Search results for "activism"

Power of Paradox: Grassroots Organizations’ Legitimacy Strategies Over Time

2021

Fringe stakeholders with limited resources, such as grassroots organizations (GROs), are often ignored in business and society literature. We develop a conceptual framework and a set of propositions detailing how GROs strategically gain legitimacy and influence over time. We argue that GROs encounter specific paradoxes over the emergence, development, and resolution of an issue, and they address these paradoxes using cognitive, moral, and pragmatic legitimacy strategies. While cognitive and moral strategies tend to be used consistently, the flexible and paradoxical use of pragmatic strategies has important consequences, both for GROs’ legitimacy and for their potential influence over powerf…

The Public Artist as a Fringe Agent for Sustainability: Practices of Environmentalist Driven Art-Activism and Their Digital Perspectives

2022

The chapter investigates today’s intersection of visual arts and sustainability, which developed thanks to the civic agency of public artists especially concerned with environmental issues. Since its inception, public art operated on the fringe, thus framing a space for new practices and wider audiences. Drawing on an interdisciplinary analysis of the last two decades that shaped sustainable art practices, the chapter explores key concepts, practices, categories, and exemplary artworks that defined public art as a form of activism addressing environmental concerns. The chapter analyzes examples of ecological interventions, community engagement, radical actions, and digital sharing that effi…

Spanish Judicial Decisions of Private International Law, 2009

2009

Spanish Judicial Decisions in Private International Law, 2007

2007

Digital Spaces of Collaboration in Aesthetic Counter Narratives: Hamedullah. The Road Home and The Mirror Project

2020

Based on Margaret Somers’s senses of narrative and narrativity by means of which “we constitute our social identities (1992: 600), this study focuses on the scrutiny of two digital “subversive” aesthetic products, namely, British filmmaker Sue Clayton’s documentary Hamedullah. The Road Home (2012) and German philosopher Kevin McElvaney’s The Mirror Project (2017), with the objective of highlighting how the unfolding of verbal and visual narratives can be treated as the principle and “inescapable” (Baker 2006: 9) mode by means of which marginalised subjectivities “experience the world” (Baker 2006: 9) and can render it familiar to the Western gaze. The narratives revealed by the Afghan boy, …

Anti-Racism from the Margins: Welcoming Refugees at Schengen’s Northernmost Border

2018

Through events of solidarity with refugees that unfolded at the Arctic border between Norway and Russia in 2015, we critically address two common analyses of racism and humanitarianism. First, we argue that the often-claimed explanation that racism results from disenfranchised social class fails to identify solidarities across marginalized groups. Furthermore, as anti-Muslim racism has become more mainstream in the Nordic region, solidarity with refugees offers critical positions in relation to political centers. Second, the case demonstrates how humanitarian action and politicized refugee activism are not necessarily separate forms of action but more entangled forms of engagement. The case…

ENACCIÓN, APRENDIZAJE EXPERIENCIAL Y ADQUISICIÓN DEL ESPAÑOL COMO LS

2019

The object of the present work is to observe, from an enactive position, not only the language, but above all the learning of Spanish as second language in Italian students. And, to carry out this analytical operation, we will use the experimental learning model of Kolb (1984), which considers learning a process driven by experience and requires, for its correct realization, the man to interact with his environment. El objeto del presente trabajo es observar, desde una postura enactiva, no sólo el lenguaje, sino sobre todo el aprendizaje de una lengua segunda y, en particular, del español por parte de aprendices italianos. Y, para llevar a cabo esta operación analítica, echaremos mano del m…

Resolving the Puzzle of Conspiracy Worldview and Political Activism: Belief in Secret Plots Decreases Normative but Increases Nonnormative Political …

2019

It is a hitherto open and debated question whether the belief in conspiracies increases or attenuates the willingness to engage in political action. In the present article, we tested the notion, whether (a) the relation between belief in conspiracies and general political engagement is curvilinear (inverted U-shaped) and (b) there may be opposing relations to normative versus nonnormative forms of political engagement. Two preregistered experiments ( N = 194, N = 402) support both propositions and show that the hypothetical adoption of a worldview that sees the world as governed by secret plots attenuates reported intentions to participate in normative, legal forms of political participati…

La esfera pública digital y el activismo político

2015

El desarrollo de las tecnologías digitales ha impulsado transformaciones fundamentales en la esfera pública, que se manifiestan en la tipología de los medios, las formas de organización, la orientación de las acciones y su escala cada vez más globalizada. Estos cambios, a su vez, han abierto nuevas posibilidades para el activismo político, que aprovechan las oportunidades ofrecidas por la digitalización. Las nuevas formas de activismo incluyen el activismo digital ampliado, el activismo digital innovador y el activismo digital recursivo. The development of digital technologies has fostered basic transformations in the public sphere, reflected in the typology of media outlets, forms of organ…

Refugiadas colombianas: defensoras de derechos humanos y activistas transnacionales

2017

Esta comunicación tiene dos propósitos, por una parte visibilizar el papel de las refugiadas colombianas como defensoras de derechos humanos transnacionales y, por otra, dar a conocer los cambios sociales que están propiciando dichas refugiadas que, aunque en apariencia parecen minoritarios o marginales, pueden constituir interesantes indicadores sobre las transformaciones a las que asistimos en la sociedad global y nos ofrece una perspectiva amplia para reflexionar sobre los nuevos modelos de ciudadanía global, sobre la construcción de políticas sociales y sobre el papel de las minorías en ellos. Se pretende reconocer los rasgos principales de su activismo y examinar sus estrategias en el …