Legal-Pedagogical Duplas: A pedagogical strategy to teach legal and administrative tools during territorial defense processes by Lina Marcela Mora Cepeda, Gerardo Alatorre Frenk, Juliana Merçon

“…We will begin by reflecting on the construction of knowledge that occurs in environmental movements or social movements that focus their struggles on socio-ecological claims and face socio-environmental conflicts. …”
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Urban Political Ecology in Mexico: Metabolism, conflicts, and the need for transformational pathways in the Valley of Mexico, Guadalajara, and Monterrey by Ana Karen Jiménez Caballero, Diego Sebastián Vidal Origel, Gian Carlo Delgado Ramos, Laura Elena Castro Sánchez

“…In the face of an increasing metabolism of contemporary urbanization, we conclude with a brief consideration of the potential role of socio-ecological conflicts for enabling alternative forms of urban space production, particularly through the agency of social movements, including their capacity to propose and build "urban spaces of hope."…”
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Embroidering care and reciprocity: contributions to food sovereignty by feminist peasant women from the mountains of Veracruz, Mexico by Thelma Mendes Pontes, Juliana Merçon, Citlalli López Binnqüist, Carlos Roberto Cerdán, Gisela Illescas Palma, Denisse García Moreno, Mónica Severiano Hernández, Helda Morales

“…Different authors from academia and social movements point to agroecology as a path to food sovereignty and as a way out of multiple social-ecological crises. …”
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YouTube Itak: a description of Ainu-related videos by Xanat Vargas Meza, R. Shizuko Hayashi-Simpliciano, Takumi Yokoyama, Chieko Nishimura, Ryohei Nishida, Yoichi Ochiai

“…Following the cultural revitalisation of laws and social movements and the appropriation of new technologies, Ainu communities are increasingly using social media to disseminate their culture. …”
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Situating the Nonprofit Industrial Complex by Tyson Singh Kelsall, Jake Seaby Palmour, Rory Marck, A. J. Withers, Nicole Luongo, Kahlied Salem, Cassie Sutherland, Jasmine Veark, Lyana Patrick, Aaron Bailey, Jade Boyd, Q. Lawrence, Mathew Fleury, Alya Govorchin, Nathan Crompton, Chris Vance, Blake Edwards, Anmol Swaich, Amber Kelsall, Meenakshi Mannoe, Portia Larlee, Jenn McDermid

“…The article then explores issues related to colonialism, anti-poor legislation, neoliberal governance, the fusing of the public and private sectors, and the bureaucratization of social movements and care work as mechanisms to uphold the status quo social order and organization of power. …”
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The Idea of Cultural Heritage in Border Neighbourhoods of West-Berlin in 1976–1978 by Marta Domènech-Rodríguez, David López López

“…There was a climate of great tension in the city between the precursors of the urban development plans and the social movements in the affected neighborhoods. The article discusses the extent to which a methodological change was possible, from an approach that obliterated the existing new proposals in order to readjust the role of heritage in the urban reconstruction. …”
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Processos Participativos na Gestão de Universidades Federais: o caso da Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul by Fernanda Mara Peretti, Márcia Luíza Pit Dal Magro, Irme Salete Bonamigo, Dunia Comerlatto

“…The community participatory process of local/regional in interaction with social movements that differentiate the process of creation and organization of the UFFS. …”
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The dynamics of protest diffusion: movement organizations, social networks, and news media in the 1960 sit-ins by Andrews, K, Biggs, M

“…This episode is widely cited in the literature on social movements, but the debate over its explanation remains unresolved—partly because previous research has relied on case studies of a few large cities. …”

Actions speak louder than words: the case for responsible scientific activism in an era of planetary emergency by Wyatt, TD, Gardner, CJ, Thierry, A

“…We argue that in the face of this inaction, scientists can have the maximum amount of influence by lending their support to social movements pressing for action, joining as active participants and considering civil disobedience. …”

Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy : Guidelines for Equitable Theory and Practice / by McDowell, Teresa, author 643463, Knudson-Martin, Carmen, author 643464, Bermudez, J. Maria, author 643465

“…Fitting COAMFTE, CACREP, APA, and CSWE requirements for social justice and cultural diversity, this new edition is revised to include current cultural and societal changes, such as Black Lives Matter, other social movements, and environmental justice. It is an essential textbook for students of marriage, couple, and family therapy and important reading for family therapists, supervisors, counselors, and any practitioner wanting to apply a critical consciousness to their work.…”

Educação ambiental crítica: do socioambientalismo às sociedades sustentáveis Critical environmental education: from socio-environmentalism to sustainable societies by Gustavo Ferreira da Costa Lima

“…Starting from the theoretical and conceptual framework of political ecology, of critical theory, and of complexity thinking, the text problematizes the origins and the political-cultural unfolding, the arguments and social movements that have shaped this pedagogical trend of such marked presence in the Brazilian educational and environmental reality. …”
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Human Security, Individualism and Collectivism by Ashok Natarajan

“…Individualism and collectivism are two competing philosophical and social movements that have divided the world for centuries and trace their origin back to ancient times. …”
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World Histories of Big Data Policing by Brendan McQuade

“…Of course, this scholarship is being in written in the context of both militant social movements within the United States and the terminal decline of U.S. global hegemony. …”
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Quantifying collective identity online from self-defining hashtags by Alexander T. J. Barron, Johan Bollen

“…Hashtags in particular have acted as powerful social coordinators, playing a key role in organizing social movements like the Gezi park protests, Occupy Wall Street, #metoo, and #blacklivesmatter. …”
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Book Review - Francesco Della Puppa & Giuliana Sanò (eds.), Stuck and Exploited. Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Italy Between Exclusion, Discrimination and Struggles; Venezia: Ediz... by Alèxia Rué

“…However, it does not fail to deepen in the particularities of different Italian regions and municipalities, highlighting how the implementation of national and EU policy is interpreted and reinterpreted at the local level and how, within this context, the discretion of “street-level bureaucrats,” as described by Lipsky, and other intermediaries, as well as the actions of social movements or the civil society can become a tool for “debordering” or yet another strategy of further control over migrants’ lives.…”
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Critical Latin American Feminisms: Community-Based, Experience-Based, and Gender-Unraveling by Diana Milena Patiño Niño

“…Originality: This article presents an overview of these feminisms that have been of interest to feminists while providing academic readers with insight into social movements and their language. It could serve as a tool to discuss the relevance of these feminisms and expand the ongoing discussion in Latin America.…”
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Globalizzazione, disuguaglianze e nuovi approcci verso un modello di capitalismo sostenibile by Maria Mirabelli, Vincenzo Fortunato, Antonio Martin Artiles

“…We argue that a paradigm shift is urgently needed, but this will certainly take time and a new governance which requires the involvement of several key political, economic and social actors such as international organizations, national governments, economic organizations along with social movements and no-profit organisations embedded at national and local level. …”
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Espaços públicos como lugares da política/Public spaces as spaces of politics by Paulo Cesar da Costa Gomes, Letícia Parente Ribeiro

“…ABSTRACT The political activation of public spaces is commonly associated with their extraordinary mobilization by large social movements. On the contrary, a strong political significance is rarely attributed to the everyday and ordinary use of these spaces. …”
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Latin American Social Medicine Association: Agenda 2009 – 2011 by Mario Rovere, Nila Heredia Miranda

“…Finally, we congratulate all those who have made this Congress so productive, so moving, and so diverse; the presence of social movements has expanded the diversity and wealth of voices heard at the Congress. …”
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No Commons Without Micropolitics. Learning with Feminist and Municipalist Movements in Spain by Manuela Zechner

“…Emphasizing feminist and micropolitical understandings for commons research as a matter of going beyond technical visions of commons, based in Spanish and Latin American commons thinking, this text emphasizes the contribution of micropolitics as activist analytical lens that places a focus on knowledge production across social movements and institutions, and on the role of the invisible others of organization. …”
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