Social Movements
A social movement is a loosely organized effort by a large group of people to achieve a particular goal, typically a social or political one. This may be to carry out, resist or undo a social change. It is a type of group action and may involve individuals, organizations or both. Definitions of the term are slightly varied. Social movements have been described as "organizational structures and strategies that may empower oppressed populations to mount effective challenges and resist the more powerful and advantaged elites". They represent a method of social change from the bottom within nations.Political science and sociology …
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Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network · 27 April 2024 English
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Want to Live embodied a qualitative shift in social movements in Gaza in the aftermath of Palestinian political …
ISW: Institute for the Study of War · 26 April 2024 English
The scale and intensity of the forecasted Summer 2024 Russian offensive operation that will likely begin in June also remains unclear, and the Russian military command may be actively assessing …
organizations meant to encompass broader “social movements” as “extremist.”[34] The Russian Ministry …
Data & Society Institute · 24 April 2024 English
Keywords of the Datafied State is a collection of essays on concepts that are central to understanding the relationship between government and technology, and how it differs across geographies. Underlying …
revelatory that many civil society groups and social movements have made acquiring, analyzing, and present- …
Data & Society Institute · 24 April 2024 English
Key components of counterdata include (1) the correction of misrepresentative data, (2) the 1 Stefania Milan and Miren Gutierrez, “Technopolitics in the age of Big Data,” Networks, Movements and Technopolitics …
Cruxên, Wonyoung So, grassroots organizing and social movements, most scholarly writing on Ángeles Martinez …
Data & Society Institute · 24 April 2024 English
Instead of thinking of it normatively, the locus of analysis should be on the social context, who is making the demand to whom, and the political context for which specific …
during the second half of the 20th century, social movements in Latin America strug- gled to find data … governmental institutions.10 If not for the social movements’ demand for y la Reparación en la Argentina …
Data & Society Institute · 24 April 2024 English
While the concept of data publics is rooted in the western notion of publics as a counterweight to state practices, the Korean case illustrates how data publics can complement, and …
(citizens) to act as agents of political reform and social movements.14 pilligi, pik’yŏgagi, nŏmŏsŏgi [Toward a …
Data & Society Institute · 23 April 2024 English
ship has taken shape within the master narrative of modernization and 4 Linnet Taylor and Dennis Broeders, “In the Name of Development: Power, progress — using computing and datafication as …
revelatory that many civil society groups and social movements have made acquiring, analyzing, and present- …
RAND Corporation · 22 April 2024 English
In this report, the authors explore challenges in studying racial bias in police shootings of civilians. They discuss the importance of thinking about bias as a process and its implications …
coverage, and a reality that has gal- vanized social movements, such as Black Lives Matter. Police in the …
ActionAid Association (India) · 21 April 2024 English
Definition of Construction Workers The definition of construction workers in the Building and Other Construction Workers Act, 1996 should be amended and expanded in line with supply and value chains …
grassroot as well as international levels. Social movements in India have a rich history of fostering …
ICG: International Crisis Group · 18 April 2024 English
16 “Memorandum Order 32: Reinforcing the Guidelines for the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police in the Implementation of Measures to Suppress and Prevent Lawless Violence”, …
with international guerrilla, left- ist and social movements. Some of these links endure today. 225 The …
