While the North American women's movement is most known for its efforts to transform social relations between women and men, its adherents have also focused on remaking relations among women. Using an innovative data source, social movement memoir, this paper indicates the depth of disappointment feminists cause one another. Memoirists dispute notions found in the movement and mainstream that w...

muslim students were one of the active subjects during the movement of imam khomeini and advance its goals. positions and hence the course of political and intellectual developments in the islamic institutions as the main artery of the student movement in those years, can be enlightening part of the islamic revolution is on. due to the ability of laclau and muffe discourse in explaining social ...

A crucial element of struggle for any social movement is the ability to convey its message to both movement participants and the broader public. Movements frequently deal with problems of reframing and reinterpretation of their messages by mainstream media by trying to build relationships with mainstream media actors. But this is not the only way that movements can gain positive media coverage....

Network analysis is on the rise across scientific disciplines because of its ability to reveal complex, and often emergent, patterns and dynamics. Nonetheless, a growing concern in network analysis is the use of limited data for constructing networks. This concern is strikingly relevant to ecology and conservation biology, where network analysis is used to infer connectivity across landscapes. ...

It is vitally important for humans to detect living creatures in the environment and to analyze their behavior to facilitate action understanding and high-level social inference. The current study employed naturalistic point-light animations to examine the ability of human observers to spontaneously identify and discriminate socially interactive behaviors between two human agents. Specifically,...

Pedestrian areas are a type of urban public space, nowadays because of the serious consequencesof car-dependency and ignoring pedestrian needs, a consensus on the importance of walking and the necessity forplanning for pedestrians movement has been formed among urban designers, planners and people. The concernsabout human health and movement in city create a new trend in contemporary urbanism, ...

This paper uses concepts from complexity theory to metaphorically frame an exploratory analysis of emergence within a social movement. In particular un-order, self-organisation and global local linkages are used to conceptually frame the social forum. The Sydney Social Forum (SSF) represents one of many emergent, self-organising units within the global social forum movement. Preliminary results...

This thesis examines the role of the indigenous movement in Ecuador on the ongoing process of democratization in that country. My study demonstrates that a comprehensive social movement such as Ecuador’s indigenous movement has great potential for having a positive impact on democracy. However, these movements are not without their shortcomings which are clearly demonstrated by some of the acti...

Two debates currently mark West German discussions of social history. The first centers around the contention of an "end of the labor movement." The second focuses on the "New History Movement" with its related efforts to describe the everyday life of the past (Alltagsgeschichte) and to rewrite history "from the bottom up ." Certainly the Social Democrative party (SPD), the trade union movement...

occupy wall street was a flag which went to the hands of the american protestors. this flag reflected the simulation of occupy wall street to the occupation of palestine and the main reference of the protest was aimed at zionism. the deep roots of this occupation dates back to the occupation of the american natives’ territories and in fact the same american monopoly in the path of american hist...