Un cinéma affranchi du contrôle de l’État by Nicolas Appelt

“…The Syrian conflict is reflected, among others, in a flood of images: in the propaganda of the regime, in the Organization of the Islamic State (OEI), in testimonies of activists or reporters. Parallel to those videos broadcasted on television or posted on social media, a Syrian cinematic creation persists outside the official production channels of the regime and despite difficulties. …”
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Actions, Photos and Political Practice: Anthropological Contributions to the Social Production of Politics by Julieta Gaztañaga

“…We differentiate two socially significant perspectives for the actors involved: as political activists and the managers of public infrastructure projects. …”
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La révolution tunisienne : interactions entre militantisme de terrain et mobilisation des réseaux sociaux by Zeineb Touati

“…We bring to light the changing role of social networks throughout the protests in Tunisia between December 17, 2010 (date of the first gatherings) and January 14, 2011 (date of Ben Ali’s departure) in response to the needs of on-the-ground mobilization and evolution of activists and protesters’ involvement. We specify the reasons and goals of the use of social networks and point out differences with the 2008 revolt in the mining area of Gafsa.…”
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 Le temps du travail by Luca Rimoldi

“…In this article I will be presenting fragments of some of the conversations had with trade union activists and militants of the Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (CGIL) Italian Trade Union, who were working at Pirelli-Bicocca in ’68 and ’69. …”
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British Environmentalism: A Party in Movement? by Brendan Prendiville

“…Protection of the environment in Britain has a long history going back to the Victorian era when the first activists struggled against the damage caused by industrialisation in the large urban centres. …”
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Les ambiances des hydrocarbures by Tobias Etienne-Greenwood

“…It is this subterranean atmosphere that penetrates, swathes, and finally disturbs the worlds of everyday life that activists and inhabitants alike describe in their testimonies and practices. …”
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« Notre solidarité n’est pas une solidarité de salon » : le lesbianisme politique décolonial des Lesbiennes of Color (LOCs) face aux nationalismes sexuels by Blase A. Provitola

“…American queer theory, including queer of color critique, is often evoked in France to analyze the growing inclusion of certain so-called “progressive” sexual values within the nation. Yet more and more activists, as well as some academics, are calling for greater attention to local genealogies of decolonial and anti-heteronormative resistance in the struggle against sexual nationalisms. …”
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Le mouvement féministe et l’art en Midi-Pyrénées dans les années 1970-1980 by Jessica Ibre 

“…Other artists, feminists in their commitment, were also active at that time. But all, creative activists and militant artists, oppose art as individual research to a collective political movement like feminism. …”
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Genre, ethnicité et participation politique : le cas des femmes kurdes en Iran by Fatemeh Karimi

“…For the analysis of these elements, this article looks at the experiences of former activists and fighters of Komala, a far-left Kurdish political organization. …”
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Les militantes anarchistes individualistes : des femmes libres à la Belle Époque by Anne Steiner

“…As individualist anarchist activists, they did not believe that revolution or insurrectional strikes could prevail in a near future and refused to be in the position of a sacrificed generation. …”
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« No Lady Prison didn’t improve me none ». Luttes anti-carcérales et luttes féministes après Attica by Jean Bérard

“…The article aims to sketch out the history of these relationships by taking prison revolts as a starting point and analysing how dissensions have occurred between activists who initially shared the denunciation of incarceration as a repressive tool. …”
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Roots of 20th-Century Western Counterculture: From Guillem Rovirosa’s Catalonia to Its Antipode by José Andrés-Gallego

“…The point of departure for this essay is the first part of the life of Guillem Rovirosa (1915–1934), before he became one of the most important social activists in post-war Spain. During those years he abandoned his Catholic faith and, accompanied by a few friends, embarked on a journey of exploration through Esperanto, naturism, spiritualism, and theosophy. …”
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What is not in a name? Toponymic ambivalence, identity, and symbolic resistance in the Nepali flatlands by Darshan Karki, Miriam Wenner

“…Drawing on interviews with politicians, activists, political analysts, and journalists we propose to understand toponyms as temporary anchor points around which elites strategically assemble otherwise ambivalent identities to place demands in ways that are understandable to state officials. …”
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Comunicación y empoderamiento ciudadano en salud: un caso de investigación-acción en la Venezuela polarizada by Nahón-Serfaty, Isaac, Eid, Mahmoud

“…An action-research project was implemented in Venezuela from 2009-2013 to empower social activists and patients in their fight against breast cancer (BC). …”
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Femmes, musulmanes, libanaises du Sud : revendiquer une place par l’islam by Kinda Chaib

“…Research has been conducted on female activists of the suburbs of Beirut but nothing has been done on the women of South Lebanon, a rural region in direct contact with the Israeli occupation. …”
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Islamic Feminism in Morocco: A Generational Comparison Between Fatima Mernissi and Asma Lamrabet by Francesca Neri

“… This article aims to analyse Islamic feminism in Morocco through the exegetical work carried out by two Moroccan activists, Fatima Mernissi (1940-2015) and Asma Lamrabet (b. 1961). …”
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Un militantisme aux allures de mission impossible : l’exemple du lobby républicain pro-choice, la Republican Majority for Choice by Françoise Coste

“…Yet, an undeniable rift is widening between RMC activists and the Bush administration, as the president’s acute social conservatism and reckless spending violate the basic tenets of the social moderation and fiscal conservatism of pro-choice Republicans.…”
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Engagements étudiants en Algérie post-22 février. Sociohistoire d’un mouvement « désenchanté » by Siham Beddoubia

“…We still have to think about their future as activists...…”
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« Qui sème le vent récolte la tapette ». L’éclosion du militantisme homosexuel en région dans les années 1970 by Mathias Quéré 

“…Beyond the quest for visibility, the activists strove to build a true political movement, in tune with the time and in close partnership with the feminist movement. …”
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Le gouvernement sécuritaire palestinien au prisme de l’émeute by Minas Ouchaklian

“…The article discusses how Palestinian authority and grassroots activists respond to these events, and questions how these are spoken of, and often ignored, by camp residents. …”
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