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Toward an Activist Political Theory

Political activism and women’s modernism

Within one tradition of Western thought, politics and the arts have been categorized as distinct and separate entities. So when aesthetics is under discussion, political concern is often dismissed as dogmatic, ephemeral, or partial, and when politics is of chief interest, aesthetics is swept aside as immaterial, insubstantial, or obscure. The way literature has been defined and categorized in t...

The Internet and Political Activism in Britain

This study focuses on the capacity of the Internet for strengthening political activism. The first part summarizes debates about these issues in the previous literature. This study starts from the premise that political activism is a multidimensional phenomenon and that we need to understand how different channels of participation relate to the social and political characteristics of the online...

Political activism : New challenges , new opportunities

Research on political activism compares the ways that citizens participate, the processes that lead them to do so, and the consequences of these acts. The standard paradigm was established in earlier decades by the seminal works in the social psychological tradition: Gabriel A. Almond and Sidney Verba’s The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations (1963), Sidney Verba an...

#Activism Tracking Twitter’s Impact on Campaigns for Political Change

INTRODUCTION Since the turn of the century, the global community has experienced a constant wave of popular uprisings and public protests. The " Arab Spring " triggered a chain reaction that spread not just to the Eastern world, but also to many stable Western democracies, including the indig-nados (indignant citizens) movement of Spain, the Portuguese Geração a Rasca (desperate generation), an...