This thesis explores the impact of activism on activists, how the experience of activism fosters a politicisation process, and how this process continues throughout an activistâs political life. During the winter of 2010 and the years following the reform of UK higher education many students went through the process of becoming social movement ac...
This article explores the state of contemporary Tharu indigenous activism in western Tarai. It reviews the historical evolution of Tharu activism since the mid-twentieth century and up to the Tikapur incident in 2015 and provides ethnographic analyses of contemporary activities aimed at reinvigorating Tharu cultural practices. The article discusses...
Published in Journal of homosexuality
Despite the challenges faced by sexual orientation minority (SOM) individuals, many SOM individuals are able to persist and develop resiliency over the course of their lives. The present study explored how prominent SOM elders perceived the LGBTQ+ community as developing hope and resiliency in relation to major events of lesbian, gay, bisexual, tra...
Access to medicines is a critical ongoing challenge to advancing goals of health equity. Recent changes in the political economic and technoscientific domains of pharmaceuticals beg a reexamination of shifting processes in this space, especially emergent forms of collective action to address structural conditions for making new and old drugs. In pa...
This article investigates the characteristics and elements that make up the collective action frame of a group of sexual diversity organizations in the city of Santa Fe. With this objective, the perspective of the framing process is recovered to analyze the Documents written by the sexual activism of Santa Fe for the Prides of the city correspondin...
The research aims to analyze the practices of youth and adult education of social movements related to land in Brazil, the MST (Movement of Landless Rural Workers) and in Colombia, the CNA (Coordinador Nacional Agrario), based on the thematization of multiple historical, social, political and cultural determinations present in the Latin American co...
À partir de trois enquêtes ethnographiques menées dans le Briançonnais, le Calaisis et les Alpes maritimes, l’article analyse les difficultés, les opportunités et les ambivalences de la mobilisation du répertoire juridique dans l’aide aux personnes étrangères illégalisées aux frontières françaises. Il souhaite ainsi contribuer à deux champs distinc...
In August 1986, social movements and other organizations from the National Campaign for Land Reform created the National Tribunal of Latifundium Crimes (NTLC), giving to the organization Apoio Jurídico Popular the task of holding the people's tribunal. The people’s tribunals are trial experiences not linked to state jurisdiction and dedicated to cr...
This project examines the significance of art produced by and within sex working/trading communities, focusing on art from in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and New York City. By examining the visual and performative art, artist practices, art shows, and festivals that fund, curate, and celebrate sex worker art, this dissertation explores how...
Coalitions are important mobilization tools that can help build powerful movements and help achieve political outcomes. However, coalition formation is not equally feasible within all social movements. Indeed, existing studies show that intergroup antagonisms stemming from identity-based differences, power asymmetries, and legitimacy concerns imped...
