Testimonio and Counterstorytelling by Immigrant-Origin Children and Youth: Insights That Amplify Immigrant Subjectivities by Ariana Mangual Figueroa, Wendy Barrales

“…Our theoretical and methodological framework centers on testimonio—a narrative practice popularized in Latin American social movements in which an individual recounts a lived experience that is intended to be representative of a collective struggle. …”
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The ‘Righteous Anger’ of the PowerlessInvestigating Dalit Outrage over Caste Violence by Nicolas Jaoul

“…The paper engages critically with the sterile and biased concept of ‘axiological neutrality’ and advocates instead the heuristic possibilities enabled by the ethnographers’ personal exposure to the emotion work performed by social movements. The protest’s ideological stance illustrates the politically marginalised Dalits’ appropriation of democratic conceptions through the language of injustice and outrage. …”
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«Norge ligger på dette området langt fremme i forhold til de fleste land»: Utdanning for bærekraftig utvikling i Norge og Sverige by Ingerid S. Straume

“…Back in the 1970s and 80s it was quite common to observe a strong commitment to social movements and political causes in educational settings. …”
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UNIVERSIDADE PÚBLICA, DEMOCRÁTICA E POPULAR: OS DESAFIOS DA IMPLANTAÇÃO DA UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA FRONTEIRA SUL by Vicente de Paula Almeida Júnior, Kelly Cristina Benetti Tonani Tosta

“…Thus, it demonstrates the importance of considering the environment as a key part in building policies and strategies of an institution that is born from the demands of the social movements. It aims to ensure access to public and quality higher education, professional qualifying and commitment to social inclusion and development of education, research and extension as a condition of existence of a critical, researcher and innovator teaching. …”
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The Food Sovereignty Project by Salma Loudiyi

“…First paragraph: In The Politics of Food Sovereignty: Concept, Practice and Social Movements, editors Annie Shattuck, Christina Schiavoni, and Zoe VanGelder bring together some of the seminal contributions of the Yale McMillan Center Agrarian Studies Program’s 2013 conference focused on food sovereignty (“Food Sovereignty: A Critical Dialogue”). …”
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Back to the Origin? Popular Sovereignty from French Revolution to Current Anti-Corruption Movements: the Spanish Case in Historical Perspective by Loris Caruso

“…Popular sovereignty has been the fundamental claim of the first social movements born in Europe in the second half of the eighteenth century. …”
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The Relationship between Religion and Society in the COVID-19 Era: The Case of Protestantism in South Korea by Minah Kim

“…Progressive Protestants participated in social movements to benefit the public good and were willing to forgo religious gatherings to that end. …”
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Exploring Multimodality and Multiliteracies in Public University contexts for student-teachers of English as an Additional Language by Viviane Maria Heberle, Fábio Alexandre Silva Bezerra, Roseli Gonçalves do Nascimento

“…The project at the Federal University of Paraíba, entitled Reading the verbal text and the image in contemporary media, focuses mainly on Brazilian magazine covers (and their related articles), addressing various issues such as the representation of social movements, of women’s identities, masculinities and teachers’ identities. …”
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The Real of the Virtual: Critical Reflections on Web 2.0 by Christos Boikos, Konstantinos Moutsoulas, Charalambos Tsekeris

“…In addition, the analytical emphasis on recent social movements, such as the Arab Spring, reflexively depicts the new media as critical media, a characteristic feature that somehow stands in contrast to the participation of the internet in the circulation and accumulation of the Capital. …”
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Uninventing Carceral Technology: Four Experiments in Imagining the World More Rigorously by Barabas, Chelsea Marie

“…Against a backdrop of burgeoning social movements, data-driven technologies have become an important terrain of struggle. …”
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Buying stability: The distributive outcomes of private politics in the Bolivian mining industry by Amengual, M

“…Social movements and interest groups in developing countries increasingly challenge large firms to influence their behavior and make direct claims for redistribution of the gains from economic activity. …”

Pouvoir parler des pesticides ? Une recherche-action pour éprouver les capabilités des travailleurs viticoles (Gironde, France) by Ludovic Ginelli, Jacqueline Candau, Agossè Nadège Degbelo, Camille Noûs

“…This configuration of pesticide use "transition" raises health, environmental and social justice issues, as do specific social movements, such as Environmental Justice in the United States or "ecologism of the poor" in the South (Martinez-Alier, 2014). …”
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PRAXIS AND THE INTERNATIONAL (HUMAN RIGHTS) LAW SCHOLAR: TOWARD THE INTENSIFICATION OF TWAILIAN DRAMATURGY by Obiora Chinedu Okafor

“…The article critically reflects on the role of the TWAILian international (human rights) law scholar in the socio-economic and political struggles which take place outside the academe; focusing, for the most part, on our role as scholars in advancing struggles in favour of subaltern Third World peoples from within or in concert with international institutions and various kinds of what I will refer to in this paper as “on-the-ground” activist groups (such as social movements and NGOs). The article begins by examining some of the various ideas and conceptions of praxis, so as to be clear from the outset as to the sense in which that key term is used in this context. …”
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Social Changes in America: The Silent Cinema Frontier and Women Pioneers by Alicia Inge Peng

“…This article explores pioneering American women in the silent film industry who ventured into technology, film culture, marginalized communities, and social movements. Despite the prevalence of racist and sexist propaganda, American silent films were a frontier for innovation, filmmaking, and exploring the New Women concept. …”
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Because the machine can discriminate: How machine learning serves and transforms biological explanations of human difference by Jeffrey W. Lockhart

“…Research on scientific/intellectual movements, and social movements generally, tends to focus on resources and conditions outside the substance of the movements, such as funding and publication opportunities or the prestige and networks of movement actors. …”
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I Am What I Do—Negative Work as a Lens for the Study of Movement Chaplaincy by Edda Stephanie Wolff

“…It suggests that the evolving interest in the role of spirituality within social movements, coupled with initiatives like the Daring Compassion project, signifies a synergy between academic exploration and practical spiritual care provision. …”
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Radical Mobilization in Times of Crisis: Use and Effects of Appeals and Populist Communication Features in Telegram Channels by Pablo Jost, Leyla Dogruel

“…Social crisis situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic provide a fertile ground for radical actors and social movements to strengthen their radical mobilization—mainly using social media. …”
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Looking to the Horizon: The Meanings of Reparations for Unbearable Crises by Sarah Riley Case

“…Reparations can enact legal relations that are meaningful to those “on the bottom,” and emancipatory for everyone, when communities and social movements define them.…”
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Recepcja wartości w środowisku międzynarodowym jako determinanta przeobrażeń świadomości społecznej w wymiarze globalnym by Chmara Ewa

“…Most of those disadvantages has argued how necessary global social movements are to neutralize global disproportions. …”
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Condição humana, condição cidadã: um ensaio sobre a dignidade da política e os desafios do novo Estado democrático by Adelia Maria Miglievich Ribeiro

“…Key words: social theory, postmodern critique, social movements.…”
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