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29. Keep Your Promises: Campaigning to hold government to account in India

Author

Kumar, Avinash

Subjects
Education, Governance and citizenship, Health
Abstract

Despite its booming economy and burgeoning middle classes, India is a country where hundreds of millions remain in severe poverty. In 2004 a new government was elected largely due to its promise to improve the lives of the poorest and most marginalised people by creating health centres, schools, and jobs. Also in 2004, the World Social Forum in Mumbai brought a diverse range of Indian organisations together, who later formed Wada Na Todo Abhiyan, the ‘Keep Your Promises’ campaign, to ensure a collective movement for change. This paper explains how the campaign succeeded in mobilising hundreds of thousands of people in India to pressure the government to deliver on key promises, and in demonstrating the huge demand of people across India for social justice and a better future for all the nation’s children.

Published
2011

43. How the experience of California wildfires shape Twitter climate change framings

Author

Ko, Jessie WY, Ni, Shengquan, Taylor, Alexander, Chen, Xiusi, Huang, Yicong, Kumar, Avinash, Alsudais, Sadeem, Wang, Zuozhi, Liu, Xiaozhen, Wang, Wei, Li, Chen, and Hopfer, Suellen

Subjects
Communication and Media Studies, Environmental Sciences, Language, Communication and Culture, Climate Action, Climate change, Climate change communication, Wildfire, Extreme weather events, Framing, Twitter, Engagement, Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Abstract

Climate communication scientists search for effective message strategies to engage the ambivalent public in support of climate advocacy. The personal experience of wildfire is expected to render climate change impacts more concretely, pointing to a potential message strategy to engage the public. This study examined Twitter discourse related to climate change during the onset of 20 wildfires in California between the years 2017 and 2021. In this mixed method study, we analyzed tweets geographically and temporally proximal to the occurrence of wildfires to discover framings and examined how frequencies in climate framings changed before and after fires. Results identified three predominant climate framings: linking wildfire to climate change, suggesting climate actions, and attributing climate change to adversities besides wildfires. Mean tweet frequencies linking wildfire to climate change and attributing adversities increased significantly after the onset of fire. While suggesting climate action tweets also increased, the increase was not statistically significant. Temporal analysis of tweet frequencies for the three themes of tweets showed that discussion increased after the onset of a fire but persisted typically no more than 2 weeks. For fires that burned for longer periods of more than a month, external events triggered climate discussions. Our findings contribute to identifying how the personal experience of wildfire shapes Twitter discussion related to climate change, and how these framings change over time during wildfire events, leading to insights into critical time points after wildfire for implementing message strategies to increase public engagement on climate change impacts and policy.

Published
2024

46. Indians Demand Equality for Women

Author

Dziedzic, Stephen, Thekkudan, Julie, Kumar, Avinash, Raju, Gautam, Sengupta, Amit, and Gupta, Priyanka

Subjects
Gender, Inequality
Abstract

CLOSETHEGAP is Oxfam India’s innovative new campaign for equality. It challenges manifestations of inequality in all areas, such as property rights, health, education, the right tofood and nutrition, and budgetary allocations for marginalised groups., The campaign began by focusing on gender inequality, asking the general public the ways in which they would close the gap between men and women., This publication comes up with exciting facts and findings on such crucial issues.

Published
2013

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