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... a reflection on Peru’s expanding frontiers of extraction, the techno-political and economic regimes that make it possible, and the potential of grassroots movements in reshaping national politics. mining expansion expert knowledge grassroots movements corporate science Conga ...

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... border, this chapter explores the mechanisms by which networks of protection for Indigenous women and girls can be built simultaneously at grassroots and global levels. Ultimately, these networks strengthen both international and transnational solidarity movements and advocacy and provide community-level...

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..., accountability, and demands of movements over the last few decades and advocates a grassroots model that seeks to build participation, democracy, and power for trans resistance. Nonprofitization social movements non-profit Industrial Complex lesbian and gay rights LGBT ...

... it became a focal point for many of the social, political, and cultural movements that emerged. It was also to serve as the hub of a grassroots arts movement that spread throughout the African American community, in many ways exemplifying ideas about the role of art and artists in the community that had...

... antineoliberal feminist organizations was rooted in the “shadow commodity chain.” This series of segmented transnational relationships—which linked Northern states, nongovernmental donors, Latin American NGOs, and grassroots social movements—conveyed calculative discourses along with much-needed funds. Unlike...

... a Canadian company inaugurated an open-pit gold mine in the indigenous province of San Marcos. In response, when local residents held a consulta , or referendum, in which 98 percent rejected the mine, the province became the epicenter of what is now a national movement to make (mainly) indigenous people...

... Grassroots activism was a critical part of the context that influenced Huey Newton and Bobby Seale and the men and women who would join the BPP. This chapter focuses on local working-class activism in the black community and the relationships and networks among activists. Organizations like...

... and transnational solidarity movements and advocacy and provide community-level resources to defend the rights of Indigenous women and girls. Mexico United States human rights grassroots solidarity movements This chapter profiles the A´i Cofán People, whose traditional territories straddle...

...Movements, Regimes, and Refoundations This chapter examines how grassroots community leaders in Porto Alegre, Brazil, made sense of two civic participation initiatives linked to their city’s status as a “leftist utopia”—the World Social Forum and the Participatory Budget—during the final...

..., as some critics have suggested. Participation has always had competing goals of legitimation of rule and empowerment. The question before movements and activists before these participatory institutions today is not so much whether to engage with them at all (as more dismissive analyses might imply...

... Party common sense Powell Memo grassroots activists think tanks media This case study chapter looks at Occupy Wall Street (OWS), another contemporary social movement but one emerging from the left rather than the right. It, too, seemed to erupt out of nowhere. And like the Tea Party...

... Oscar Olivera (1955–) was a representative of the trade-union federation of factory workers in Cochabamba when the outbreak of the Water War in 2000 catapulted him into the leadership of the grassroots Coalition for the Defense of Water and Life. In the cycle of insurgencies from 2000 to 2005...

... If the new millennium saw first the rise and consolidation of progressive governments throughout Latin America, it also saw the deactivation of large sectors of the social movements that had brought those governments into being. Out of this moment, came a series of new events that seem to place...

... that the surprising appearance in the 1990s of market-based practices among antineoliberal feminist organizations was rooted in the “shadow commodity chain.” This series of segmented transnational relationships—which linked Northern states, nongovernmental donors, Latin American NGOs, and grassroots social movements...

... political activists and teachers, who adapted their strategies and messages to postwar conditions and its hopeful possibilities. Grassroots rural mobilization culminated in the cascade of events surrounding the 1945 National Indian Congress and its prolonged and bitter aftermath. peasant movements...