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Young Generations' Activism in Italy: Comparing Political Engagement and Participation of Native Youths and Youths from a Migrant Background
Focusing on individuals aged 14–35 still living with their family of origin, we compare the political activism of Italian natives with their first...
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Exploring Relationships Between Nonprofit Participation and Political Participation in Asian Context
One essential role of nonprofits (NPOs) is to provide opportunities for people to participate in movements and resolve collective issues. This study...
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Reimagining Health as a ‘Flow on Effect’ of Biomedical Innovation: Research Policy as a Site of State Activism
As health care systems have been recast as innovation assets, commercial aims are increasingly prominent within states’ health and medical research...
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Political Activism as Driver of Cooperative Sector
It has been shown that, in a context of economic crisis, cooperatives remain more resilient and flexible than other forms of entrepreneurship. The...
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Parent-Led Activism and Children with Disabilities in South Africa
Parents and caregivers of children with disabilities often act as representatives, mediators, and advocates for their children, partly out of...
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Entrepreneurial treatment activism for undone science: mannitol and Parkinson’s disease
This paper describes CliniCrowd, a patient-designed, entrepreneurial, crowd-sourced citizen-science approach to evaluating mannitol—essentially, an...
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Al Gore: Unpacking the Inconvenient Truths of Gore’s Celebrity Activism
This chapter interrogates Al Gore’s persona as a climate change activist with reference to a process we describe with the neologism...
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Francia Márquez’s Soul Mining: Recovering Ecology in Afro-Indigenous Activism
This chapter on Afro-Colombian activist and attorney Francia Márquez provides a more representative, gender, race, and ethnicity-inclusive...
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The Dual-Agency Problem of Labor Union Pension Fund Shareholder Activism
Through their pension funds, labor unions have grown increasingly active as shareholders over the last 2 decades. As shareholders, research suggests...
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The Political Effects of Economic Inequality: Evidence from Hong Kong
Economic inequality can have significant political-social impacts, leading to social unrest and other negative consequences. With a high level of...
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Korean Migrants’ Transnational Activism in Australia: Collective Meaning Making around Human Rights
Despite a growing evidence of transmigrants’ political activism, empirical research is still in its infancy. This paper examined how migrants’...
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Sexual Identities and Political Protesting Among Social Work Students
This study has three tasks. First, it establishes the extent in which current social work students engage in protest activities. Second, it analyzes...
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Values, Activism and Changing Attitudes: Individual-Level Moral Development in Social Movement Contexts
Lately, several studies have added crucial knowledge to our understanding of social movement participation by demonstrating its processual nature and...
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Planning as social practice: the formation and blockage of competitive futures in tournament chess, homebuying, and political organizing
Drawing on models of the interaction order, we describe how planning is an inherently social activity. We argue that planning as a practice involves...
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Advancing action on the political determinants of health in the United States
In an era of political polarization, growing anti-science sentiment, and pervasive inequities in the social drivers of health, a rising tide of...
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Internet Activism and the Populist Agenda
Populism as a concept has undergone transitions, and scholars have interpreted it in various ways. It has been perceived as an ideology, a political...
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Expand or Translate?: Theorising Work in Professionals’ Activism
Professionals are influential social actors who leverage their skills and social status to provide specialised services to the public. While...
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Harnessing the Power of Climate Activism: Insights from Psychological Perspectives on Climate Change Engagement—A Systematic Review
Scientific evidence has validated the inevitability of global warming and its effect in the form of climate change. There has been an increase in...
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Latency and Crisis: Mutual Aid Activism in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Activists have responded to the Covid-19 pandemic by organizing for mutual aid: creating collective action to meet people’s material needs and build...
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The Love Ethic: Love and Activism for Ecosocial Justice
In “The Love Ethic: Love and Activism for Ecosocial Justice,” Godden and Peter position themselves as part of a growing movement of social work...