Essays about: "social mobilization thesis"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 64 essays containing the words social mobilization thesis.

1. 1. How Storytelling Drives Activism and Resistance? : Mobilization behind the Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

   Author : Suad Sadullahi; [2024]
   Keywords : Resistance; SLAPP; Activism; Space; Storytelling; Power relations; Mobilization;

   Abstract : This thesis focuses on the stories of activists in Kosovo and why and how they resist in a context where powerful actors increasingly use strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPP) as a new mode of exercising power. The thesis seeks to understand resistance and new ways of exercising resistance in the context of SLAPP. READ MORE

3. 2. Pepita de oro: How AlVelAl is building a regional regenerative agriculture transformation through social innovations

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

   Author : Elissa Dickson; [2023]
   Keywords : regenerative agriculture; Spain; sustainability transformation; social innovation; adaptive capacity; institutions; drylands;

   Abstract : Regenerative Agriculture (RA) is increasingly promoted as a sustainable agri-food solution. Agronomic studies find that RA practices (e.g. cover crops, reduced tillage, crop rotation, and agroforestry) can regulate soil moisture, sequester atmospheric carbon, enhance biodiversity, and reduce the impacts of droughts and floods. READ MORE

4. 3. Exploring the Motivation behind Sexuality-Driven Political Participation in an Increasingly Undemocratic Context

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Sándor Ádám Gorni; [2023]
   Keywords : political participation; LGBT ; Hungary; democratic backsliding; homophobia; minority mobilization;

   Abstract : Sexuality-driven political participation refers to the political engagement of people of sexual minorities. While progress has been made in understanding the motivation behind their political participation, this study seeks to address the limitations of the existing literature which are designed explicitly to work in democratic contexts where engagement can bear fruit and for mostly quantitative inquiries which imply homogeneity and fail to map out the heterogeneity in the meanings of sexual minorities’ political participation. READ MORE

5. 4. The Time was Ripe: Women’s Movements’ Break-throughs in the Colombian Peace Agreement

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

   Author : Ellen Birging; Elin Hansson Huber; [2023]
   Keywords : Colombia; gender inclusion; peace agreement; positive peace; hegemonic masculinity; ripeness; women’s mobilization.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In 2016 a historic peace agreement between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC) was signed, putting an end to a conflict that lasted over 50 years. This agreement was the world’s very first gender-inclusive peace accord, meaning that they included women in the peace process and recognized how they are particularly subjected to war and conflict. READ MORE

6. 5. “What Else Can We Do?” An examination into sustained anti-authoritarian mobilization in Hong Kong’s Yellow Economic Circle

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Bonnie Tallberg; [2023]
   Keywords : Anti-authoritarianism; Contentious Politics; Democracy; Hong Kong; Mobilization; Yellow Economic Circle; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Civil liberties and freedoms have diminished globally due to the last decades’ deepened authoritarianism. Concurrently, mobilizations countering this development have decreased. READ MORE