Abstract Introduction The occupational praxis of activists with disabilities in the Latin America has presented actions revindication from historically marginalised territories. Objective To explore and describe strategies used by Chilean activist disabilities. Method Qualitative design via three research techniques: a) 11 in-depth interviews; b) six group chat sessions; c) content analysis eig...

In March of 1988, the faculty of the Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst unanimously demanded that the University remove one of its most distinguished members, Professor Julius Lester. The official reason given for this unprecedented request was that Lester had become an "anti-Negro-Negro." In making this extraordinary demand, Lester's colleagues were ...

This chapter reviews the research on environmental exemplars, or activists. General themes that have been identified in the literature include early experiences in nature, the influence of other people and organizations, opportunities for environmental education, environmental self and identity formation, and generativity. With these themes in hand, we construct a developmental model suggesting...

I found just the place for me...even though one doesn’t accomplish great things. But we know what we want. We chose this...We aren’t going to give in to power, staying home. It’s good for us to be out in the street, doing something, awakening the recognition of folks. It’s tied to the solidarity of others with you... It comes from my father and sharing a plate of food, and the neighbours...You ...

Classical data mining involves: waiting for data to appear and then mining it. Activist data mining involves: proposing experiments based on algorithmic and application-specific considerations, evaluating the results, proposing new experiments, evaluating, proposing, and so on. Thus Activist Data Mining is a fundamentally interventionist and iterative endeavour. It entails close collaboration w...