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2. Civilisation et discourse sociaux en classe de langue (Civilization and Social Discourse in Second Language Class).
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Beacco, Jean-Claude
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A discussion of the second-language classroom as a fertile environment for cultural contact looks at the teacher's role and the instructional potential of various kinds of social discourse, including classroom communication, the social sciences, official and nonofficial reports, surveys, mass media, social action, and signs and symbols. (MSE)
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- 1993
3. ILY Newsletter = Bulletin AIA. Jan./Feb.--Nov. 1990.
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Movement for Canadian Literacy, Ottawa (Ontario).
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This document consists of the four issues of the "ILY Newsletter" issued during 1990. The January/February issue, "The Book Voyage," reports on the International Literacy Year (ILY) project in which a series of books travels around the world and people who have recently learned to read and write express messages in the books, to share with others around the world. The Canadian Book Voyage was launched in Ottawa on January 25, 1990. "Book Voyage Update" is the focus of the April issue, followed by "National Training Event for Literacy Students Stresses Lobbying, Activism" in the July issue. The final issue (November) highlights "Canada Post Corporation and Literacy." Articles are included on regional and international conferences, proposed Canadian taxes, theater, local activities, training, a community newspaper, illiteracy and poverty facts, a poster contest, resources, a literacy survey, older adults, literacy project funding, dropouts, and illiteracy as a health issue. Each issue is written in both English and French. (LB) (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse on Literacy Education)
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- 1990
4. Jouir de souffrir, ou la société du fouet.
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Hardouin-Zanardi, Willem
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- 2024
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5. Ruth Pakaluk. Putting Talent at the Service of God, Family, and Community
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John F. Coverdale
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family ,pro-life ,activism ,personal apostolate ,Religion (General) ,BL1-50 ,Doctrinal Theology ,BT10-1480 - Abstract
Ruth Pakaluk converted to Catholicism shortly after graduating from Harvard University. Several years later, both she and her husband joined Opus Dei. Ruth poured her extraordinary talent into caring for her large family, personal apostolate, and working to improve society through pro-life activism and support of anti-hunger programs and other social causes. She died of cancer at 41 years of age.
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- 2024
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6. Les questions féministes dans les revues occitanistes des années 1968 : entre revendications et négociations.
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Courgeon, Camille
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CULTURAL movements ,FEMINISTS ,NEGOTIATION ,FEMINISM ,ACTIVISM ,SOCIAL movements - Abstract
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- 2024
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7. Mobiliser la langue pour faire entendre la périphérie : étude comparée des mouvements nationalitaires bretons et sorabes au prisme de leurs revendications linguistiques.
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Toutous, Jeanne
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POWER (Social sciences) ,POLITICAL science ,RADICALS ,NATIONALISTS ,ACTIVISTS - Abstract
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- 2024
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8. Combattre les assignations à l’engagement: Stratégies de résistance de journalistes minorisé·es.
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LOUAZON, ELENA
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POWER (Social sciences) ,JOURNALISTS ,LGBTQ+ people ,DEONTOLOGICAL ethics ,ACTIVISM - Abstract
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- 2024
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9. Espace, discours et identité féministes sur Instagram. Modes de construction d'un soi féministe dans les profils Instagram: propositions méthodologiques.
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JOSEPH, Tiago and BOUKO, Catherine
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IDENTITY (Psychology) ,GROUP identity ,FEMINISTS ,ACTIVISM ,SELF - Abstract
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- 2024
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10. Militer pour l’agriculture périurbaine : le projet CARMA sur le Triangle de Gonesse
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Paula Macé Le Ficher
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controversy ,periurban agriculture ,urban development projects ,agri-food systems relocation ,activism ,Geography (General) ,G1-922 - Abstract
The article investigates changes undergoing in the relations between urbanism and agriculture in the particular frame of urban development projects – a collective process that materialises into new urban areas – and in a context of increasing public interest about food system relocation, urged by civil society mouvements. Through the case of the activist project “CARMA”, on the Triangle de Gonesse, the paper reveals the tensions and hybridisations that result from a decade of controversy centered on the place of agriculture in urban production. Hybridisations involve mental frameworks about the future of both food systems and urbanism in a context of ecological crisis, urban stakeholders and professional practices and, eventually, urban morphology. They also caracterise the strategies underlying the relations between activists and institutional players, which range from confrontation to interpellation and negociation. These hybridisations should not, though, hide the persistence of a “developer ethos” that still does not look at agriculture in equal terms with a territorial development based on urbanisation.
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- 2024
11. Ne plus se laisser prendre à leurs Jeux.
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Anaïs Bohuon and Lucie Pallesi
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sport competition ,intersex ,transidentity ,dual gender classification ,activism ,History (General) and history of Europe - Abstract
Today recognized with embarrassment by sports institutions, intersex and trans-identity would fundamentally call into question a basic principle of competition according to which the gender bicameralization would guarantee equity, especially for the women category. From both a scientific and a sociocultural point of view, the management of gender identity by sports authorities is very insufficient. The recent and publicized cases of trans or intersex women excluded from competitions shake up the hitherto inflexible logic of sexual duality and renew the controversy. Because they are the first victims of the mechanisms for maintaining the system of gender bicategorization in sport, some intersex and trans athletes create a counter-discourse to the hegemonic one of equity. In the 1970s and 1980s, the exclusion of certain athletes led them to use the reasoning of institutions on the supposed «natural» physical inferiority of women to be rehabilitated. In the 2010s, a more assertive form of activism emerged with the mobilization of legal tools from athletes challenging the rules of federations restricting their participation, in particular the maximum testosterone levels imposed in the women’s category.
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- 2023
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12. Hay Baykar (« Lutte arménienne »),périodique protestataire arménien dans le sillage de Mai 68
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Sophie-Zoé Toulajian
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diaspora ,connected histories ,activism ,circulations ,May ’68 ,History (General) and history of Europe ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
This article analyzes Hay Baykar (“Armenian Struggle”), an Armenian leftist periodical, first published in France in the 1970s, from a dual theoretical perspective: social history (here of the Armenian diaspora) and social movements (here of post-’68 mobilizations, according to the latest historiography). The article proposes to read this protest paper as an archetype of connected history. On the one hand, Hay Baykar possesses many typical features of French far-left enteprises – notably high cultural potential participants. On the other hand, Hay Baykar interconnects aspects of the endogenous heritage of the Armenian struggle with the exogenous experience of international radicalism, especially by reappropriating Marxism and Third-Worldism. Piecing together the diasporic, national, local aspects, this diachronic study of Hay Baykar unveils a periodization of the underlying Armenian Liberation movement and therefore reflects on the multiple temporalities that nurture diasporas.
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- 2023
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13. Perceptions Versus Reality of QAnon Radicalization: A Comparative Study
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Brett Burton and Sophia Moskalenko
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qanon ,radicalization ,activism ,perceptions ,aris ,conspiracy theories ,Political science ,Political science (General) ,JA1-92 - Abstract
The online following of conspiracy theory believers known as QAnon has recently come into focus of U.S. government agencies and terrorism scholars, raising questions about the risk of violence it poses. To address these questions, as well as to triangulate existing research on QAnon’s threat, the present study compared survey responses about actual radical intention and activist intention scores of QAnon supporters (n = 113) and non-QAnon participants (n = 287), relative to QAnon’s radicalization as perceived by non-QAnon participants. Actual radical intention scores for QAnon supporters were significantly lower than the perceptions of QAnon radical intentions, and were not significantly different than the actual radical intention scores for non-QAnon participants. Activist intention scores were lowest among QAnon supporters, followed by non-QAnon supporters, and then by perceptions of QAnon activist intentions. The implications of the results for public policy are discussed.
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- 2023
14. Politicization of rural youth in socio-environmental activism (Mendoza, Argentina)
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Carla Daniela Rosales
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rural youth ,activism ,natural commons. ,Education - Abstract
The purpose of this paper is the recent process of youth politicization of the self-convened children (LPA) in a rural territory within the framework of the socio-environmental struggle. Specifically, the department of San Carlos in the province of Mendoza (in the Uco Valley) where almost two decades of struggle and resistance against polluting mega-mining have been taking place there, using Provincial Law 7722 as a legal shield. The law, threatened since its enactment, brings together the great Assembly for Pure Water (AMPAP) supported by various social organizations "united for water". We will deal with LPA as an autonomous group and generator of claims that come to renew the field of socio-environmental activism, specifically feminism and a new debate on natural commons. This is an exploratory work, carried out in a pandemic, with a qualitative design, which is part of youth studies, also rural and with contributions from political ecology. We will analyze central aspects of the politicization process, mainly its deployment until its advance in the local government of San Carlos with the achievement of the creation of an Environmental Observatory in 2021, a pioneering experience in Mendoza.
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- 2023
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15. Anti-fracking mobilisation and the 'ordinance movement' in Argentina
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Tobias Etienne-Greenwood and Luis Gabriel Escobar Blanco
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fracking ,activism ,collective action ,law ,Vaca Muerta ,Argentina ,Social Sciences - Abstract
This paper presents a sociological and legal analysis of a mode of action – municipal regulations promulgation – within a legal repertoire of action employed by opponents to Vaca Muerta’s unconventional hydrocarbon formation exploitation using the technology known as hydraulic fracturing (fracking). The inductive approach favoured here (textual analysis and comparison of the ordinances, information collection through semi-structured interviews) seeks to demonstrate that the choice of such a mode of action responds, on the one hand, to structural constraints of a political-legal nature and, on the other, reflects an attempt to foster a biocentric turn that is rooted in reflexive activist practices.
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- 2023
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16. L’historiographie au prisme de la série. When We Rise : histoire intime, histoire politique, histoire en mouvement
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Audrey Haensler
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history ,memory ,When We Rise ,historiography ,archive ,activism ,Visual arts ,N1-9211 ,Communication. Mass media ,P87-96 - Abstract
This article intends to explore the reciprocal influence between History and TV series through a close reading of When We Rise (ABC, 2017), a mini-series which deals with fifty years of LGBTQ activism in the United States. It aims to show that the series goes beyond a mere representation of the unknown – if not untold – history of the struggle for LGBTQ rights, in the way it questions the neutrality of the historian, the credibility of his or her sources, and the validity of interpretations based on archives that are always incomplete. As such, When We Rise presents itself as an alternative, queer history made by and for those who lived through it, displaying an acute awareness of the struggles yet to come.
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- 2023
17. Education for environmental citizenship and activism through the development of nature-based solutions with pre-service teachers
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Elisabete Linhares and Pedro Reis
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education for environmental citizenship ,activism ,nature-based solutions ,climate change and loss of biodiversity ,pre-service teacher education ,Special aspects of education ,LC8-6691 ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
• The use of nature-based solutions in the promotion of the environmental citizenship. • Nature-based solutions as a valuable resource towards empowerment for action. Purpose: The study aims to assess the implementation of an intervention program that combines nature-based solutions with an environmental citizenship pedagogical approach for pre-service teachers. The research questions revolve around the educational potentials and challenges of this intervention. To our knowledge, no previous studies resorted to this combination to organize courses for initial teacher training. Design/methodology/approach: For this qualitative and interpretative case study, data was obtained through focus groups. 30 pre-service teachers of the Basic Education Course (training kindergarten and primary school teachers) in Portugal participated in the intervention. The transcripts of the focus groups’ content were subjected to categorical qualitative content analysis. Findings: According to the participants, the implemented approach contributed to the development of a better understanding of the complexity of the environmental issues addressed, and of critical thinking skills. The pre-service teachers recognized the educational potential of nature-based solutions in the promotion of their environmental citizenship and activist competences and of the pedagogical knowledge necessary for its implementation.
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- 2023
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18. Political Engagement by ‘apolitical’ Female European Lawyers: The International Federation of Women Judges and Lawyers, 1928 – 1956
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Sara L. Kimble
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women history ,legal and juridical profession ,internationalism ,activism ,jus gentium ,Social Sciences - Abstract
In 1929, the International Federation of Women Judges and Lawyers became an affiliated organization eligible to lobby delegates at the League of Nations. This transnational legal sorority was dedicated to universal legal reform to address the fundamental problem of sex inequality under the law. The female jurists were part of an interwoven transnational movement seeking to establish a feminist jurisprudence based on equity. Despite global vicissitudes of the interwar era, they called upon the authority of the state and international law to protect the vulnerable, ameliorate suffering, and institute equity.
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- 2023
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19. Ce n'est pas technique, c'est politique: les disputes dans le domaine du droit d'auteur au Brésil.
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de Medeiros Albrecht, Nayara F. Macedo
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ACTIVISM , *INTELLECTUAL property , *COPYRIGHT , *GOVERNMENT policy , *DISCOURSE analysis - Abstract
Public policies regarding copyright and related rights affect a varied range of stakeholders with different views about intellectual property. The research literature mentions frequently two coalitions: one defending broader access to works and another focusing on the enforcement of intellectual property. Nonetheless, the reality is more complex than this division as both coalitions are heterogeneous. Users, authors, record labels, and digital services have often dissonant views and different opportunities in influencing government decision-making. This paper aims at bringing reflections upon the political mobilization of members from creative industries, as well as the power they hold in the debates about copyright law in Brazil. The goal is to identify the coalitions in this field, their political stances, and their opportunities to influence public decisions. Besides discussing the philosophy of intellectual property, I approach political theories related to lobbying and interest groups, with a focus on its impacts on democracy. The methodology refers to a case study in which I employed research techniques such as document research and discourse analysis. Through an analysis of speeches at the chamber of deputies, I identified the main groups and coalitions and the stances they defended. Then, I compared the claims they presented during public hearings to political outcomes. The goal is to analyze the stances or perspectives adopted by the members of parliament. Interviews with key stakeholders complemented this analysis. I discuss the relations between these agents and the State to evaluate which groups had more success in persuading government decisions. I argue that copyright and related rights are part of a field in which there are several political disputes, although some lawyers may insist that intellectual property is a "technical subject". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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20. La mise en langage de l’écologie par les ingénieurs militants
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Antoine Bouzin
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language ,engineering ,ecology ,carbon frugality ,activism ,politicization ,Social Sciences - Abstract
This article looks at the language used by French engineers involved in militant organisations to express the ecological cause. While the delimitation of the problem taken up is part of a diagnosis shaped by the authorities and scientific cause builders, the explanation of the causal chains of responsibility and the claims in terms of carbon frugality give rise to interpretative divergences shared between a technical vision presented as disencumbered from the social space and a critical political apprehension of social and economic structures. The interest in the circulation of language allows us to highlight a process of politicisation at work in the militant formulations. This process is established according to two distinct modalities, depending on the one hand on the perception schemes integrated during the primary socialization and on the other hand on the biographical experience of ordeals generating phases of latency.
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- 2023
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21. Teenagers' participation in the public life in Italy: Insights for education from a web survey
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Stefania Chimenti, Sabina Licursi, and Emanuela Pascuzzi
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Civic engagement ,social involvement ,activism ,manifest participation ,peer relations ,Special aspects of education ,LC8-6691 ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
Purpose: The essay wonders about forms and ways of participation in the public sphere of adolescents. The investigated practices include individual and collective participation in different contexts (in the community, at school, among peers), in physical or web presence. Design/ methodology/ approach: A web survey was carried out involving about 1,300 adolescents (14-17 years old) in five Italian urban contexts, different in size and geographical location. Findings: Cognitive and actionable findings regarding adolescents’ participation. Research limitations/ implications: Self-completed questionnaire, involvement of adolescents not attending project partner schools, not statistically representative samples but good enough for our particular purpose. Practical implications: Empirical evidence a) provide deep knowledge of adolescents, b) identify constructive approaches to promote participatory skills and full and conscious involvement in community life, c) are useful for local project partners and other operators involved in adolescents’ education promoting community-based interventions for well-being and preventing the disadvantaged situation in young people, and d) will represent the basis of local research training workshops.
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- 2023
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22. Prendre goût à la politique: la construction de la communauté de Sant'Egidio dans le « long 1968 » italien (1967-1978).
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Balas, Marie
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- 2023
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23. «Une part des jeunes boude les entreprises les moins vertueuses».
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PULVAR, AUDREY
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CLIMATE change ,ACTIVISM ,RADICALISM ,YOUTH ,GLOBAL warming - Abstract
The article offers information on the mindset of young people regarding climate change, highlighting that some environmentally engaged youth are leaning towards more radical forms of activism. Sociologist Dominique Méda cautions against generalizing this radicalism to all young people, as it primarily represents a segment of youth who have the freedom to make such choices.
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- 2023
24. Entre deux feux. Modernisme et activisme du New Dance Group aux États-Unis.
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PELLUS, ANNE
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DANCE techniques ,MODERN dance ,DANCE ,WORKING class ,REPUTATION ,ACTIVISM - Abstract
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- 2023
25. « Enrichir les formes de luttes par l’imaginaire ». L’activisme participatif des Scotcheuses à Notre-Dame-des-Landes.
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LAYERLE, SÉBASTIEN
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ACTIVISM ,TWO thousands (Decade) ,INTERNET ,CONCRETE ,FICTION - Abstract
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- 2023
26. Nommer le travail du sexe. Entretien avec Sïana, Marie et Lev, de l’association PDA
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Thomas Angeletti, Juliette Galonnier, and Manon Him-Aquilli
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prostitution ,reflexivity ,sex work ,activism ,category ,Social Sciences - Abstract
During an interview, three sex workers discuss the different ways of describing prostitution with Tracés. What words and expressions do they use to name themselves and their activity? With what effects and in what situations? After having raised the limits of a strategic stigma change through the self-designation as “whore”, they point to the ambivalence of the expression “sex work” which seems to be becoming institutionalised and euphemistic. They then discuss the issues related to outing (revealing their activity) and talk about the handling of terms used when dealing with their clients. Finally, looking back at the category of “sexual accompaniment”, they highlight the hypocrisy of the expression.
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- 2022
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27. Mediatization of Islamophobia on Chinese Social Networks: State Ambiguity in the Face of Anti-Islam Activism
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Zhuoran MA
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islamophobia ,mediatization ,weibo ,china ,activism ,Communication. Mass media ,P87-96 - Abstract
This paper aims to analyze the political stakes of media coverage in the relationship between the Chinese state and anti-Islam activism. A corpus of more than 210,000 media and user data (posts, reposts, comments, etc.) has been built from Weibo based on two events: the Kunming train station attack in China in 2014 and the Paris attacks in 2015. This work identifies, through an analysis of media content and users, the main composition of anti-Islam activism, the state's strategy of ambiguity to this activism and a less censored space of debate constructed communicatively in the process of mediatization of Islamophobia.
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- 2022
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28. Women’s Mobilization, Digital Mediatization and the Emergence of bottom-up Activism in Tunisia and Morocco
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Zeineb TOUATI and Hassan ATIFI
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mediatisation ,digital media ,activism ,women ,morocco ,tunisia ,Communication. Mass media ,P87-96 - Abstract
This contribution deals with the evolution of women's mobilization forms and digital activism in Tunisia and Morocco and their media coverage. The objective is to observe and describe the main demand topics for more individual freedoms and women's rights carried by citizen and activist actors in the Tunisian and Moroccan digital space. The study focuses on a double corpus resulting from a regular monitoring of Facebook pages, Twitter accounts as well as the Youtube platform. This analysis allowed us to point out the new forms of engagement allowed by digital media and to show the emergence, in these countries, of a new activism from below that is complementary but autonomous from classical activism.
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- 2022
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29. Digital Activism and Identity-Based Use of Social Networks in the Context of the New Caledonian Independence Referendum
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Akila NEDJAR-GUERRE
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referendum ,activism ,facebook ,kanak ,independentist ,Communication. Mass media ,P87-96 - Abstract
In the context of the referendum in New Caledonia under the Nouméa Accords, the representatives and leaders of the pro-independence parties are dealing with both field activism and that of the television platforms and social networks. However, in the context of New Caledonia's digital transition, the differences in technological equipment and socio-economic inequalities lead to power relationships between independentists and non-independents according to the appropriation of digital technology by the militants. The analysis of the digital communication on Facebook of the political parties, the week before the 2020 referendum, shows an increase in digital interactions among independentists since 2018 on the one hand, and a discourse with cultural and religious attributes on the other hand, where the "self" is erased in favour of the community belonging. This study thus examines the potential of Facebook to correlate on-line expression with militant expression on the terrain, reinforcing the visibility of the pro-independence community collective with the constraints of accessibility to digital equipment and visibility of this group in the traditional media space.
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- 2022
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30. Food activism and negotiating the gendered dynamics of public cultures of care
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Teresa Lloro and Frecia González
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activism ,care ,gender ,intersectional feminism ,feminist food studies ,progressive and radical food movements ,Nutrition. Foods and food supply ,TX341-641 ,Social Sciences - Abstract
A growing and significant research literature utilizes feminist frameworks to study relationships with food from a variety of vantage points. In this article, we are especially interested in feminist food sovereignty, feminist political ecology, and feminist theories of care, both because caring labor has been historically undervalued in food systems and because neoliberal modes of commodification and marketization have interpellated activists, scholar-activists, and activist-scholars into new ways of self-care and caring for others. To begin, we provide a brief overview of the places where we work, including the city of Pomona, the Pomona Valley Certified Farmers Market, and the Pomona Community Farmer Alliance (PCFA), a community organization and local activist collective. We then draw on nearly three years of participatory ethnographic work in this community to explore and theorize care work in local food systems activism. Our conceptual framework, framed by feminist food studies and theories of care, illuminates how PCFA members conceive of their own caring work in practice, as well as how they negotiate the complexities of caring for others and self, while being left by the state to do this work. We also explore how activists’ care practices sometimes lay bare structural inequalities and the failure of the state, while also reinforcing and challenging neoliberal ideologies embedded in volunteerism. To conclude, we discuss the gendered implications of our work for food systems research, specifically considering the complementarity of Progressive and Radical approaches to food systems transformation.
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- 2022
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31. CITOYENNE À TRAVERS LES FRONTIÈRES : ETTA PALM D’AELDERS ET LA CITOYENNETÉ TRANSNATIONALE, 1788-1798.
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SINT NICOLAAS, Samantha
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FRENCH Revolution, 1789-1799 ,CITIZENSHIP ,WOMEN ,ACTIVISM - Abstract
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- 2023
32. ‘We want to have a positive impact’: Fragile ecologies and the Iraqi Kurds’ dutiful environmentalism
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Dobrosława Wiktor-Mach, Kaziwa Dylan, and Marcin Skupiński
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Environmentalism ,dutiful dissent ,activism ,Iraq ,the Kurdistan region ,Environmental sciences ,GE1-350 ,Political science - Abstract
In this article, we investigate the emergence of modern environmentalism in the Kurdistan Region (Iraq), a de facto state in which ecological well-being is under serious strain. Social mobilizations in the Middle East have been depicted as confrontational and opposing the authorities. Studies of environmental activism in the region have also highlighted conflictual relations between social actors and the holders of power. In this article, we stress the need to expand the research scope to closely examine other forms of actions and strategies in relation to ecological threats and climate change. Drawing upon field research and interviews in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, we analyze the (geo)politics, economic systems and social change which together affect nature, natural resources, landscapes and climate, as well as the patterns of Kurdish contestation in these areas. We term the typical practices of the new phenomenon of Kurdish environmental activism as 'dutiful' form of dissent, which can be explained by contextualizing activism. It is grounded in political ecology and activists' efforts are directed at state building and policymaking in a post-conflict state.
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- 2023
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33. The Invisibility of the Asian American Identity in North American Bioethics
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Katherine Huerne
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Asian ,American ,bioethics ,invisibility ,inclusion ,activism ,Ethics ,BJ1-1725 - Abstract
This Perspective sheds light on the major barriers behind Asian American invisibility in bioethics, such as the inconsistencies in defining a coherent identity in North American society, the systemic mechanisms of invisibility from history to healthcare based on immigration status, and scarcity of bioethics literature about their perspectives. The consequences of Asian American invisibility in bioethics and healthcare practises are also discussed, including a reflection of the interconnected mechanisms between academic bioethical theory and healthcare practises that perpetuate Asian American invisibility. Finally, recommendations are provided to begin a critical reflection of bioethical theory with Asian Americans in mind. This serves as the stepping-stone for future discussions on Asian American bioethics, to highlight a missing perspective in North American race-based activism regarding the equity, diversity, and inclusion of an underrepresented demographic.
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- 2023
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34. Consciences du droit, connaissances et savoir-faire juridiques chez les soutiens aux personnes exilées
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Karine Lamarche and Oriana Philippe
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migration ,activism ,borders ,legal consciousness ,relationship to law ,Anthropology ,GN1-890 ,Sociology (General) ,HM401-1281 - Abstract
This article examines the ways in which people supporting exiled persons mobilise and understand the law in Calais and Briançon, two cities that have become, at different times and in different ways, major centres of migration. The first part looks at the ways in which these people understand the law and become, to different degrees and in different ways, intermediaries of the law. The second part uses the concept of “legal consciousness” developed across the Atlantic in the early 1990s to question the way in which the experience of involvement in these border territories has led to a change in their relationship with the law, both as a written norm and in how it is applied by institutions.
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- 2022
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35. 'My country, my enemy': representing and questioning American politics through radical activism in The Darling by Russell Banks
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Marine Paquereau
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United States ,history ,activism ,politics ,rebellion ,Latin America. Spanish America ,F1201-3799 ,Social Sciences - Abstract
In the novel The Darling, published by Russell Banks in 2004, a young American woman, Hannah Musgrave, decides to rebel against her bourgeois upbringing in the 1960s by embracing the radicalism of the Weather Underground. After being accused of terrorism, she has to live under a fake name and she eventually flees the United States to settle in Liberia. This article aims at studying the ways in which Banks draws on his fictional character’s personal experience to question the impact of revolutionary ideals on American society. The protagonist’s multiple identities, which reflect the political upheavals and the inner conflicts of her country, as well as the constant blurring of the boundaries between reality and fiction enable Banks to offer a complex reflection on the building and the staging of American political history in the second half of the twentieth century.
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- 2023
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36. Action sociale partisane, ethnicisation et citoyenneté culturelle en Italie du Sud : le cas d’étude d’une Maison du peuple dans un ancien hôpital psychiatrique judiciaire à Naples
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Florian Pietron
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action sociale partisane ,ethnicisation ,citoyenneté culturelle ,subjectivation ,émancipation ,Naples ,Potere al popolo! ,Ex-Opg ,participation citoyenne ,participation politique ,démocratie ,mouvements sociaux ,militantisme ,Italie ,partisan social action ,ethnicization ,cultural citizenship ,subjectivization ,emancipation ,citizen participation ,political participation ,democracy ,social movements ,activism ,Italy ,Political science (General) ,JA1-92 ,Sociology (General) ,HM401-1281 - Abstract
Cet article se focalise sur le modèle d’action sociale partisane expérimenté à Naples au sein de la Maison du peuple, située dans l’ancien hôpital psychiatrique judiciaire de la ville. Ce complexe de 9000 m2 abandonné depuis plusieurs années fut occupé par un collectif de militant·e·s communistes en 2015 dans le but de donner vie à des pratiques sociales, politiques et culturelles à travers le principe d’autogestion. En 2017, le collectif décida de fonder l’organisation politique de gauche radicale Potere al popolo! (Pouvoir au peuple!). La structure fut alors convertie en Maison du peuple, au sein de laquelle les militant·e·s expérimentent désormais un modèle d’action sociale hybride. Afin d’analyser ce modèle, nous proposons le concept d’« action sociale partisane », définie comme une forme d’action collective impliquant la production de pratiques sociales par une organisation politique. Sur le plan empirique, nous présentons l’histoire de ce projet collaboratif et nous faisons état des pratiques organisées par les participant·e·s au sein de cet espace. Aussi, nous analysons les logiques d’action sur lesquelles se fonde le modèle étudié ainsi que leur évolution depuis la fondation de l’organisation politique Potere al popolo!. Enfin, en nous appuyant sur la théorie actionnaliste développée par Alain Touraine, nous interrogeons les effets de l’action sociale partisane au sein de la Maison du peuple de Naples, en ce qui concerne la redéfinition de leur identité culturelle par les acteurs·rice·s impliqué·e·s. En conclusion, nous discutons le rapport entre citoyenneté culturelle et processus de subjectivation.
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- 2023
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37. Des trotskistes à l'usine: le «tournant vers l'industrie» de la LCR par celles et ceux qui l'ont vécu.
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MELCHIOR, Hugo
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- 2022
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38. FACE B.
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LE GOUËFFLEC, ARNAUD and MOOG, NICOLAS
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ART ,ACTIVISM - Abstract
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- 2023
39. Overcoming Faust: Maksim Gorky in the Perception of Philosopher, Poet, and Aesthetician Aleksandr Gorsky
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Anastasia G. Gacheva
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literary and philosophical heritage of aleksandr gorsky ,maksim gorky’s work ,“overcoming faust ,” criticism of the faustian consciousness ,activism ,projectivity ,immortalism ,philosophical criticism of philistinism ,individualism ,collectivism. ,Literature (General) ,PN1-6790 - Abstract
The article examines the attitude of philosopher, poet, and aesthetician Aleksandr Gorsky to the personality and legacy of A.M. Gorky. It outlines the main directions of Gorky’s perception and interpretation by Gorsky. The article argues that Gorsky highlights vitality and projectivity of Gorky’s creative thinking, and considers him a consistent immortalist. The focus is on Gorsky’s unpublished work “Overcoming Faust” (1939–1940), a typical example of philosophical criticism that uses philological methods of analysis. Gorsky examines Faustianism through the prism of the rejection of individualism, which is specific for Gorky’s work. Considering the desire for knowledge and action as the defining feature of the Faustian consciousness, Gorsky notes that this desire is constrained and limited by the fact of human mortality and the recognition of the omnipotence of nature. The fact that Faustianism does not aim at overcoming death and eventually comes to terms with with it, allows Gorsky to see Faustianism as a bourgeois type of consciousness. Instead, Gorky, by standing against petty-bourgeois passivity in his work, raises the question about the means to overcome death. Gorky’s early fairy tale “The Girl and Death” is interpreted by Gorsky in the context of the development of life-affirming consciousness that overcomes death by the power of love and devotion to the common cause.
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- 2021
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40. Online activism and street harassment: Critical cartographies, counter-mapping and spatial justice
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Bianca Fileborn
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street harassment ,digital criminology ,activism ,critical cartography ,crime mapping ,acoso callejero ,criminología digital ,activismo ,cartografía crítica ,cartografía de la delincuencia ,Social legislation ,K7585-7595 - Abstract
Social media and activist sites have provided an avenue to contest the dominant framing of street harassment as ‘trivial’ and have sought to make street harassment and its harms visible. To date, digital activism has been analysed and conceptualised in relation to its potential as a counter-public forum that enables collective action and resistance, political mobilisation, ‘speaking out’ and consciousness raising, and as a site of informal or innovative justice. I aim to build on this literature by examining the potential for the activist sites Hollaback!, @catcallsofnyc and @dearcatcallers to function as a form of ‘counter-mapping’, contributing towards broader social justice efforts to disrupt and transform dominant productions of space/place. I examine the tensions created by these digital practices, particularly with regards to whether they disrupt the production of space/place or, rather, reinforce urban space as a gendered ‘threatscape’. Algunas redes sociales y sitios web de activistas han constituido una vía de contestación al marco dominante que considera el acoso callejero como algo “trivial”; y han procurado visibilizar el acoso callejero y sus perjuicios. Hasta la fecha, se ha analizado y conceptualizado el activismo digital en relación con su potencial como contraforo público que posibilita la acción y resistencia colectivas, la movilización política, “alzar la voz” y concienciar, y como lugar de justicia informal o innovadora. Me propongo contribuir a esta literatura realizando un análisis del potencial de los sitios web activistas Hollaback!, @catcallsofnyc y @dearcatcallers para funcionar como “contraperfilado geográfico”, contribuyendo a ampliar la justicia social y perturbar y transformar producciones dominantes de espacio/lugar. Examino las tensiones creadas por dichas prácticas digitales, sobre todo en torno a la cuestión de si perturban la producción de espacio/lugar o si, más bien, refuerzan el espacio urbano como escenario de amenaza de género. Available from: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1144
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- 2021
41. Les ambiances des hydrocarbures
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Tobias Etienne-Greenwood
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atmosphere ,subterranean ,unconventional hydrocarbons ,Vaca Muerta ,activism ,resistance ,Geography. Anthropology. Recreation ,Social Sciences - Abstract
For a decade, the exploitation of the Vaca Muerta hydrocarbon formation in Argentina has brought its share of political and economic controversies as well as serious environmental damages. These transformations also have consequences on the sensitive experience of the project’s opponents. This article explores how the opponents to the project try to decipher the atmosphere that radiates from an industrial complex that makes it difficult to distinguish between the underground, the surface, and the surrounding air. It is this subterranean atmosphere that penetrates, swathes, and finally disturbs the worlds of everyday life that activists and inhabitants alike describe in their testimonies and practices. The analysis of these forms of ordinary criticism also makes it possible to highlight the importance of atmosphere when it comes to taking collective action against these extractive industries.
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- 2022
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42. Discrétion managériale et enjeux de gouvernance : quelle relation avec les investissements en R&D dans les entreprises tunisiennes.
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Sfar, Dorsaf Bentaleb and Hassine, Anissa Ben
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- 2022
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43. Requalification de leur rôle par les journalistes chinois.
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SALMON, NOLWENN
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JOURNALISM & politics ,SOCIAL networks ,PARTICIPANT observation ,SEMI-structured interviews ,INTERNET users ,ACTIVISM - Abstract
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- 2022
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44. RÉSUMÉS/ABSTRACTS.
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EMPLOYMENT ,ACTIVISM ,LEISURE ,INFORMATION technology ,WOMEN - Published
- 2022
45. Mongo Beti et la prophétie irréalisée de Martin Luther King Jr. Black Bodies Matter !
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KEMEDJIO, Cilas
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CIVIL rights movements ,BLACK Lives Matter movement ,AFRICAN American civil rights ,ACTIVISM ,PAN-Africanism ,HUMAN rights ,BLACK rights ,REINCARNATION - Abstract
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- 2022
46. Prolongement des concepts de Mongo Beti autour de l’éco-solidarité : Barthélémy Toguo.
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TISSIÈRES, Hélène
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ENDANGERED plants ,CULTURAL centers ,POLITICAL systems ,ART ,URBAN planning ,PEASANTS - Abstract
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- 2022
47. Militantisme numérique et usage identitaire des réseaux sociaux dans le cadre du référendum d'autodétermination de la Nouvelle-Calédonie.
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NEDJAR-GUERRE, Akila
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POWER (Social sciences) ,POLITICAL communication ,DIGITAL communications ,POLITICAL parties ,REFERENDUM ,COMMUNITIES ,AUTONOMY & independence movements - Abstract
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- 2022
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48. Mobilisations des femmes, médiatisations numériques et émergence de l'activisme par le bas en Tunisie et au Maroc.
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TOUATI, Zeineb and ATIFI, Hassan
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WOMEN'S rights ,ACTIVISM ,DIGITAL media ,TUNISIANS - Abstract
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- 2022
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49. Médiatisation de l'islamophobie sur les réseaux socionumériques chinois : les enjeux ambigus de l'État face au militantisme anti-Islam.
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Zhuoran, M. A.
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RAILROAD stations ,MASS media & politics ,ISLAMOPHOBIA ,ACTIVISM ,AMBIGUITY ,CONTENT analysis - Abstract
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- 2022
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50. LinkedIn, le réseau allié de la com corporate.
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BAILLY, GARANCE
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CORPORATE communications ,LEADERSHIP ,BRANDING (Marketing) ,ACTIVISM - Abstract
The article focuses on the growing importance of LinkedIn as a platform for corporate communication strategies, particularly in thought leadership initiatives. It discusses LinkedIn's evolution, its editorial enhancements, and the rise of personal branding and employee advocacy on the platform. Additionally, it explores how LinkedIn has become a space for robust debates and activism, particularly regarding environmental and social issues.
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- 2024
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