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Found 4 from your keywords: subject="activist"
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Grassroots innovation movements
Smith, AdrianFressoli, Mariano

Innovation is increasingly invoked by policy elites and business leaders as vital for tackling global challenges like sustainable development. Often overlooked, however, is the fact that networks of community groups, activists, and researchers have been innovating grassroots solutions for social justice and environmental sustainability for decades. Unencumbered by disciplinary boundaries, polic…

Edition
10
ISBN/ISSN
9781317451198
Collation
xiii, 240 p
Series Title
Pathways to Sustainability
Call Number
303.484 SMI g
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Contentious minds : how talk and ties sustain activism
Passy, FlorenceMonsch, Gian-Andrea

Why does the mind matter for joint action? Contentious Minds is a comparative study of how cognitive and relational processes allow activists to sustain their commitment. With survey data and narratives of activists engaged in three commitment communities, the minds of activists involved in contentious politics are compared with those devoted to institutional and volunteering action. The bookâ€â€¦

Edition
-
ISBN/ISSN
9780190078010
Collation
xii, 366 p. : ill.
Series Title
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Call Number
303.484 PAS c
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Bearing Witness : ruth harrison and british farm animal welfare (1920 - 2000)
Kirchhelle, Claas

This open access book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrison’s bestseller Animal Machines triggered a gear change in modern animal protection by popularising the term ‘factory farming’ alongside a new way of thinking about animal welfare. Here, historian Claas Kirc…

Edition
-
ISBN/ISSN
9783030627928
Collation
xxvi. 271p. : ill.
Series Title
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Call Number
179.3092
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A political biography of Aung San Suu Kyi: a hybrid politician
Lubina, Michal

This book is the first political biography of Aung San Suu Kyi covering both her years in opposition and all her years in power from 2016 onwards. It offers a new interpretation of Aung San Suu Kyi by presenting a balanced and thorough account of Suu Kyi’s policies. In the last 30 years there has not been a person in global politics who has risen so high and fallen so low – and so quickly â…

Edition
-
ISBN/ISSN
9781000178111
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Series Title
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Call Number
959.105092