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2025, Proceedings of International Conference on Making Sense of Converging Media

The aim of this research is to explore what kinds of insights information visualization of social media data can provide for coorganizing conferences. Our paper focuses on Twitter in 'duringconference' use. We present a case study based on CMAD2013 conference and on the tweet traffic during the conference day. We applied the process of data-driven visual network analysis for providing insights on Twitter use during CMAD2013 conference day. By analyzing the network of conference participants and the conference's discussion topics, we were able to identify e.g. influential conference delegates, most interesting presentations and discussions, similarities between interests of the conference participants, and several development and information needs of conference co-organization derived from the information visualizations, which have implications for the planning and coorganizing of conferences, as well as for Twitter use in communicating during conferences.

2025, 2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

The aim of this research is to explore what kinds of insights information visualization of social media data can provide for co-organizing conferences. Our paper focuses on Twitter use before, during and after conference. We present a case study based on an conference of Community Manager Appreciation Day (CMAD 2013). With the process of data-driven visual network analysis, we used Twitter data to analyse the network of conference participants and the conference's discussion topics. We were able to identify e.g. influential conference participants, most interesting presentations and discussions, similarities between interests of the conference participants. Hence, several development and information needs of conference co-organization were derived from the information visualizations, which have implications for improving the planning and co-organizing of conferences, as well as for Twitter use in conference communication.

2025, Computers in Human Behavior

Knowledge management has acknowledged organizational learning as a key factor for creating competitive advantage for companies already from early 1990. However, the studies of colearning in this connection are in their infancy. This article contributes to an emerging field of 'smart data' research on Twitter by presenting a case study of how community managers in Finland used this social media platform to construct a co-learning environment around an annually organized conference. In this empirical study we explore the co-learning behavior in project contexts especially by analyzing and visualizing co-learning behavior from conference participants Twitter data.

2025, Annals of Social Sciences & Management Studies

AI ethics frameworks—grounded in principles of transparency, fairness, and accountability—have become the dominant mechanism for governing algorithmic systems. However, by treating AI as a neutral technology amenable to technical fixes, they obscure its status as a political project embedded in power, inequality, and historical injustice. In this paper, we introduce the concept of algorithmic contestation—the use of collective, tactical interventions to challenge and reshape the socio-political forces that drive the design and deployment of AI. Drawing on Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, we derive ten “Rules for Radical AI” that activists and researchers can deploy, including “Reveal the Code,” “Organize a Data Strike,” and “Seize Policy Windows.” We first map mainstream ethics principles onto Alinsky’s tactical logic, then illustrate these dynamics through two case studies—the San Francisco facial recognition ban and a New York City gig worker data strike. Finally, we discuss methodological limits, ethical risks, and future research avenues and issue a manifesto: proper AI accountability arises not from compliance alone but from collective contestation of algorithmic power.

2025, Renters Rising; Popular Democracy

In this interview series, we speak with renters and organizers around the world about their experiences with social housing, and their organizing against the corporate control of housing. We pay special attention to impacts on immigrants... more

2025, Make the Road New Jersey; Popular Democracy in Action

"Fair Rents, Stable Communities: How Strong Rent Stabilization Can Help Passaic Thrive" provides compelling evidence that Passaic, NJ’s recently enacted rent stabilization law, while a historic step, does not go far enough to protect... more

2025, New Menorah

Includes words and musical scores for "Days of the Mashiach," "Contra God," and "New World Coming."

2025, Social Work

Explores basic differences between personal and organizational battles. (1 p.) By Moshe ben Asher (né Michael Silver)

2025

This article presents Saul Alinsky's theory and practice of community organizing as a model for current participatory democracy. Alinsky shows how the community organizer can function as an interventional political actor in the U.S. to address issues surrounding disaffected voters, declining trust in government, and a widening gap between citizens and governments. Alinsky and his successors at the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) have a realistic approach to enhance civic engagement and influence the policy-making process at the city level through rigid top-down structures and strong leadership of organizers. In the present study, I discuss the ambiguities of civic engagement and the ways community organizers act to strike a balance between spontaneous participation and mobilization.

2025, Organizing

Proposes foundational sources from the Hebrew Bible for faith-based community organizing, the role of reflection on and discussion of the Scripture, the understanding of actualizing God's power, and integrating faith with the practical... more

2025, The High School Journal

This ethnographically-informed study observed a youth research team in collaboration with district leaders and university researchers to inform their school district's school improvement plans. When creating school change initiatives and educational policies in the United States, community members, including youth, rarely give input (Lac & Mansfield, 2018), even though students are highly knowledgeable about school experiences and are most affected by those initiatives and policies. With an epistemology of culturally responsive leadership and youth participatory action research (YPAR), this school district's Assessment, Research, and Evaluation department initiated a 9-week summer program for high schoolers to research and advocate for their schools and communities. In our study, we focus on the roles and strategies of adults (sometimes big sisters or "aunties") who honored the lived experiences of youth researchers and mentored them throughout a data gathering and analysis process to impact school change. We use Ella Baker's approach to organizing to better understand how group-centered leadership and social justice networking were integral to this work.

2025, University of baltimore Road Archive

A 22 page essay summarizing how we stopped an 8-lane expressway link from being run through Baltimore's Leakin Park, and how, as a consequence, the expressway project through the city was stopped entirely.

2025, University of Baltimore Road Archive

Personal recollections of the successful struggle against the extension of I-70N Expressway through Leakin Park in Baltimore, and how blocking the road segment link through the park in effect stopped the extension of the road through the... more

2025, Social Forces

Experiences with public benefits can shape recipients' feelings (belonging) and enactment of citizenship (e.g., political, civic, or economic behaviors). However, we know less about how undocumented and lawful permanent resident (LPR) immigrants fit within this paradigm. This study, based on in-depth interviews with forty working-poor undocumented and LPR Latina immigrant mothers, reveals striking ways in which mothers described the meanings they attached to the benefits received and the social processes their experiences with benefit programs informed. Many mothers described an increased sense of self-efficacy as mothers and as immigrants, expanded notions of government responsiveness, and shifts in how they understood the citizenship (broadly conceived) of their children based on their experiences with benefits. This was even reported among mothers who used programs often seen as stigmatizing or who had challenges arise in petitioning for benefits. Moreover, mothers conveyed these meanings spurring legal, economic, and civic behavioral adaptations in their lives, deepening their engagement as citizens. They also described how the meanings derived from benefits use produced changes in their parenting practices, describing structuring their children's time and engagement with institutions, as well as fostering reasoning skills and attitudes meant to benefit their children's long-term integration. I term such practices concerted citizenship cultivation. For children with legal citizenship, concerted citizenship cultivation focused on developing comfort and entitlement within US institutions, socializing interactions with authority figures, and promoting expanded engagement in society. For children who lacked legal citizenship, concerted citizenship cultivation focused on developing positive identity and deepening engagement within protective institutions.

2025, U.S Civil rights Study

This research paper explores the historical evolution, organizational structure, and contemporary relevance of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), one of the most enduring and influential civil rights organizations in the United States. Founded in 1909 in response to racial violence and systemic injustice, the NAACP has played a pivotal role in major legal and policy victories such as Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The study examines how the organization has adapted to modern challenges-such as voter suppression, economic inequality, and environmental racism-while facing internal restructuring and external critiques about its relevance in today's digital and intersectional era of activism. The analysis underscores the NAACP's lasting impact and its continued importance in shaping racial justice, public policy, and civic engagement in the 21st century.

2025, Bristol University Press

From the introduction: Cities have long functioned as primary drivers for trade, investment and regional economic development, as well as sites where individuals emerge from their private spaces, connect with each other, form... more

2025, Urban Geography

Cities are places where individuals emerge from their private spaces, connect with each other, form solidarities, politicize themselves, and begin to think as a group with distinctive interconnected interests. The politicizing effects of cities, particularly around social justic organizing, is not uniform across space. Long Beach, CA, USA is an unexpected case, a city with a long history of conservative politics. As recent as 2007, the pro-growth coalition blocked challenges to its neoliberal strategy; by 2014 a social justice turnappeared possible. This study makes three claims. 1) Cities are part of broader urban spaces that can foster social networks within and across cities. 2) Interaction between regional progressive and city networks can facilitate mobilizations in cities without a history of progressive politics. 3) The effective leveraging of relationships and resources requires local leadership imbued with a thorough understanding of the city's history.

2025

This article tells the story of a placed-based initiative to develop well-being and wealth in the historically underserved Diamond Neighborhood in San Diego, and discusses the place-based philosophy of the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation and the foundation's motivation for place-based work. • Its theory of change is presented through examples, along with the entry points the foundation chose for engagement and how it developed community capacity to engage effectively in this change work. • The article also discusses plans to transition ownership to the Diamond Neighborhood community when the foundation sunsets in 2030.

2025

Canadian feminist histories have long been bound to the printed page, potentially eluding audiences online. This article investigates how feminist histories can be expanded beyond traditional paper-bound venues by adopting a form of scholarly production that we call the “networked model.” Drawing on digital humanities methods, we argue that this model enables greater alignment with feminist epistemologies and an improved capacity to reach new audiences.ResumeLes recits feministes canadiens ont longtemps ete confines a la page imprimee, eludant potentiellement les publics en ligne. Cet article etudie comment les recits feministes peuvent etre etendus au-dela des supports papier traditionnels en adoptant une forme de production que nous appelons le « modele en reseau ». En s’appuyant sur les methodes numeriques des sciences humaines, nous defendons l’idee que ce modele ameliore l’harmonisation avec les epistemologies feministes et la capacite a atteindre de nouveaux publics.

2025, Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education

Background/ContextParent involvement in education is widely recognized as important, yet it remains weak in many communities. One important reason for this weakness is that urban schools have grown increasingly isolated from the families and communities they serve. Many of the same neighborhoods with families who are disconnected from public schools, however, often contain strong community-based organizations (CBOs) with deep roots in the lives of families. Many CBOs are beginning to collaborate with public schools, and these collaborations might potentially offer effective strategies to engage families more broadly and deeply in schools.PurposeThis article presents a community-based relational approach to fostering parent engagement in schools. We investigated the efforts of CBOs to engage parents in schools in low-income urban communities. We argue that when CBOs are authentically rooted in community life, they can bring to schools a better understanding of the culture and assets ...

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Blain, Marie-Jeanne, Muzhgan Haydary, Aline Lechaume, Delphine Nakache, Tatiana Sanheza Morales et Mona Subayi (2025) La recherche en 2 pages. L’écosystème de services et ressources : secteurs juridiques et de défense des droits pour des personnes migrantes à statut précaire et sans statut au Québec. Clinique juridique des Solutions Justes de la Mission communautaire de Montréal, Institut de recherche sur les Migrations et la Société (Université Concordia) et Centre de recherche InterActions, Montréal, 28 mai 2025, 2 p.

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coautorat: Blain, Marie-Jeanne, Muzhgan Haydary, Aline Lechaume, Delphine Nakache, Tatiana Sanheza Morales, Mona Subayi et Delfin Martin Heredia
Ce projet de recherche, initié par la clinique Juridique des Solutions Justes de la Mission communautaire de Montréal, est porté par une équipe de recherche pluridisciplinaire et interuniversitaire. L’objectif principal est de documenter l’accès aux services et à l’accompagnement juridiques des personnes migrantes à statut précaire et sans statut au
Québec. L’étude se concentre sur les expériences vécues par les personnes migrantes et leurs parcours à travers
les systèmes juridiques en explorant à la fois les obstacles rencontrés et les facteurs facilitants. La recherche documente également les expériences des professionnel·le·s les soutenant à travers leurs parcours.
Par une démarche méthodologique qualitative, la recherche a permis de joindre 88 personnes à travers des entretiens individuels et des groupes de discussion : 39 personnes migrantes et 49 professionnel·le·s de la défense des droits et des services juridiques tels que des avocat·e·s, juristes, conseillers·ères, intervenant·e·s, travailleurs·euses sociaux·ales et gestionnaires. Ils résident ou travaillent dans différentes régions du Québec. Cette démarche a permis de recueillir des témoignages variés sur les défis rencontrés dans l’accès aux services juridiques et sur les stratégies mises en place pour surmonter ces obstacles.
Les trajectoires relèvent la complexité de la navigation dans cet environnement juridique et administratif en mettant en lumière les interactions entre les divers acteur·rice·s et les défis spécifiques auxquels ces personnes sont confrontées. Les résultats pointent vers l’identification de différentes pistes d’action visant à améliorer l’accès aux services juridiques pour les personnes migrantes à statut précaire ou sans statut. Ces pistes d’action promeuvent globalement :
l’accessibilité universelle, l’action intersectorielle ainsi que la formation et le soutien aux personnes et parties prenantes. Nous espérons que ces pistes et constats pourront alimenter des réflexions futures et soutenir les organisations concernées.

2025, Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council

While honors programs have made notable advancements in diversity and inclusion, the issue of educational equity remains unresolved. Tensions between providing special opportunities for high-achieving students and adhering to principles of social justice continue to shape the "neighborhood of honors:' This essay seeks to address educational unfairness through Rawls's "difference principle;' which asserts that inequalities are morally permissible only if they benefit the least advantaged in society. The author suggests that honors programs can adhere to this principle by focusing on service and support for marginalized groups within and beyond the campus community, providing opportunities for talented students from underserved backgrounds, and engendering a sense of social responsibility throughout curricula. In this way, honors can thoughtfully and purposefully meet the needs of its students while championing the principles of fairness, inclusivity, and equal rights for all.

2025

Climate change, driven primarily by human activities such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation, poses one of the greatest challenges of the present time. The solutions require a multifaceted approach, involving policy reforms, technological innovations, and individual actions. Research suggests humans can address climate change through international cooperation and relying on constructive leadership. This paper provides a detailed examination of how humans can deconstruct climate change drawing from extensive research on social movements. It expands on the key points offering a professional and thorough overview for readers seeking a deeper understanding. This paper explores the significance of social movements throughout history to shed light on the possibility of mobilising global people’s climate movement to address the challenge of climate change effectively with the help of people and by using the solution that people advocate. The aim is to objectively examine the history of the world in search of major social movements that resulted in unprecedented shifts in consciousness and habits leading to big, global change. The rationale for the paper is to shed light on a pathway that would unlock the puzzle of how to solve climate change effectively by discovering a paradigm-shifting breakthrough. Such tailored approach has been adopted to broaden and enrich knowledge on people’s motivated solutions to climate change underscoring the importance of addressing the top priority issue that the community finds significant. Consequently, this paper’s core research question is: To what extent have social movements been the key drivers of significant change throughout history, and how can a present global climate movement change the history thanks to organized problem-solving on a larger, global scale? Taking an objective consideration of the history of the world, including biblical history, it will be argued that major, global political shifts resulted from movements of billions of people usually following an enlightened leader who offered a significant change in perspective showing the way for the followers. Principled and character-based leaders were not only mobilizing the masses but also teaching humanity what real leadership is, administering supernatural way of life and helping to solve problems. Thus, the greatest leader was not necessarily the one who did the greatest things. The greatest leader was the one who got the people to do the greatest things collectively by often leading them out of the condition of despair and political oppression, offering a solution in a hopeless situation leading towards greater prosperity, self-realization, freedom or security. This paper argues that God prepared ordinary individuals chosen for spiritual leadership to act in ways that demonstrate universal care for the planet. People’s liberation usually coincided with leaders effectively providing care by shepherding their people just like God’s Son, Jesus. God protected the brave leaders just like shepherds protected their sheep. God used kings of kingdoms, priests in temples and prophets to nations in order to lead His people towards His promise of a greater hope. Hope refers to hoping when things are hopeless, but it is a matter of platitude when everything is calm and bright. It is only when everything gets dark that hope begins to be a strength. In this context, hope is not blind faith that things will somehow get better. It is rather a realistic belief that things can get better, since despair is an illusion of certainty, while hope is an appreciation of possibility. As the Evangelist, Luke (1: 37) reminded, ‘‘For with God, nothing will be impossible.’’ The results of this paper point out that effective change-makers and global leaders embraced hope to turn things around. That means literally transforming a desperate situation into a possibility of a positive outcome. Change requires finding the way, showing the way and leading the way. A quote by the ancient Chinese philosopher, Lao Tzu aligns with this notion: “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.’’ The quote emphasizes the importance of humility, performing duties with diligence without asking for recognition. There is no way towards a brighter future without a strong will, and there is no will without hope. Political agency is the key to tackling global problems such as climate change, because when leaders organize communities, they also organize villages, and then, equally, the whole cities, after that they organize nations, and finally, they organize the whole world around ‘the idea whose time has come.’ The nucleus of analysis is the idea whose time has come is building a disaster-free world and tackling climate change in advance through the implementation of green, nature-based solutions to confront climate change and create a future where everyone can thrive. It is argued that it is individuals who play a central role in transformations for change. Since the biblical times of Moses, social movement leadership has been successful and proved to be effective in dethroning reckless tyrants, putting dictators who oppress humanity out of their seats and scattering the proud, mighty and cruel leaders who used to run the world. While there have been exceptions throughout history, leadership has too often been the sad tale of governments using citizens or subjects to serve and enrich themselves, instead of the other way around to serve people and improve life quality. However, there were some of the greatest leaders in the Bible, who were individuals that others would have totally discounted, both on the basis of their past and upbringing, and their training. Jesus, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Joshua, David, Samuel, Isaiah, Daniel, John the Baptist, Peter and Paul were chosen for leadership and became great leaders because their hearts were humble and completely devoted to God. As much as we can learn from their examples, we can equally infer lessons from modern examples, which include: Mahatma Gandhi, who aimed to create sustainable development, balanced development of body, mind and soul; Reverend Martin Luther King, who defined power as ‘‘the ability to achieve purpose’’ and ‘‘the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.’’ Movements which show how to organize communities can mobilize people’s power to effect major change. But there is also a deeper meaning to that because ultimately someone has to carry the shining torch of reason and progress to the furthest corners of the earth. Movement is one thing, another is that a movement has to be effective and realistic enough so that to translate vision into action without crystalising utopias. For every major breakthrough for every world-changing innovation—there is a hidden force at the center that enables to propel imagination, and then turn it into action. First, find a challenge, develop a vision, then design a strategy, and finally, overcome the challenge through social change. Immanuel Kant in philosophy, for instance, and Goethe in literature coined a new sense of production, dialogue and discourse which is best exemplified in Kant’s concept of the Einbildungs-kraf, the power to turn imagination into a reality. This is how a small movement can beat a beast through imagination and doing with little. Such power is productive not because it conjures up a grand vision detached from reality, but because it is capable of conceiving the formal characteristic of a vision of civilization before any empirical conception is possible and then turning it into action. According to Kant, the morphological description of natural phenomena was an integral part of the productive activity of nature – it is nature acting in the scientist and researcher. For Goethe, the artist is productive because nature is working in him. Nature has power and knowledge is power since it listens to nature. Creative problem-solving involves continuous experimentation, revision and sharpening of ideas. The longer options are kept open, the more likely it is that the solution will be original. At the present, the key priority for global civilization is the alleviation of climatic catastrophes and climate security. Very little research has been carried out till this date on the potential social impacts of climate change on the United Kingdom coast. Therefore, the social justice implications of climate change are not well understood. This paper defines climate justice as: ensuring that collectively and individually, people have the ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from climate change impacts – and the policies to mitigate or adapt to them – by considering existing vulnerabilities, resources and capabilities. Climate injustice relates to how the impacts of climate change will be felt differently by different groups and how some people and places will be more vulnerable than others to these impacts. What if people dared to transform the civilisation in which they live following the persuasive, still realistic vision of the regenerative communities model? In the face of global, systemic, and cataclysmic civilisational collapse, solutions offered by the people at the very least need to build from a smaller gradually to bigger networks, systemic thereby global by effectively rescuing an ageing, technetronic and therefore endangered, vulnerable civilisation. While research on social movements is wide there is a gap to fill about the degree to which climate movement may have a leverage in today’s global politics. It would be a drawback for the global progress if the now increasingly vulnerable humanity would only act on climate after it was too late. Strategic insecurity is now a fact of life on a scale heretofore not experienced by the now increasingly vulnerable humanity but breakthrough on climate change is foresee...

2025, U.S. Social Security System

The U.S. faces a growing homelessness crisis, with 771,480 individuals unhoused in 2024, up 18% from 2023, and a 3% regional rise in areas like Maricopa County. Systemic factors-housing unaffordability, wage stagnation, and limited social services-drive this increase, while public sentiment, often voiced on platforms like X, perceives international humanitarian aid ($71.9 billion in 2023) as competing with domestic needs. This paper proposes a comprehensive social welfare framework to address homelessness through Housing First, affordable housing expansion, income supports, and wraparound services, while reconciling domestic and international priorities. By leveraging domestic budgets (e.g., HUD's $69.9 billion) and countering misconceptions about foreign aid's 1.2% budget share, the U.S. can address both crises without sacrifice. Policy recommendations emphasize localized solutions, cost-effectiveness, and public engagement.

2025

A 45-story tower in Caracas formerly occupied by some 5,000 squatters, Torre David was touted by international media accounts as the world’s most spectacular The High-Rise and the Shack 2 “vertical slum.” This, among other sensationalized accounts, failed to consider the paradoxical ways in which Caracas’ formal and informal, urban and architectural trajectories literally collided with each other in Torre David. The modern high-rise and the self-built shack—antagonist spatial typologies in Caracas’ growth—were dramatically superposed in the tower, unleashing hitherto un(fore)seen dynamics. Through site fieldwork, interviews, film production, media analysis, and historical research, we offer a nuanced theorization of Torre David that grapples with its charged tensions between the formal and informal, modern and traditional, modernity and postmodernity, reality and imagination, and capitalism and socialism. We begin our investigation with a historical account of the tower’s constructi...

2025, Sustainability

Since the emerging of its idea circa four decades ago, Appropriate Technology (AT) had been proven as a comprehensive solution in a limited condition. However, practitioners & academia have different opinions with engineers on how an AT must be designed. Researchers had noted the crucial factors in the issue as such, and they gave a notion of the urgency for a dedicated design methodology for AT. This study, therefore, aims to provide it. Such methodology is developed by incorporating AT characteristics, fundamental issues in community empowerment, and the principles of existing design methodologies. The methodology emphasizes combination between bottom-up and top-down design approaches. It means that an AT must be started purely from local conditions rather than given technical specifications, and be given back to local people to be seamlessly integrated into their routines. It also underlines the crucial importance of community involvement throughout design stages. By looking at previous design methodologies that were developed based on pure Engineering Problem Solving (EPS), this study delivers a fresh and comprehensive one that covers surrounding issues and concepts to produce an AT based on the real meaning of technological appropriateness.

2025, Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics

Recognizing Arabic offline handwritten words still faces various challenges because of the diversity of writing styles and the overlap between the words and characters. Therefore, building an effective system to solve these challenges has always been difficult, which has led to a lack of published research in this field. This study introduces two new models to recognize handwritten Arabic words based on the Faster region-convolution neural network (Faster R-CNN). These models employ two pre-trained networks during the feature extraction phase: The visual geometry group-16 (VGG-16) network and the residual network (ResNet50) network. To help with overlapping detections and make localization more accurate, a soft nonmaximum suppression (Soft-NMS) strategy is used in post-processing. Models are independently trained and tested on two groups of data from the Institut Für Nachrichtentechnik/Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis (IFN/ENIT) dataset. The first group includes one word in each image, while the second contains multiple words. Test results showed that the proposed models give excellent results compared to others. The results of VGG16 and ResNet50 with the first dataset reached accuracy rates of 100% and 99.5%, respectively. Meanwhile, the accuracy of the second group reached 91.4% and 100% with VGG16 and ResNet50, respectively.

2025, proceeding IICS 2024

This research discusses how local champions in the concept of livelihood act as bridge actors in organizing stakeholders. To elaborate on this, Palembapang Village became the subject of the research. The background for choosing this location is that local champions use weak ties to social networks to contact other stakeholders (in this case HMJ Sosiologi FISIP Unila) through social media. Thus, in this study, the analytical knife used is Granovetter's theoretical argument, namely the strength of weak ties in social networks. This academic argumentation describes how organizing patterns are formed through the role of local champions. The research method used is qualitative with an explanatory case study approach. The process of selecting informants is based on specific criteria and is part of this organizational relationship pattern. This series of research activities found that weak ties allow the community to receive new information and innovate their work patterns. Meanwhile, strong ties limit the development and organization of stakeholders in rural communities. This is because the more robust the relationship in the social network, the tendency is to maintain the network to remain stable. This does not happen in weak networks, so it is more flexible.

2025

L’emploi se transforme. Auparavant relativement stable, il devient de plus en plus precaire, flexible, temporaire. Dans cette vaste transformation, les entreprises autant que l’Etat -modifient leurs modes d’operation et leur role. Competitivite et productivite sont autant de mots-cles faisant partie du vocabulaire des dirigeants politiques et economiques. Mais a quelles conditions et a quels couts pour les travailleurs ? Helas, l’emploi ne permet souvent plus de garantir un niveau de revenu suffisant pour ne pas etre pauvre. La croissance de ce « travail qui rend pauvre » engendre une reflexion sur les formes possibles de mobilisation pour la defense des interets et la protection des categories sociales les plus vulnerables. Les membres des equipes bresilienne et quebecoise du Groupe interdisciplinaire de recherche sur l’emploi, la pauvrete et la protection sociale de l’Universite de Montreal se consacrent a cette tâche. Dans le present ouvrage, ils tentent de saisir la problematiqu...

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2025, Social Sciences

Youth participatory action research (YPAR) is a critical approach that engages youth as collaborative partners in research. It acknowledges the unique expertise that youth have on the adversities and assets that are present in their familiar systems, such as schools and the community. These projects are often designed to identify and address community problems; however, our projects with local youth aimed to shed light on a pre-existing community asset, Salud y Cariño, an after-school community organization, and a particular moment in time, namely the pandemic shelter-in-place. The mission and epistemologies of the organization set forth by the co-founder and Executive Director informed our partnership and guided our approach to this work. Utilizing qualitative methodologies, the authors (a faculty member, two graduate students, co-founder and director of a local non-profit, and a high school senior) collaboratively designed and implemented an interview-style documentary and photovo...

2025, Take the City: Voices of Radical Municipalism

We accept the premise that we live in an era of unprecedented and rapid environmental and social change. The recent 10,000-year history of climatic stability on Earth that enabled the rise of agriculture and domestication, the growth of cities, numerous technological revolutions, and the emergence of modernity is now over. We accept that in the latest phase of this era, modernity is unmaking the stability that enabled its emergence. Over the 21st century, severe and numerous weather disasters, scarcity of key resources, major changes in environments, enormous rates of extinction, and other forces that threaten life are set to increase. But we are deeply worried that current responses to these challenges are focused on market-driven solutions and thus have the potential to further endanger our collective commons."-Katherine Gibson, Deborah Bird Rose and Ruth Fincher, "Preface," Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene 2

2025, Quartier en lutte: Récits féministes et libertaires

2025, Subverting Politics: Autonomous social movements today

George Katsiaficas identifies two recent episodes of the international eros effect: the alterglobalization wave and anti-war protests at the end of the 1990s and early 2000s, and the Arab Spring and Occupy Movements of 2011 and beyond. 1 The eros effect, following Katsiaficas, "is crystalized in the sudden and synchronous international emergence of hundreds of thousands of people who occupy public space and call for a completely different political reality," based on "their common belief in new values," oftentimes in several places, at the same time (2011: 1). My work with the Research Group on Collective Autonomy (CRAC) demonstrated that that "collective unconscious" also erupted in the urban centers of Quebec (Sarrasin et al. 2016), manifesting in the anti-MAI, anti-FTAA, and anti-war revolts at the turn of the century (Dupuis-Déri 2008). In 2012, in the wake of Occupy (Ancelovici 2016), the city was the siege of massive student revolt (Ancelovici & Dupuis-Déri 2014). A general strike disrupted everyday life in most universities, colleges, and even some high schools. Daily (and nightly) snake marches, blockades of the port, and attacks on symbols of capitalist greed made headlines for months on end. While not as widespread or historically anchored as in Europe, these moments of revolt share certain characteristics with the autonomous movements documented by Katsiaficas (2006).

2025, Handbook of Diverse Economies

2025, De la Jeunesse aux Amériques. Politisations, altérités, cultures (XXe - XXIe siècles). Romain ROBINET, David NIGET, Yohann LE MOIGNE et Andrea CABEZAS VARGAS (dir.), Presses Universitaires de Rennes

Parce qu'ils rendent visibles, parfois de façon spectaculaire, les failles des sociétés modernes et leurs conséquences sur des populations urbaines, jeunes et marginalisées, les gangs de rue fascinent autant qu'ils répugnent. Depuis quelques décennies, la globalisation a permis la diffusion de produits culturels dépeignant ces groupes de façon particulièrement caricaturale et sensationnaliste. De ce fait, les gangs « occupent une position clé dans l'imaginaire mondial de la violence » et sont souvent représentés comme « une incarnation du mal, d'une sauvagerie incontrôlable, [et] d'une barbarie brutale et insensée ». Dans aucun autre pays que les Etats-Unis les gangs n'ont autant fait l'objet de ce type de traitement. Beaucoup de choses y ont été dites et écrites, en particulier à propos de l'existence de supposées super-organisations décrites comme des multinationales du crime, à l'image de la Mara Salvatrucha (plus connue sous le nom de MS-13), un gang créé dans les rues de Los Angeles dans les années 1980 et essentiellement composé d'adolescents et de jeunes adultes d'origine salvadorienne. Souvent considéré comme « le gang le plus dangereux du monde », ses membres ont également été qualifiés d'« animaux » par Donald Trump lors d'une conférence de presse à la Maison-Blanche consacrée à la lutte contre l'immigration irrégulière en mai 2018. La « guerre contre la criminalité », et en particulier contre la drogue, lancée par l'administration Reagan dans les années 1980 a favorisé le développement d'une approche sensationnaliste et criminalisante des gangs et de leurs activités qui demeure encore aujourd'hui bien ancrée dans l'imaginaire collectif étatsunien. Ainsi déshumanisés, et présentés par les médias, de nombreux responsables politiques, la police mais également un grand nombre de chercheurs en sciences sociales comme des barbares nihilistes représentant un danger pour la société, les membres de gangs ont traditionnellement été dépeints comme dépourvus d'agentivité et de conscience politique. Pourtant, l'histoire récente des Etats-Unis regorge d'exemples permettant de questionner ces assertions et d'identifier un potentiel de politisation chez les membres de gang. C'est ce que je me propose de faire dans cet article.

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This project aims to present the first historical overview of community organizations and groups formed by migrant domestic workers in Lebanon from 1980 to 2022. Moreover, it analyzes the challenges and opportunities faced by these groups in order to help us understand the current situation and contribute to a stronger labor movement for migrant domestic workers’ rights.

2025, Journal of Urban Health-bulletin of The New York Academy of Medicine

Community schools link students, families, and communities to educate children and strengthen neighborhoods. They have become a popular model for education in many US cities in part because they build on community assets and address multiple determinants of educational disadvantage. Since community schools seek to have an impact on populations, not just the children enrolled, they provide an opportunity to improve community health. Community schools influence the health and education of neighborhood residents though three pathways: building trust, establishing norms, and linking people to networks and services. Through such services as schoolbased health centers, nutrition education, family mental health counseling, violence prevention, and sexuality education, these schools build on the multiple reciprocal relationships between health and education. By developing closer ties between community schools and neighborhood health programs, public health professionals can help to mobilize a powerful new resource for reducing the health and educational inequalities that now characterize US cities. We suggest an agenda for research, practice, and policy that can build the evidence needed to guide such a strategy.

2025

What are the effects of profiling a minority group? I propose that being profiled lowers an individual's opinions of police as well as harms the police-community relationship. I analyze the results of a snowball sample consisting of qualitative interviews of six young African American males who think they have been racially profiled. The interviews were conducted in 2003 and 2004. A look at the process of racial profiling is included, and several explanations for law enforcement behavior emerged out of the interviews, including ideas of black criminality, acceptance, disrespect, and the presence of window tint. Furthermore, several significant effects emerged including a lowering of opinion on law enforcement, the detailing of a tension between citizens and police, and an analysis of respondent views on the quality of policing. The respondent beliefs about the importance of race and image symbols as well as neighborhood context as determinants of police attention also emerged. The results illustrate that there are several significant drawbacks to the practice of racially profiling young African American men.

2025, 141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 2 - November 6, 2013)

Background: Community-based coalitions could be mechanisms to foster individual and systems change in their communities in order to reduce the burden of obesity. Coalitions can increase the likelihood of reducing obesity by selecting and implementing effective interventions. Members of community-based coalitions are challenged to consider the multiple and interacting determinants of obesity and to select effective interventions from hundreds of untested recommendations. This investigation identified best practices in collective decision-making processes used to select obesity interventions. These practices may be adopted by other community coalitions working to redu ce or prevent obesity in their communities . Methods: Three exemplar community-based obesity coalitions were investigated using a multiple case study design . Data from twenty-six coalition member interviews were analyzed using methods based in Grounded Theory in order to v identify practices in decision-making processes related to intervention selection . Documentation was reviewed to verify coalition activity during this planning stage . Findings: Nine shared practices related to decision-making processes were found among the three exemplar coalitions: setting a vision and objectives that target determinants of obesity and emphasize comprehensive solutions focusing on the community environment; defining an organizational structure that maximizes collaboration and shared decision-making; leaders taking a strong role in guiding and simplifying the process ; obtaining financial resources that support the objectives ; gathering information from the community; communicating information with the community and coalition members ; align ing community-based information with objectives ; making final selections by consensus ; and dispersing objectives to other community organizations to build support and momentum . Research translation: A teaching case study was developed that documents and analyzes the practices and processes that exemplar community coalitions engage in while working to select a comprehensive intervention to prevent and reduce obesity. Conclusions: Successful community-based obesity coal itions formulate a clear vision with strategic objectives , develop organizational structure and processes , utilize information gathered from both subject matter experts (individuals and agencies) and community members , and consider local community needs, VI assets , and interests in order to prioritize and select obesity interventions for their communities .

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This qualitative study uncovers the voices of five Latin@ 1 students who are high-"achieving" and undocumented and have strong aspirations in science, in a Southern, Title I high school. Through critical race methodology and these students' testimonios/counter-stories, these students' struggles and successes reveal their crossing of cultural and political borderlands and negotiating structures of schooling and science. The students dream of someday pursuing a trajectory in the field of science despite racial, ethnic, and political barriers due to their undocumented status. I use three key theoretical approaches-Borderlands/Anzaldúan theory , Loving Playfulness/World Traveling (Lugones, 2003), and Latino Critical Race Theory (in which many Latin@/Chican@ studies contribute)-to put a human face on the complex political and educational situations which the students in this study traverse. Data were collected during a full school year with follow-up contact into the present, with over 133 hours immersed in the field, involving 22 individual student interviews, six student focus group interviews, 14 teacher interviews, field notes from over 79 contact hours with participants in formal and informal science education settings, and document review. This study reveals high-"achieving" students flourishing in formal school science and informal science settings, starting a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and 1 This study uses the term Latin@, as is the preferred term among Latin@ Critical Race (LatCrit) Scholars , instead of "Latino" or "Latino/a" to de-emphasize the androcentric or cisgendered "o/a" fragmented terminology regarding individuals of Latin-American heritage, and move towards more inclusive language which incorporates the full diversity and unity of gender among our rich and diverse communities. brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Math) club and the first community garden in a Title I high school in their state, to benefit their immigrant-rich community. Each student professes agentic desire to follow a science trajectory but testifies to their struggle with racism, nativism, and state policies of restricted college access. Students persevere in spite of the additional obstacles they face, to "prove" their "worth" and rise above deficit narratives in the public discourse regarding students of their ethnicity and undocumented status, and hold onto hope for legislation such as Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) or the DREAM (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) Act. These students' lived realities, identifying as undocumented and DREAM Act eligible, also known as "DREAMers," show that more work must be done, beyond the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) permits some have received, before these students' dreams can be realized. The students' testimonios call for a space in the U.S. where their talents and dreams in science are welcome and can thrive. These students speak to the injustice inherent in shutting out talented youth with potential contributions to make to science due to an immigrant status that was never their choice. Given the dearth of highly skilled and committed contributors to the field of science in the U.S., especially scarce in Latin@ representation, these students' prospects are vital in an increasingly globalized scientific world. This study makes this case as a deliberate appeal to interest convergence, while also attending to issues of social justice and problematizing the culture of school power that these students must navigate and assimilate into to "prove" themselves. This study adds to the science education research by providing insights into the lives of students who are Latin@ and undocumented, a considerable population in many science classes yet rarely discussed in science education literature, and elucidating how they negotiate science and science education framed by the larger structures they must face. Implications of this study suggest new ways of understanding this population in nondeficit ways that advocate changing the public dialogue and taking educational and political steps towards social change in solidarity with this group of students.

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ABSTRACTIn this article we describe the process of implementing a community-based research project that linked student learning with documenting elements of local histories surrounding the civil rights movement in Mississippi and Tennessee. We show that developing a dialogue among community members, ourselves, and our students worked to democratize the research project, produce strong support among the community members, and contribute to an improved understanding of racial inequality for our students. We rely on our accounts of the process, student journals, and oral histories compiled during the research. Our findings show that there are considerable opportunities for community-based research around documenting and sharing key memories and that these can be realized even when the priorities between researchers and community members do not align. Our historically-oriented fieldwork, research, and findings serve to link service-learning to community-based research.INTRODUCTIONIn thi...

2025, Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence

This paper argues that community land trusts (CLTs) can be part of a liberal housing policy from both an economic and a legal point of view. In this, I depart from the defense of community land trusts based on the so-called 'decommodification' of housing. First, from an economic point of view, CLTs are a comparatively better option than other traditional policies, such as rent control, once the political complexity of housing policies is considered. Second, fostering autonomy and the capacity for self-authorship requires that individuals be able to choose from a diverse set of valuable institutional designs; CLTs correspond to that ideal and bring a unique nuance to the existing options within common-interest communities. Additionally, I look at the somewhat recent legal innovations that brought CLTs to Canada and continental Europe to show that the institutional flexibility of CLTs allows them to support different visions of self-realization through ownership.

2025, Ethnic Studies Pedagogies Journal

Community-university collaborations premised on ethnic studies pedagogies are challenging—but increasingly urgent—exercises. This manuscript examines a grant-funded project grounded in racial justice at a particularly fraught time in history marked by a global pandemic and repressive Texas politics. With a state legislature re-entrenching white-supremacist and Christian-nationalist ideologies through policies that attack ethnic studies curriculum, race-based epistemologies and histories, and labor protections, Texas proves to be a hostile place for community-based work and activist-scholarship. This article centers three projects—a labor panel, an anti-Mexican violence symposium, and a community school—carried out between 2022 and 2023 in San Antonio, Texas to illustrate how ethnic studies pedagogies can be used to resist epistemic racism and state-sanctioned violence. We contextualize this discussion by describing how multiple draconian measures passed by the Texas legislative sessions contribute to the current harmful socio-political climate. Through an ethnic studies-informed approach, we conceptualize Pedagogy of the People as transformative racial justice initiatives rooted in community, place, and history, to counter epistemic violence.

2025, BMC Trials

Background Hypertension plays a significant role in the global burden of cardiovascular diseases. The planned approach to community health (PATCH), as a community-based framework, highlights community participation in decision-making. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of a community-based intervention using the PATCH on disease perception, empowerment, self-care behaviors, and blood pressure in patients with hypertension. Methods This study will be a parallel randomized community trial. Twelve comprehensive rural health service centers (CRHSCs) are randomly selected as clusters. A total sample size of 428 individuals (214 in the intervention group and 214 in the control group) with hypertension covered by CRHSCs will be selected through cluster random sampling.