State repression and escalation in Biafra social movements in Nigeria: Any way out?
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DOI: 10.1007/s10611-021-09985-8
Abstract: This study examined the effects of State repression on the escalation in Biafra social movements in Nigeria. Integrated Separatist Agitation Theory (ISAT) was applied in the analysis. A cross-sectional design, purposive and snowballing sampling techniques… read more here.
Keywords: state; social movements; state repression; biafra social ... See more keywords
The Radicalization of Democracy: Conflict, Social Movements and Terrorism
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DOI: 10.1007/s10612-017-9373-8
Abstract: AbstractThe idea of democracy is being championed across the world, with some fifty new countries embracing this type of political system between 1974 and 2011 (Freedom House Anxious dictators, wavering democracies: global freedom under pressure,… read more here.
Keywords: terrorism; social movements; criminology; democracy ... See more keywords
Resistance and the Radical Imagination: A Reflection on the Role of the Critical Criminologist in Social Movements
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DOI: 10.1007/s10612-021-09577-x
Abstract: At times of global unrest and the emergence of a wide range of protest movements, recent intra-disciplinary criminological debates on the potentials and limits of resistance suggest a paradoxical trend. Critical criminologists—in particular, those associated… read more here.
Keywords: social movements; reflection role; critical reflection; resistance ... See more keywords
Place and tactical innovation in social movements: the emergence of Egypt’s anti-harassment groups
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DOI: 10.1007/s11186-017-9304-4
Abstract: This study examines the first two years of a tactical innovation that emerged in 2012 in Egypt, which involved activist groups organizing patrol-type "intervention teams" to combat sexual violence against women in public spaces. Findings… read more here.
Keywords: place tactical; innovation social; innovation; social movements ... See more keywords
Social movement studies in India, within and beyond sociology: Proposing postcolonial political sociology as an evolving framework
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ajss.2020.10.001
Abstract: Abstract The social movement theories, particularly emerged since the late 1960s and the empirical studies informed by these theories occupy a decisive space in the current sociological studies of social movements. Often, the theories that… read more here.
Keywords: political sociology; social movement; sociology; social movements ... See more keywords
Human service siting conflicts as social movements
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DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.05.017
Abstract: Abstract It is deeply ironic that the social movement perspective has so far scarcely been utilised to analyse local protests against establishments of human service enterprises, as the perspective was originally formulated in just such… read more here.
Keywords: human service; social movement; social movements; service siting ... See more keywords
Social Movements and the National Question in Quebec: The Institutional Legacy of a Cleavage
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DOI: 10.1017/s0008423920000347
Abstract: Abstract By taking a historical perspective on the higher education and the housing sectors in Quebec, we demonstrate how the political cleavage around the national question has had long-term effects on the dynamic of contention… read more here.
Keywords: cleavage; national question; movements national; social movements ... See more keywords
The Politics of Popular Coalitions: Unions and Territorial Social Movements in Post-Neoliberal Latin America (2000–15)
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DOI: 10.1017/s0022216x19001007
Abstract: Abstract At a general level of neoliberal repudiation or expansion of social policies, most post-neoliberal Latin American governments in the 2000s have exhibited similarities. However, coalitions with popular actors have displayed a lot of variation.… read more here.
Keywords: unions territorial; territorial social; neoliberal latin; post neoliberal ... See more keywords
Allies or Adversaries: NGOs and the State in Africa. By Jennifer N. Brass. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 291p. $105.00 cloth, $29.99 paper.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592718002530
Abstract: of the transition, Greek military leaders were put on trial. Indeed, these developments make Greece look more like Portugal than Spain. In Portugal, civil society overthrew the dictatorship while the army was away in Africa… read more here.
Keywords: allies adversaries; adversaries ngos; movement; social movements ... See more keywords
Social movements and international business activities of firms
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DOI: 10.1057/s41267-021-00424-3
Abstract: We examine social movements that arise from tensions between countries. From a neo-institutional view, we posit that social movements targeting another country generate powerful pressures on firms doing business with the targeted country. Although informal… read more here.
Keywords: country; business activities; international business; activities firms ... See more keywords
Social movements in Cambodia: why they succeed or fail
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DOI: 10.1057/s41268-019-00175-7
Abstract: In social movements and contentious politics, the factors determining success or failure of a movement remain contested since different scholars tend to argue differently. As a contribution to this debate, this paper draws on two… read more here.
Keywords: succeed fail; social movements; cambodia succeed; movements cambodia ... See more keywords