Fight for Centrality and Self-management of Space. The Movement of Occupants and Tenants in Buenos Aires by Ibán Díaz Parra

“…The Movement of Occupants and Tenants (MOI by its Spanish acronym) is currently one of the best examples of the revindication of the right to the city in Buenos Aires, as well as the capacity of grassroots organizations to create and re-create the urban space. …”
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Barriers and facilitators regarding the implementation of policies and programmes aimed at reducing adolescent pregnancy in Ghana: an exploratory qualitative study by Melissa Kang, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah, Lin Perry, Fiona Brooks

“…Objectives This study explored the perceived barriers and facilitators regarding the implementation of policies and programmes aimed at reducing adolescent pregnancy among health and education professionals (‘professionals’), grassroots workers and adolescent girls in Ghana.Design and setting We employed an exploratory qualitative study design involving interviews with professionals, grassroots workers and adolescent girls in the Central Region of Ghana.Participants This study involved 15 professionals employed in government or non-governmental organisations, 15 grassroots workers and 51 pregnant/parenting and non-pregnant adolescent girls.Data analysis Thematic analysis was conducted deductively using the ecological framework for understanding effective implementation.Results Eighteen themes mapped to the five domains of the ecological framework emerged. …”
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Smart surgical telementoring system with patch-to-pixel point tracking method by Yanwei Qu, Ling Li, Tongtong Li, Jieyu Zheng, Wentao Tang, Xiaojian Li

“…The utilization of surgical telementoring has become increasingly prevalent in enhancing the surgical standards of grassroots hospitals in contemporary times. In the traditional framework of surgical telementoring, remote doctors guide grassroots doctors via video and audio communication, which may encounter obstacles such as inadequate information transfer and challenges in accurately pinpointing the surgical site and path. …”
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INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS IN QUASI-FEDERALISM: THE PLACE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION FOR EFFECTIVE SERVICE DELIVERY IN NIGERIA by CHIDI FRANKLIN UZOIGWE, ERNEST ARINZE UDALLA

“…The essence is to effectively provide services for the masses especially, the grassroots. This paper identified the impact of intergovernmental relations on grassroots service delivery in Nigeria, using some selected local government areas in Anambra State as a study focus. …”
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Re-imagining education in Haiti through a lens of de-coloniality by Rudolph Damas

“…Research limitations/implications – Since barriers such as societal norms need to be addressed through organic grassroots movements, which take time to be effective, reform from this perspective is better suited for the longer term than the shorter term. …”
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Financial documents of Komsomol organizations as the source of Komsomol history in 1960s by E. V. Kamaeva

“…The documents of the regional Komsomol organizations reflect the material condition and financial support of grassroots committees. The author notes a certain complexity of the classification of financial documents in modern source criticism literature. …”
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Coping with Psychosis and Schizophrenia: Family Stories of Hope and Recovery By Juliana Onwumere, David Shiers and Elizabeth Kuipers Cambridge University Press. 2024. £14.99 (pb).... by Rachel Bannister

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The “Background Conditions” of the Hedge Fund in General Electric’s Schenectady: Reconsidering the “History of Capitalism” by David Huyssen

“…This article applies Nancy Fraser’s theory of capitalism’s “background conditions” to a grassroots case study: the formative influences of Progressive-Era Schenectady’s social relations on the socialist who created the hedge fund, Alfred Winslow Jones. …”
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The level of individual participation of community in implementing effective solid waste management policies by A. Brotosusilo, S.H. Nabila, H.A. Negoro, D. Utari

“…It was concluded that individuals’ participation could be enhanced by hosting various social activities at the grassroots level. The study’s gaps show that the Jakarta Provincial Government has a high propensity towards increasing individuals’ participation in solid waste management by maximizing control of the factors mentioned above (especially empowerment), as well as by raising the frequency of citizens’ involvement in social community activities at the grassroots level.…”
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Gestão participativa e política de patrimônio no Município de Belo Horizonte: realidade ou mito? by Nilo Lima de Azevedo, Tarcísio Rodrigues Botelho

“…It particularly tries to assess whether the Council was able to establish a decentralization process and a broad grassroots participation in the implementation of the municipal public policy in this area by bringing to the political discussion arena representative organizations of the various takeholders.…”
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Direct Democracy on Election Day: Ballot Measures as Measures of American Democracy by Donna Kesselman

“…S. states where they raise grassroots and often controversial “wedge issues”, they also have spill-over effects in other areas of politics and civil engagement. …”
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Traitement des déchets et santé environnementale : la science, un facteur d’acceptabilité locale ? L’exemple de l’incinérateur à Fos-sur-Mer by Isabelle Hajek

“…Environmental health considerations appear to have created a focal point for the local mobilization of indigenous and grassroots resistance to waste management. The evolution of waste composition and blends of molecules generated by waste processing techniques start raising a new ecological health issue linked to their local environment. …”
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Basic Income Grant, Communities, Indigenous Knowledge Systems – Imagining the New South African Society by Mongane Serote

“… Introduction For Africans to live and thrive as a people we must, as a nation, commit social and cultural suicide, so that parts of our nation come out of merely being the Masses and Grassroots. We must resurrect, reclaim, recreate, reawaken, embrace and nurture the belief and culture which lie deep in our hearts and minds, which we achieved through a fierce and protracted liberation struggle, based on the belief that... …”
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Écrire À partir de la parole ou l’appréhension des souvenirs : une réélaboration au présent du passé récent en Argentine by Paula Sombra

“…It presents a way of thinking about the past via the reinterpretative construction of the biographies of two groups of people: one belonging to an armed organization, the Peronist Armed Forces (FAP), and the other to the concurrent, unarmed Grassroots Peronism (PB). Emphasis is placed upon the verbal configuration of the contemporary accounts that emerge from the recollections of collective memory, while still distinguishing between lived experience and declarations.…”
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A ascensão dos pobres a posições de elite político-administrativa no contexto do Cabo Verde pós-independente by Crisanto Barros

“…This article aims to analyze the rise of grassroots individuals to the political and administrative elite with the institutionalization of the National State from 1975 onwards. …”
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Librarians’ and teachers’ conceptions of multiliteracies in the context of Finnish curriculum reform by Siinamari Ylivuori, Anu Ojaranta

“…There is a need for conceptual clarification of multiliteracies both in grassroots-level work and in the curriculum context to avoid multiple interpretations of the concept and to guide how multiliteracies could be pedagogically implemented.…”
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Transforming global governance: Crafting sustainable peace through Global South perspectives by Ibrahim Khan

“…It also emphasises the importance of grassroots movements and disarmament efforts in achieving lasting peace. …”
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Art Education as Social Experience: Victor D’Amico and the Origins of MoMA’s Progressive Educational Project by Elena Sidorova

“…Secondly, it analyzes the grassroots of five progressive art education initiatives launched by MoMA’s founding Director of the Department of Education Victor D’Amico in 1937-1969. …”
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TOWARDS DOING PRACTICAL INTEGRAL MISSION: by V Magezi, C Mutowa

“…It is also an empirical case study of leadership and grassroots (implementation) level staff to show the differences that may exist and weaken integral mission efforts. …”
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Aporia of Participatory Planning: Framing Local Action in the Entrepreneurial City by Ryan Love

“…This essay examines the hegemonic-discursive barriers facing local action in cities today, first, by revisiting the New Left/Frankfurt School critique of modern institutions, which not incidentally proved a key inspirational source for the original grassroots movements of the 1960s and 1970s. In this first section of the essay, Adorno's analysis of the Culture Industry is reconsidered alongside Berger’s and Bourdieu's critical sociology. …”
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