In this paper, we explore the relationship between creative practice, activism, and urban place-making by considering the role they play in the construction of meaning in urban spaces. Through an analysis of two activist groups based in Stokes Croft, Bristol (UK), we argue that cultural activism provides new political prospects within the wider context of global capitalism through the cultivati...

This article develops a classificatory framework for analyzing advocacy group strategy in S&T policy domains — an area of increasing citizen activism since the 1960s. In such domains, activists may be locked out by what I call the ‘expertise barrier’, which blocks those lacking specialized knowledge from full participation. This article argues that activists’ strategies to break through the exp...

We compare hedge fund activism and hostile tender offers in a unified framework where any investor who acquires an equity stake to improve firm value faces a dual free-rider problem: Neither do dispersed shareholders sell their shares unless the price fully reflects the anticipated value improvement nor do those who retain their shares participate in the costs. We show that activism and tender ...

During the past years, activist movements have increasingly turned to social media raise awareness and critically discuss current development future scenarios. As a contribution discussion of new activism in digital age, this study aims explore how environmental risks crisis are visually communicated campaigns on Instagram, through case Extinction Rebellion Sweden (XRsv). The is delimited first...

Design for sustainability is of much interest in Persuasive Technology (PT) and interventions are often targeted to change individual’s behaviour. These interventions aim to change lifestyles to be more ecologically sustainable, however the social and economic circumstances individuals live in often counteract these intentions. Activism has been proposed as a way to address such social circumst...

We describe a number of pitfalls that may occur with the push to rapidly expand access to antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa. These include undesirable opportunity costs, the fragmentation of health systems, worsening health care inequities, and poor and unsustained treatment outcomes. On the other hand, AIDS "treatment activism" provides an opportunity to catalyze comprehensive healt...

‘‘Probably no other disease in human history has been associated with social and political activism to the extent that the HIV epidemic has,’’ says the AIDS Activism Web site [1]. Such activism played a huge role in reducing the costs of antiretroviral drugs in developing countries [2]. Five years ago, one of us (GY) argued that similar activism was needed to raise awareness of shortfalls in gl...

This paper aims to explore how under authoritarian regimes, undergoing reform processes, divergent forms of environmental activism may emerge. Two severe cases degradation serve as our starting points: the marine disaster in central coast Vietnam 2016 and Mekong Delta's ongoing degradation. While former offers a case rural grievances over mass fish death Central triggering protests on national ...