Search results for "social activism"
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Mobilità di genere e attivismo nel Nord Africa post-rivoluzionario. Strategie, sviluppo e sfide
2019
"Emerging Actors in Post-Revolutionary North Africa: Gender Mobility and Social Activism", Anna Maria Di Tolla e Ersilia Francesca (eds), book review, in «Studi magrebini», XIV-XV (2016-2017), vol. I, pp. 452. The review highlights the issues that that book deals with, focusing in particular on gender mobility and social activism in post-revolutionary North Africa. Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt are Study cases of the book that includes papers in English and in French.
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…
A Historical Analysis of Media Practices and Technologies in Protest Movements : A Review of Crisis and Critique by Anne Kaun
2017
Dr. Anne Kaun’s book, <em>Crisis and Critique: A Brief History of Media Participation in Times of Crisis</em> (London: Zed Books, 2016, 131 pp., ISBN: 978-1-78360-736-5), is a concise but comprehensive analysis of the changing media practices and technologies in protest movements. The book overviews the topic within the context of major economic crises and scrutinises three richly detailed case studies in the United States: (a) the unemployed workers’ movement during the Great Depression in the 1930s, (b) the tenants’ rent strike movement of the early 1970s, and (c) the Occupy Wall Street movement following the Great Recession of 2008. Kaun begins her book with an introduction t…