Socio-Legal Strategies against a Total Abortion Ban in El Salvador: Alliances in Hostile Contexts by María Angélica Peñas Defago, Violeta Cánaves

“…Abstract The case of El Salvador provides unique evidence of how solidarity is possible among different social movements in struggles over abortion law reform and its impact, even in contexts of extreme criminalization. …”
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Blogging down a dictatorship by Last Moyo

“…The Internet is seen as certainly enhancing the people’s right to communicate, but only to a limited extent because of access disparities, on the one hand, and its appropriation by liberal social movements whose configuration is elitist, on the other. …”
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Normal Deviance: The Dreyfus Affair by Marie-Christine Leps

“…Enmeshing issues of security and nation, of population and race, the Dreyfus affair forced governments, intellectuals, media, and what we now refer to as the ‘new social movements’ into wide-ranging debates and strategic interventions that forged new relations among them. …”
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Participations by Mariekie Burger

“…These options are based on different theoretical frameworks that already exist in the field of Development Communication and Social Change, namely: modernisation; dependency disassociation and social movements; Freirean dialogical pedagogy; UNESCO’s media system approach (that foregrounds access, participation and self-management); and participatory communication for development and social change. …”
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Clearing the forest, adding social struggles: territorialities and alternatives in the Argentinian environmental disaster by Joaquin Ulises Deon

“…Likewise, it becomes evident how the State has criminalized these struggles in its attempts to break down the social coalitions built by the assemblies and social movements, involved in building a collective counter hegemony. …”
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A proposta da Base Nacional Comum Curricular e o debate entre 1988 e 2015 by Ileizi Luciana Fiorelli Silva, Henrique Fernandes Alves Neto, Daniel Vitor Vicente

“…Besides these agencies and agents, the various organizations of social movements, economic groups, scientific associations and universities were invited and/or volunteered to participate in the processes of the development of curriculum proposals. …”
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How do transnational grassroots networks reframe the global norms of water and forests governance? by Émilie Dupuits, Géraldine Pflieger

“…This paper addresses the question by adopting a geographical approach of transnational social movements and undertaking a discourse analysis. …”
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Not tourism-phobia but urban-philia: understanding stakeholders’ perceptions of urban touristification by Asunción Blanco-Romero, Macià Blàzquez-Salom, Marc Morell, Robert Fletcher

“…This article problematizes the recent appearance of this term by unravelling the links between the materiality of contemporary urban tourism and the response it receives from social movements opposing its expansion. We endeavour to understand the meaning that different actors involved in the city's touristification attach to this term, and in particular the perceptions of citizens’ movements that claim to espouse not tourism-phobia but urban-philia. …”
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Symbolic reparation, trauma and victimization: The response of the Chilean State to human rights violations (1973-1990) by Javiera Bustamante-Danilo, Alejandra Carreño-Calderón

“…This analysis demonstrates that even though the use of the figure of victim contributed to isolating people who suffered mistreatments and to depoliticize their actions, it is necessary to problematize the potential for collective action of victimhood and its possible dialogues with other contemporary social movements.…”
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THE EMERGENCE OF DEWAN SYARIAH KOTA SURAKARTA: A Precondition by Yusuf Rohmat Yanuri, Wildan Rahmat Hidayat

“…This study makes an important contribution to the literature on social movements, particularly in the context of Islamic movements in Indonesia. …”
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Peace Building and Social Media in a Cosmopolitan Society by I. Omotayo Adeshina

“…Many demonstrations, protests and social movements which utilises the use of non-violence has led some approaches to peacebuilding to focus not only on the root cause(s) of conflict but also on good governance and peaceful dispute settlement mechanisms. …”
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Ubuntu as a Dramaturgical Tool for Building Community in Protests by Refiloe Lepere, Tebogo Radebe

“…Ubuntu as a dramaturgical lens expands the possibilities for analysing social movements and highlights the transformative power of performance in building communities.…”
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Affordances-in-Practice: How Social Norm Dynamics in Climate Change Publics Are Shaped on Instagram and Twitter by Nathalie Van Raemdonck, Ike Picone, Jo Pierson

“…This research provides a deeper insight into the socio-technical processes underlying the (self-)organization of social movements and provides a pathway to investigating discursive practices of online publics on other platforms. …”
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Relaciones entre sociedad y estado en la economía solidaria by Paul Singer

“…The relationship between the State and diverse associations, such as social movements and civil society groups that are located in the realm of the Solidary Economy, is explored. …”
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POLITICAL CRISIS AND SOCIAL PROTEST IN THAILAND by E. V. Koldunova

“…Thet women tioned camps created new social movements – «People's Alliance for Democracy» («Yellow Shirts») and «United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship» («Red Shirts»). …”
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From Loan Sharks to Commercial Banks: Moral Crusades and the Segmentation of the Credit Market in the United States, 1900-1945 by Simon Bittmann

“…This work in economic sociology contributes to a growing body of studies of market moralization processes, but it relies on insights from the sociology of organization, public action, social movements and law in order to understand more precisely how the resolution of a public problem, and the legal evolution it produces, as well as the frames and normative settings on which political action dwells, can impact the shape and the structure of the market. …”
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Social risks of e-learning in a digital society by E. V. Chmykhova

“…The characteristic of risk types has been made in relation to such characteristics of modern society as the complexity of self-organization processes, the open nature and non-linearity of transformation processes.The understanding of various types of risks has been explained, that are associated with the problems of implementing the goals of humanistic educational policy; incomplete integration of methodological tools for e-learning; the break in educational traditions; conflicts between subjects of educational relations; the lack of adaptability of digital technologies to the content of social interaction; the complexity of the nature of distance learning technologies in the modern supercomplex socio-global system; impact on the formalization of learning new types of rationality; objectively inherent in modern society’s global social risks; conflicts of social movements with the interests of the subjects realizing the functions of education; with the indivisibility of the security of complex society in different spheres and levels of social interaction. …”
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Involvement of Russian student youth in Internet communications as a factor in the formation of models of their socio-political activity by E. A. Istyagina-Yeliseeva, C. E. Barijenikova, A. V. Boldyreva

“…Using the methods of mathematical statistical analysis, the forms of Internet activity of young people have been studied and considered as factors of integration values political activities in dispositional personality structure, political orientation and willingness to co-operate with various actors power relations (political institutions, social movements, parties, groups of political activists), as well as acceptable forms of political behavior. …”
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La realidad de mujeres transexuales y sus movimientos sociales en Sudamérica en tiempos de COVID-19 by Alessandra Mawu Defendi Oliveira

“…It is of utmost importance based on the analysis of local and international newspapers, the websites of organizations and social networks, texts on trans health, human rights and gender studies, in addition to interviews with some of the leaders and activists of some of these social movements. Based on this information, our purpose was to structure a criticism around the limits of the State and its power structure, and the absence of trans people in the decisions of the governments; questioning the limited access to health in which these people are victims because rejection of the State against injustices and their support in the marginalization of these identities.…”
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HANNAH ARENDT E A QUESTÃO NEGRA NA DESSEGREGAÇÃO DA ESCOLA DE LITTLE ROCK, 1957 by Danilo Arnaldo Briskievicz, Amauri Carlos Ferreira

“…We briefly recount the struggle of the American social movements linked to the black issue until the Little Rock case. …”
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