Les Pollueurs: luttes sociales et pollution industrielle
by Guérin-Henni, Anne, Paty, Dominique
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Monograph on social movements of the 1970s to combat industryal pollution of the environment (incl. Work environment) in France - reports on two major industrial enterprises causing air pollution and water pollution through asbestos, fluorides and other toxic substances, reviews…
Montre que l'automne 2010 a vu croître un des plus impressionnants mouvements sociaux depuis Mai 68 en France. Analyse ce mouvement et tente "à chaud" de le resituer dans une perspective longue, celles des luttes sociales et des mouvements de contestation du néolibéralisme, de l…
The goal of this master’s thesis is to investigate approaches to the opioid epidemic in the Piedmont Triad Region in North Carolina. Through interviews and case study methodologies, I examine the history, functions, and resource mobilization of CURE Triad, a local organization f…
The Contentious collective action and mobilization theories have had limited success in explaining why individuals mobilize for action in authoritarian societies. The theory of political inclusion provides a new perspective into a movement as a whole while remaining parsimonious…
Student activists have been an historic driver of higher education social justice reform. While this form of leadership is central to improving equity outcomes in higher education, scholars and practitioners often view organizational change as a top-down process centering senior…
Deconstruction is a philosophical concept that sounds difficult to understand. However, if people can realize its core and the way it works, they will know that it is a method that everyone can repeatedly use in their daily life to open up their minds.
Over the last decade, the political landscape in India has been dominated by the upsurge of Right-wing Hindu nationalism. Hindu nationalist goals are sought to be achieved through the ideology of communalism. Communalism is both a process and an ideology of collective antagonism…
Since the discovery of oil in the Niger Delta in 1958, there has been an ongoing low-level conflict among foreign oil companies, the federal government, and rural community members in southern Nigeria. Armed insurgents and small cadres of male protesters have resisted oil activi…
This study investigates the mechanisms through which social movement organizations (SMOs) are able to impact mass public opinion through framing processes. Past research has failed to find significant impact of SMOs upon current attitudes of mass publics. This failure is due to …
Gush Emunim was a social movement at the periphery of the Israeli society, but became a major influence on its domestic and foreign policy. The movement's power was constrained by a variety of stakeholders willing to trade land for peace. This study focuses on the finding that t…
What determines the outcome of social movements in authoritarian contexts? I advance an argument that demonstrates that in order to be successful in authoritarian contexts, social movements need to possess prior organizations and networks with weak ties that are capable of trans…
In the early morning hours of June 14th, 2006, Oaxacan state and municipal police advanced upon the twenty-seventh annual teachers union plantón (encampment) in an attempted desalojo (eviction). The following events caught everyone by surprise as multitudes of Oaxacan civil soci…
This work brings an anticolonial Indigenous reading to the history of social movements in Somalia to highlight the different moments in which Somali peoples have mobilized around key issues to seek social-political transformation. The liberation movements inspired generations of…
In order to better understand the Muslim Brotherhood's role in contemporary Egyptian politics, this paper studies how the Brotherhood's development has been shaped by interaction with the strong secular state and the changing political environment. By examining how social moveme…
How and when do non-state actors matter? To date, the growing political salience of non-state actors has been acknowledged but not assessed. In this dissertation, I argue that non-state actors can impact international processes to the extent that they are able to leverage other …
This research focuses on how we should define the energy that empowers rebellion and generates appealing frames and imposes change, and whether one can claim some correlation between this bottom-up shift and weak leadership, institutional fatigue, public discontent, or social ma…