Unmasking Currents: Thinking Power and War with Foucault and the Black Panthers by Jason Demers

“…Rather than pursuing claims about causal-chronological influence, the article teases out undercurrents—Nietzsche, Mao, Clausewitz, and revolutionary activist projects—that act as sites of confluence with respect to power and war. …”
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Robert Lafont, candidat des « minorités nationales » à l’élection présidentielle de 1974 by Damien Canavate

“…This article explores the disqualified candidacy of Occitan activist and intellectual Robert Lafont in the 1974 French presidential election within the broader context of regionalist claims in post-1968 France. …”
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Coming Out in Poland by Tomasz Basiuk

“…Moreover, a contemporary call for Polish lesbian women and gay men to come out in order to promote marriage equality seems more directly aligned with the present-day U.S. political context than with any broadly accepted local activist position on the question of same-sex marriage. …”
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L’art engagé : images de résistance, de résilience et de reconstruction humanitaire. by Dima Nachawi, Michela Villani

“…Dima Nachawi’s artistic writing is, at times, reminiscent of illustrative drawings for children, which she uses in humanitarian work, where she is engaged both as artist and as a social activist. For her, art is a support, images of resilience, constitute a visual aid to reconstruction.…”
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The Role of Religion in the Lives, Agency, and Activism of Domestic Worker Leaders by Susheela Mcwatts

“…In this article, I explore the role that religious institutions such as churches have played in shaping the activist identities of domestic worker leaders whom I have inter-viewed, and the centrality of religion in these women’s lives, against a back-drop of their own life circumstances, the employers they worked for, and the larger political climate in their own countries. …”
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La Greta Thunberg du Le grand livre du climat by Ludovic Aubin, Renaud Hétier, Cécile Redondo, Nathanaël Wallenhorst

“…Our study focuses on Greta Thunberg and her Great Climate Book, with a view to identifying the key principles that inspire democratic socialisation in and through education. This contemporary activist is involved in media coverage of the climate and ecological cause, and embodies a message that concerns the transmission of biogeophysical scientific knowledge, and a political and media commitment to achieving socio-political breakthroughs that will guarantee the sustainability of human life in society in the Anthropocene epoch. …”
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Profit, Porn, and Protease Inhibitors: Ronnie Burk’s Radical Activism in “Post-AIDS” San Francisco by Victoria Carroll

“…In early 2000 gay Latino poet Ronnie Burk courted controversy when he posted a quasi-pornographic activist flyer depicting the Executive Director of the San Francisco AIDS Foundation masturbating with a dildo inscribed with AZT on the website of the controversial San Francisco-based offshoot of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power. …”
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C’est la cité ! by Philippe Woloszyn, Paul Girard

“…This implementation of an activist stance is analysed from the perspective of the spatial language adopted by the camera within the landscape of the Clairière des Aubiers, a large Bordeaux housing project where the video clip was filmed. …”
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Gender Revolution in a Malthusian Utopia: Harriet Martineau’s world of Garveloch by Catherine Heyrendt-Sherman

“…Undeterred by her detractors, Martineau carried on as a pioneer and political activist.…”
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« Récupérer le sexe qui m’a été volé » : la sexualité comme affirmation de soi chez Asaka Yûho by Anne-Lise Mithout

“…The text, written from an activist’s perspective, intends both to condemn social barriers weighing upon disabled people’s sexuality in Japan, and to narrate the author’s individual struggle for romantic and sexual fulfillment. …”
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Acts of Exposure: Reckoning with Representations of HIV and Sexual Identity in Morocco by Anne M. Montgomery, Abderrahim El Habachi

“…This article presents a hybrid, co-authored exchange between an American academic and scholar of Morocco, Anne Montgomery, and a Moroccan writer and activist, Abderrahim El Habachi. It is a multi-textual work that was produced through an experimental, collaborative method. …”
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Dr. Jonas Basanavičius (1851–1927) and his nervous disease by A. Ulytė, E. Sakalauskaitė-Juodeikienė

“… Doctor Jonas Basanavičius (1851–1927) was the patriarch of the Lithuanian nation, activist in the Lithuanian national revival, a physician, politician, scholar, and editor of the first Lithuanian-language newspaper Auszra. …”
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Les archives, un outil dans la construction d’un rapport de force féministe : l’exemple d’un groupe féministe et syndical by Maëva Ballon, Flaz Torres

“…Finally, the process of production of our group's records constitutes in itself a feminist practice.Through examples of activist objects, digital tools and formats we illustrate the construction of a singular feminist power struggle. …”
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Human-Bird Conflicts and Management Issues: A Case Study of Birds at Uppalapadu Lake, Andhra Pradesh, India by P. Rama Chandra Prasad, J. Asha Kumari, Manju Mathew, Rosina Thomas

“…The study highlights the ways the local community, Forest Department, activist groups and other organizations participate in protecting the birds from harm. …”
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Etudiantes américaines, militantisme et guerre du Vietnam : guerre, paix et « genre » dans les années 1960 by Alexandra Boudet-Brugal

“…Thus, this paper explores what made up the female activist experience. I will then remark on the perception(s) of their roles that oscillated between tradition and change. …”
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Writing Yourself Home: US Veterans, Creative Writing, and Social Activism by Frank Usbeck

“…It interprets the proliferation of veterans’ writing projects as part of a civic activist movement that, postulating a social crisis in civil-military relationships, seeks to address veterans’ social and emotional struggles through community (re)building and social therapy. …”
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Inji Efflatoun entre le pinceau et la plume : « L’exposition de la révolutionnaire » by Nadine Atallah

“…A leading figure in modern Egyptian art, Efflatoun made a name for herself with her dual career as a painter and Marxist, feminist and anti-colonialist activist. While pursuing her artistic training, she organised her exhibition against the backdrop of the Suez Crisis, which heralded the 23 July Revolution and accelerated the struggles for national independence. …”
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Teaching for a Broken World by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

“…The imperatives of planetarity are touched on. Activist reading is seen as a relay race. We are reminded that every self-declared rupture is also an unacknowledged repetition. …”
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Book Review: Decolonizing the Mind (by Sandew Hira) by Patrick Delices

“…This non-Westernised narrative is deeply discussed in Decolonizing the Mind : A Guide to Decolonial Theory and Practice by decolonial scholar, economist, historian and activist Sandew Hira. The aim of Hira’s Decolonizing the Mind is to deeply engage decolonial theory and practice as an alternative to the prominent thinking of the West as illuminated in liberalism and Marxism. …”
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Luderen, akademikeren og manifestet: by Kira Skovbo Moser

“…Since the first wave of feminism, the manifesto genre has been used as an activist tool by feminists in the West. However, the genre, being traditionally both masculine and masculinist, is causing resistance when adapted by feminist agendas. …”
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