Les relations de frontière entre le Portugal et l’Espagne au temps de la dictature dans l’œuvre d’Álvaro Cunhal/Manuel Tiago by João Carlos Vitorino Pereira

“…In his literary work, the transgressive crossing of frontiers, during the dictatorship and the Cold War, contributed to the heroisation of communist activists and the clandestine apparatus of the pcp. …”
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De l’engagement collectif à la parole éclatée : une étude sur les mécanismes du silence après Gênes 2001 by François Dumasy

“…Based on interviews conducted twenty years after the event, this article examines how the Genoa G8 counter-summit in 2001 has been a driving force behind new forms of mobilization, bringing together activists most of whom had no real militant background. …”
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Edward Jurgens i Karol Ruprecht. Polacy z wyboru wobec polskich ruchów niepodległościowych w XIX wieku by Tadeusz Stegner

“…Edward Jurgens was one of the leading activists of the Whites faction, who was arrested and then died in 1863 in the infamous tenth pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel. …”
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Editorial by Sarojini Nadar, Fatima Seedat

“…The findings and recommendations of the report were celebrated by gender activists who welcomed the recognition of the CGE that this scheme was marked by culturally patriarchal ideals of women’s bodies. …”
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Yu Xiusong’s personnel files as a historical source in the study of communist movement in China by Natalia L. Mamaeva

“…In the spirit of the times, Russian researchers are increasingly turning to the study of archival materials that shed light on the activism of prominent Chinese political activists. Yu Xiusong’s Personnel Files, kept in the collections of Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, is one of the principal sources on his life and activities. …”
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Identifying method for opinion leaders in social network based on competency model by Bo CHEN, Xiang-yan TANG, Ling YU, Ya-shang LIU

“…A competency model of opinion leaders in social networks is presented，which includes three capacity factors，some explicit and implicit behavioral indicators.These characteristics of information production，information dissemination and information influence which opinion leaders should have.Based on the proposed competency model，social network users into four categories which divided:the general public，the activists，the topic opinion leaders and network opinion leaders.Then a hierarchical filtering process is designed and a system framework of filtering experimental for identifying opinion leaders is introduced.It takes the data extracted from the Sina microblog as input，then integrates some social network analysis tools such as MALLET，and develops the programs for specific functions with Python.Eventually，the opinion leaders of microblog can be identified.The experiment results prove the effectiveness of present competency model for opinion leaders and the feasibility of hierarchical filtering process.…”
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Unpacking the Socio-Political Background of the Evolution of Boko Haram in Northern Nigeria: A Social Movement Theory Approach by Kingsley E. Amaechi, Rendani Tshifhumulo

“…The argument is that these are enabling mobilization resources and political opportunities upon which initial BH activists established the organization in the region. …”
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AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AS THE BASIS OF IDENTITY POLICY IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION by O. Yu. Yakhshiyan, V. A. Volokh

“…The discussion showed an ambiguous attitude of ethnic activists in the republics to the set parameters of identity policy. …”
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Legal Guerilla: Jurisdiction, Time, and Abortion Access in Mexico City by Amy Krauss

“…In closing, she argues that feminist activists who work to create access and people who seek abortion enact their own forms of “legal guerilla” as they move through these overlapping and contradictory legalities.…”
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L’arrivée de la libération gay en France. Le Front Homosexuel d’Action Révolutionnaire (FHAR) by Michael Sibalis

“…The Homosexual Front for Revolutionary Action (FHAR), founded in Paris in March 1971 by a small group of lesbians and homosexual men, marked a new direction in homosexual activism in France by breaking with the discretion and respectability preached by Arcadie, a “homophile” movement launched by André Baudry in 1954. The new homosexual activists who joined the FHAR drew their revolutionary rhetoric from left-wing militants of May 1968. …”
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The Ariege ‘Refuge’: Advantage and Diversity of a Host Topography by William Berthomière, Christophe Imbert

“…Drawing on the life histories of refugee activists in the French department of Ariège, we reveal a complex territoriality that, depending on the spaces considered, produces singular and distinct forms of mobilisation, inherited from past migratory experiences, the engagement of neo-rurals and the social networks linking mountains, valleys, piedmont towns and the Toulouse conurbation. …”
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Une révolution presque sereine : la déségrégation des écoles à Washington en 1954 by Ludivine Gilli

“…Beginning in 1947, parents and civic organizations protested relentlessly in the streets and in the courts, after local activists had obtained the end of segregated theaters as early as 1946. …”
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The Audiovisual Archive in an Era of Disinformation and Misinformation by Jacqueline Pietsch, in collaboration with the MediaNumeric Team

“…In convivial conversation they speak from their experience at the French National Audiovisual Institute INA, The Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, the EBU Academy, the Spanish RTVE archive and WITNESS, a human rights non-profit organisation based the United States that supports activists in archiving and preserving their video. …”
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A Review of Dying for Freedom: Political Martyrdom in South Africa by Jacob Dlamini (Polity Press, 2024). by Taurayi Munemo

“…Championed by the ideas of political activists like Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko, political deaths during apartheid were interpreted as one’s passport to a heroic legacy, an experience one had to look forward to. …”
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Néomuralisme et militantisme féministe dans l’Argentine du XXIe siècle by Caroline Prévost

“…From then on, a young female generation of artist-activists took over public spaces in order to turn them into forums for citizen expression, participation and deliberation. …”
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Youth and the politics of generational memories: The Soweto uprising in South Africa by Sandrine Gukelberger

“…This article deals with the individual histories of local politicians and activists in urban South Africa (Cape Town), in which the past is situated in relation to the present. …”
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L’autoreprésentation de femmes en conflit : les récits d’emprisonnement des suffragettes by Christian Auer

“…Constance Lytton’s Prisons and Prisoners and Annie Kenney’s Memories of a Militant feature among the most interesting narratives that were written by imprisoned suffragettes.Although it should be kept in mind that Prisons and Prisoners and Memories of a Militant are subjective constructions written by dedicated activists, the two narratives provide some fundamental information on the prison conditions of the suffragettes. …”
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Conflicting Blackness in Predator 2 by Łukasz Muniowski

“…This article revisits the movie in the times of Black Lives Matter in order to show how 30 years after its release, it provides a complex, more nuanced picture of race in America of that time. As BLM activists demonstrate, the urban African American is a victim of racial and class profiling. …”
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Tourism, Imaginaries and Identities: reversing the point of view by Bernard Debarbieux

“…It explains that a decisive condition of such an instrumentralization lies in the capacity of a social group or local stakeholders (the Chamoniards, Italo-américains of Little Italy, gay activists in Manchester) to promote the imaginary of a very specific place, to present themselves as being highly dependant of this place, in order to build a spatial equivalence between a tourist place and the place of their cultural and political demonstration.…”
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De Revolutionibus by Franz Josef Brüseke

“…In the last decade of the nineteenth century the social democratic field was divided into ideological strands that go from one moderate-wing approach, that favored the political work of small steps within the law, bypassing the so called center-Marxist with a majority in the presidency of Social Democratic Party, to even more activists' groups, which defended a "revolutionary" break with bourgeois society as such. …”
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