate participants’ MI abilities and compare preliminary effects of activating and relaxing MI on autonomic function and against controls. Methods A single-blinded randomised controlled pilot trial was performed. Participants were randomised to the activating MI (1), relaxing MI (2), or control (3) group. Following a MI familiarisation, they practiced home-based kinaesthetic MI for 17 minutes, 5 times/week for 2 weeks. Participants were called once for support. The primary outcome was the feasibility of a full-scale randomised controlled trial using predefined criteria. Secondary outcomes were participants’ MI ability using the Movement Imagery Questionnaire-Revised, mental chronometry tests, hand laterality judgement and semi-structured interviews, autonomic function. Results A total of 35 participants completed the study. The feasibility of a larger study was confirmed, despite 35% attrition related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Excellent MI capabilities were seen in participants, and significant correlations between MI ability measures. Interview results showed that participants accepted or liked both interventions. Seven major themes and insider recommendations for MI interventions emerged. No significant differences and negligible to medium effects were observed in MI ability or autonomic function between baseline and post-intervention measures or between groups. Conclusions Results showed that neither activating nor relaxing MI seems to change autonomic function in healthy individuals. Further adequately powered studies are required to answer open questions remaining from this study. Future studies should investigate effects of different MI types over a longer period, to rule out habituation and assess autonomic function at several time points and simultaneously with MI.
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Balliger, Robin. "Painting over precarity: Community public art and the optics of dispossession, gentrification and governance in West Oakland, CA." Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 8, no. 1 (2021): 81–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jucs_00035_1.
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Large-scale arts-led urban regeneration strategies are typically distinguished from the grassroots authenticity of community art projects, but this article examines how the trope of community facilitates gentrification in Oakland, California. Community murals of the 1960s to 1990s played a critical social role by making visible minority concerns and galvanizing movements for social justice, but questions emerge about contemporary community art in relation to neoliberal values and urban precarity. The Black neighbourhood of West Oakland has been resistant to gentrification due to decades of disinvestment and through robust activism against displacement in one of the most progressive cities in the United States. Based on longitudinal ethnographic research and situated visual analysis, I show how neighbourhood resistance was only overcome when change appeared to come from the ‘community’ itself, through the specific imagery and spatiality of community mural projects that resignify the neighbourhood to accommodate gentrification. I critique gentrification as a dualistic insider and outsider dynamic; such structural analysis elides ‘community’ as a contested category that may be complicit with urban restructuring. Real-estate interests also appropriate signifiers of ‘community’ to reshape neighbourhood identity, valorize property, and police public space. I argue that in West Oakland the ‘community mural’ is vertically integrated in municipal and capital logics that serve to dis-embed, rather than support, historic neighbourhood populations.
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DeCelles, Katherine A., Scott Sonenshein, and Brayden G. King. "Examining Anger’s Immobilizing Effect on Institutional Insiders’ Action Intentions in Social Movements." Administrative Science Quarterly 65, no. 4 (2019): 847–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0001839219879646.
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We theorize that anger incited by a social movement, which has a mobilizing effect among outsider activists, might immobilize collective action intentions for institutional insiders—those sympathetic to the movement and employed by its target. We conducted initial field surveys across a spectrum of social movements, including Occupy Wall Street and #metoo, as well as those related to business sustainability and gun control, which showed that institutional insiders are often just as angry as outsider activists. But the evidence from those surveys did not show that social movement anger translated into collective action intentions among institutional insiders. We tested our theory deductively with an experiment conducted with participants who were supportive of social movement issues in their organizations. Overall, our results show that anger about a social movement issue relates to greater collective action intentions among outsider activists but not among institutional insiders. Instead of anger emboldening institutional insiders to act despite the potential costs, anger triggers fear about the potential negative consequences of collective action in the workplace, which in turn results in withdrawal. While social movements often rely on anger frames to mobilize sympathizers, our work suggests that this practice may paradoxically cause fear that immobilizes those uniquely positioned to be able to influence organizations to change.
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Hunt, Edmund R., Roland J. Baddeley, Alan Worley, Ana B. Sendova-Franks, and Nigel R. Franks. "Ants determine their next move at rest: motor planning and causality in complex systems." Royal Society Open Science 3, no. 1 (2016): 150534. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150534.
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To find useful work to do for their colony, individual eusocial animals have to move, somehow staying attentive to relevant social information. Recent research on individual Temnothorax albipennis ants moving inside their colony’s nest found a power-law relationship between a movement’s duration and its average speed; and a universal speed profile for movements showing that they mostly fluctuate around a constant average speed. From this predictability it was inferred that movement durations are somehow determined before the movement itself. Here, we find similar results in lone T. albipennis ants exploring a large arena outside the nest, both when the arena is clean and when it contains chemical information left by previous nest-mates. This implies that these movement characteristics originate from the same individual neural and/or physiological mechanism(s), operating without immediate regard to social influences. However, the presence of pheromones and/or other cues was found to affect the inter-event speed correlations. Hence we suggest that ants’ motor planning results in intermittent response to the social environment: movement duration is adjusted in response to social information only between movements, not during them. This environmentally flexible, intermittently responsive movement behaviour points towards a spatially allocated division of labour in this species. It also prompts more general questions on collective animal movement and the role of intermittent causation from higher to lower organizational levels in the stability of complex systems.
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Tan, Kang-San. "Dual Belonging: A Missiological Critique and Appreciation from an Asian Evangelical Perspective." Mission Studies 27, no. 1 (2010): 24–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157338310x497973.
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AbstractMulti-religious belonging is a phenomenon of individuals who identify themselves as followers of more than one religious tradition. People of faiths may find themselves in dual or multi-religious backgrounds due to inter-religious marriages of parents, exposures to multi-religious traditions or conversions to another faith. In Asia, there is a growing phenomenon of insider movements or devotees of Jesus from other religious traditions such as Islam and Hinduism. Previously, Christian theology has tended to treat non-Christian religions as tight and separate religious systems. Such a treatment is increasingly problematic as it does not reflect the multi-religious realities in Asia where influences and cross fertilization of religious beliefs are daily faith experiences. In particular, there is a need to take into account the experiences and struggles of Christian converts from Asian religions, namely, the converts’ own relationship with their previous faiths.The paper seeks to explore the notion of multi-religious belonging and evaluate whether it is theologically possible for a Christian to follow Christ while retaining some form of identification with one’s previous religion such as Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism or Chinese religions. Instead of a total rejection of past faiths, is it possible for a Christian, without falling into syncretism, to belong to more than one religious tradition?Firstly, the paper will evaluate three models of multi-religious belonging. Secondly, after discussing some methodological considerations, we will explore whether dual belonging is syncretistic. Finally, we hope to suggest a critical and missiological appreciation of dual belonging.
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Hoover, Elizabeth. "“Fires were lit inside them”." Review of International American Studies 12, no. 1 (2019): 11–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/rias.7391.
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The language of fire has sometimes been used in illustrative ways to describe how social movements spark, flare, and sometimes sputter out. Building on recent scholarship about protest camps, as well as borrowing language from environmental historians about fire behavior, this article draws from ethnographic research to describe the pyropolitics of the Indigenous-led anti-pipeline movement at Standing Rock—examining how fire was used as analogy and in material ways to support and drive the movement to protect water from industrial capitalism. Describing ceremonial fires, social fires, home fires, cooking fires, and fires lit in protest on the front line, this article details how fire was put to work in myriad ways in order to support the movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), and ensure social order and physical survival at the camps built to house supporters of the movement. This article concludes with descriptions of how these sparks ignited at Standing Rock followed activists home to their own communities, to other struggles that have been taken up to resist pipelines, the contamination of water, and the appropriation of Indigenous land.
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Guan, Wei, Aiden Lockwood, Beverley J. Inkson, and Günter Möbus. "A Piezoelectric Goniometer Inside a Transmission Electron Microscope Goniometer." Microscopy and Microanalysis 17, no. 5 (2011): 827–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s143192761100050x.
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AbstractPiezoelectric nanoactuators, which can provide extremely stable and reproducible positioning, are rapidly becoming the dominant means for position control in transmission electron microscopy. Here we present a second-generation miniature goniometric nanomanipulation system, which is fully piezo-actuated with ultrafine step size for translation and rotation, programmable, and can be fitted inside a hollowed standard specimen holder for a transmission electron microscope (TEM). The movement range of this miniaturized drive is composed of seven degrees of freedom: three fine translational movements (X,Y, andZaxes), three coarse translational movements along all three axes, and one rotational movement around theX-axis with an integrated angular sensor providing absolute rotation feedback. The new piezoelectric system independently operates as a goniometer inside the TEM goniometer.In situexperiments, such as tomographic tilt without missing wedge and differential tilt between two specimens, are demonstrated.
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Carmo-Fonseca, Maria. "How genes find their way inside the cell nucleus." Journal of Cell Biology 179, no. 6 (2007): 1093–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200711098.
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Recent progress in live cell imaging suggests a role for nuclear actin in chromatin movement. In this issue, for the first time, a gene locus moving toward a subnuclear compartment was tracked. Motion of the locus is actin dependent, raising the question of whether chromatin movements are random or directed.
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Bloom, Jack M. "Political Opportunity Structure, Contentious Social Movements, and State-Based Organizations: The Fight against Solidarity inside the Polish United Workers Party." Social Science History 38, no. 3-4 (2014): 359–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ssh.2015.29.
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Studies of social movements have often focused on the role of the state vis-à-vis social movements—in recent times using the concept of political opportunity structure to understand the options available to social movements. This article examines the internal conflicts within the ruling party in Communist Poland to show that a reciprocal process proceeded, in which both the social movement and the state found the choices of action available to them limited by the other, rather than just the social movement. The social upheaval that impacted the entire country brought about the rise of a reform movement within the ruling Polish United Workers Party, which prevented the government from acting as it preferred for a significant period of time. That reform movement, which would not have existed without Solidarity and certainly would not have brought about intraparty changes by itself, saw itself as connected to and dependent upon Solidarity. Party conservatives had to respond to and overcome the reformers before they could turn their full attention to ending the challenge Solidarity presented to the Communist system. In effect, for a time, Solidarity limited the political opportunity structure of the state, while the reverse was also true. While social movement scholars have long considered the possibilities and the limits on possibilities available to social movements because of the state or other external circumstances, this experience demonstrates that similar considerations must sometimes be contemplated with respect to the state.
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Vondráček, David. "Dohnányi und die Tradition Das Klavierquintett Nr. 2 es-Moll, op. 26 (1914)." Studia Musicologica 59, no. 3-4 (2018): 301–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/6.2018.59.3-4.3.
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Abstract Dohnányi's Second Piano Quintet in E-flat minor was written in 1914 and is less well-known than his first one dating from 1895. The composer has been called a traditionalist, so it is worth examining how tradition appears in this work. The outer movements of the three-movement-form are both elegiac and weighty. The beginning bears the key signature of E-flat major instead of minor, but the keys are changing rapidly as the piece progresses. This is reminiscent of Franz Schubert or of Antonín Dvořák, for instance in his Piano Quartet (op. 87) inspired by Brahms. The third movement's opening is a homage to Beethoven's late String Quartet in A Minor (op. 132). While the latter works on a sub-thematic level, Dohnányi presents an elaborated theme in fugal technique, which in 1914 was a more conservative approach than Beethoven's in 1825. For Dohnányi, the symmetric structures are not a way out of traditional tonality (unlike for Bartók, who also frequently used symmetries), but rather are a way of extending it. The formal concept is no less interesting. The recapitulation of the first movement's material within the third is evocative of the double-function form used by Franz Liszt. While Liszt conflated the traditional multi-movement form into a new one-movement form, Dohnányi – so to speak – concealed the characteristics of the new one-movement form inside a traditional three-movement form. Thus, one could ask if the accusations against Dohnányi for being a traditionalist are justified. Perhaps instead we should reconsider how traditionalism and modernity are situated in our own set of aesthetic values.
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Ślósarski, Bartosz. "Władza społeczna — alternatywa w czasach kryzysu." Kultura i Społeczeństwo 59, no. 4 (2015): 23–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.35757/kis.2015.59.4.2.
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This article provides a comparative analysis of the functioning of direct democracy within two social movements, operating in different socio-cultural conditions: the American student movement of the 1960s, and the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) move ment of 2011. The author assumes that the idea of direct democracy is evolving in terms of tactics and consistently developing in the course of succeeding social movements and struggles. To prove the point, the author analyzes student counter-culture organizations and OWS in regard to their relation to violence, the idea of alternative governance by the social movement, human relations inside the movement, and the concept of the enemy in respect to which the alternative is being formed.
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Williams, R. J. P. "Some examples of the functions of metal ions in biology." Bioscience Reports 8, no. 6 (1988): 653–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf01117344.
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The ways in which certain inorganic elements are used in essential roles within biological systems generally are described. The two roles stressed are (1) electrolytic charge movements and (2) electronic charge movement. The value of helical proteins inside and outside membranes as mechanical coupling devices is analysed.
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Abers, Rebecca Neaera, Federico M. Rossi, and Marisa von Bülow. "State–society relations in uncertain times: Social movement strategies, ideational contestation and the pandemic in Brazil and Argentina." International Political Science Review 42, no. 3 (2021): 333–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192512121993713.
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This article compares how COVID-19 affected state–society relations differently in two relatively similar countries: Brazil and Argentina. Bringing together social movement theories and ideational institutionalism, we argue that variation in responses to the COVID-19 pandemic is explained by the different roles played by social movements inside and outside government and by contrasting ideational disputes. The extreme uncertainty introduced by the pandemic generated intense contestation about the meaning of the crisis and how to resolve it. In Brazil, progressive social movements not only were excluded from the government coalition, but also had to combat a powerful discourse that denied the existence of a crisis altogether. Such denialism did not flourish in the same way in Argentina, where progressive social movements were part of national government processes. The result was that in Argentina, movement–government dynamics revolved around constructing long-term policy proposals, whereas in Brazil movements focused on short-term emergency responses.
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Karimi, Sedigheh. "The Virtual Sphere and the Women’s Movement in Post-Reform Iran." International Journal of Contemporary Research and Review 9, no. 05 (2018): 20430–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.15520/ijcrr/2018/9/05/509.
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The rapid development of Internet and communication technologies raises the question of what role these media and communication interfaces play in social and political movements and development in individual countries. Although activities in cyberspace, including blogging, participation in social networks and other facilities provided by the Internet for its users are a new phenomenon, they have profound effects on social and political relations in the communities involved. In the information era, Internet is an important part of social movements in democratic societies and local communities. When the government blocks other ways to mobilization, Internet may bring like-minded people together and help them to find support for action. Internet has provided a new space for social movements and the effect of the virtual activities of the users on the actions and, often on the lack of social movements is of high importance.
 Meanwhile, the Iranian women’s movement, like other social movements in contemporary Iran, realizes the impact and position of cyberspace and has made use of it. Many activists, for whom other ways for expressing their demands have been blocked, have entered this space and taken advantage of it for expressing their opinions and communicating information to other people. In fact, the dominant socio-political forces and the atmosphere of repression, and fear have led many Iranian women to use the virtual space to campaign for women’s empowerment and equal rights. They have realized that the Internet may inform the outside world of the movement’s goals and activities and facilitate maintaining contact with other members of the movement. In fact, the open space that provides a platform for sharing information and has given the chance to the Iranian women’s rights activists to perform their activities in a space with a decentralized structure where there is less pressure than there is in the real world. Campaigns formed following the cyberspace market boom indicate that cyberspace has indeed ushered in a new era in the history of the Iranian women’s movement.
 The present study provides an analysis of the role of the Internet in the activities of the women’s movement and explores the extent to which cyberspace has been assisting the women’s movement in achieving its objectives. By interviewing 50 active women inside Iran, the article investigates whether there has been successful interaction between cyberspace and the Iranian women’s social movement resulting from a dynamic adaptation between functions of social and political groups in the real world and the virtual world. It also examines how factors such as social participation, increasing awareness, changing beliefs, traditional views of women and social mobility have been affected by the application of the Internet, and whether cyberspace has been able to make women’s voices heard in Iran’s patriarchal society.