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"Cyberactivism already has a rich history, but over the past decade the participatory web--with its de-centralized information/media sharing, portability, storage capacity, and user-generated content--has reshaped political and social change. Cyberactivism on the Participatory Web examines the impact of these new technologies on political organizing and protest across the political spectrum, from the Arab Spring to artists to far-right groups. Linking new information and communication technologies to possibilities for solidarity and action--as well as surveillance and control--in a context of global capital flow, war, and environmental crisis, the contributors to this volume provide nuanced analyses of the dramatic transformations in media, citizenship, and social movements taking place today. "--

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives implemented by large coffee corporations and determine whether their practices could be applied to Oaxaca, Mexico's coffee growing region to improve that region's coffee sector. While Oaxaca has the topographic propensity to grow quality coffee, its success as a reputable coffee growing region has been stagnated. This project indicated that Oaxaca is not prospering in high quality or niche coffee markets due to interrelated issues of inefficiency in the sector, high levels of poverty in coffee growing regions, lack of business training and agronomy education, and inconsistent aid from both state and federal governments. To make up for the region's shortcomings, it is recommended that Oaxaca look to CSR, which in part has been applied through nonprofit organizations' certification schemes such as Fair Trade USA, Rainforest Alliance or UTZ CERTIFIED. This study recommends that Oaxacan farmers first look to systems that focus on farmer training and improving the quality and consistency of their coffee beans. It is then recommended that farmers seek out niche markets and certification schemes that reward farmers with price premiums. By distinguishing their coffee from the conventional coffee market, farmers may "de-commodify" their coffee, making it more valuable and less susceptible to the volatile coffee commodity market. The study also concludes that there is a need for a reform in the sector's auditing practices, and that civil society is a vital component for stimulating increased sales of ethically sourced coffee

Foreword to the First Edition /Adeline Gordon Levine --1.Toxic Exposure: The Plague of Our Time --The Plague as a Metaphor for Toxic Exposure --Contaminated Communities --Contamination as a Widespread Event --Defining a Contaminated Community --The Stages of Toxic Disaster --Collateral Damage in the Risk Society --The Theory of Environmental Turbulence --2.Legler: The Story of a Contaminated Community --A Methodological Note --Groundwater Contamination in Legler --Period of Incubation --Discovery and Announcement --Disruption of Lifestyle: Water Delivery --The Hookup of City Water --Lingering Concerns --Afterword About the Landfill's Afterlife --3.Lifescape Change: Cognitive Adjustment to Toxic Exposure --Defending Our Prior Assumptions --Perceiving a Changed Status --Perceptions of Health --Inherent Uncertainty --Confirmed Exposures --Environment --Loss of Personal Control --The Inversion of Home --Loss of Social Trust --Conclusion: The Lifescape Impacts of Toxic Exposure --4.Individual and Family Impacts --Coping with Exposure: Individuals --Outcomes: Positive and Negative --Coping with Exposure: Couples --Coping with Exposure: Children --Case Studies of Family Dynamics --Stigmatized Relationships: Outsiders Just Don't Understand --Neighbors: Proximate Support --Summary: Individual and Family Impacts --5.Disabling Citizens: The Governmental Response to Toxic Exposure --A Dialectic of Double Binds --Communicational Distortion in the Institutional Context --Distortion and the Communication of Bad News --Differing Paradigms of Risk Between Citizens and Regulators --Institutional Contexts --6.The Enabling Response: Community Development and Toxic Exposure --Enablement Through Community Development --Keys to Enablement: Leadership and Activism --Key Benefits of Community Development --The Consensus/Dissensus Continuum --Consensus and Dissensus in Legler --Consensus and Dissensus Elsewhere --Toxic Victims: A New Social Movement? --Sustainability as a Metaenvironmental Justice Issue --Conclusion: A Radical Environmental Populism --7.The Societal Meaning of Pollution --Denial and the Culture of Contamination --Rejecting a Contaminating Culture: Local Environmental Resistance --Changing the Culture of Contamination --Cultural Immunity: Last Defense of the Contaminating Culture --Sustainability as the Third Stage of Modernity.

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The construction of migrant population across India–Bangladesh borders is premised on cultural affiliation, religious sentiments and the contingent political economy. With a history of partition in different phases, the subjective conceptions of identity of migrants are layered and complex. The article unravels how identities of migrants are shaped in everyday life through the frame of legality–illegality, religious–political and economic–social aspects. Drawing on previous research and empirical engagement, the article engages with the questions on citizenship, residency, identity, belonging, exclusion and inclusion. The field work in the borderland district of North 24 Parganas provides rich description about the life and circumstances of migrants at the threshold of security and insecurity, belonging and unbelonging around layers of caste and communal tangle. The article presents a grounded understanding on the politics of documenting and phenomenon of maintaining undocumentedness. To explain the social construction of identity, the article explores the role of Hindu nationalist ideas that influences the negotiation of migrant populations around religious lines; either accepted, ignored, patronized or kept insecure, susceptible to fear and exclusion.

Defence date: 14 June 2016 ; Examining Board: Professor Pepper D. Culpepper, European University Institute (Supervisor); Professor Sven H. Steinmo, European University Institute (Co-Supervisor); Professor Ben W. Ansell, University of Oxford; Professor Marius R. Busemeyer, University of Konstanz. ; Awarded the Linz-Rokkan Thesis Prize in Political Sociology at the European University Institute conferring ceremony on 9 June 2017 ; In this thesis, I ask about the political determinants of educational inequalities, and posit that as school quality differs, the competition for school places poses a problem to the social right of equal educational opportunities at the compulsory education level. What are the policy options to equalise access to quality education? When are these reformed? These questions motivated the design of a typology of Student Sorting Institutions with which we can meaningfully compare formal institutional arrangements that interfere in the competition for quality school places. A critical review of sociology of stratification and economics of education literature suggests classifying Student Sorting Institutions along two dimensions: whether they grant school choice to parents, and whether the allocation process permits academic selection. Building on recent insights of the field of political economy of education, the thesis explains institutional reform with an interest-based approach. Policymakers encounter a trilemma between high choice, low selection and enhancing school quality in disadvantaged neighbourhoods: the high choice/low selection option of regulating school choice particularly benefits students that want to opt out of disadvantaged neighbourhood schools, hence risking increasing segregation of such schools. The winners of each institutional arrangement vary according to income and education. How the trilemma is solved depends on parties in government who cater to their electorates' interests. These then change with educational expansion. The high political cost and uncertain benefit structure of such institutions favour the status quo. With the use of new insights in the methodology of process tracing, I show that the theory empirically accounts for variation of reform trajectories in France, Sweden, and the UK (England for school policy) from the 1980s to the 2000s. In contrast, I argue that my findings shed doubt on the explanatory role of neoliberal ideas and path-dependent feedback effects to account for these reform trajectories.

Populația din Republica Moldova a adoptat tendințe înregistrate în țările europene privind conduita și atitudinile matrimoniale: amânarea înregistrării oficiale a căsătoriei spre o vârstă mai matură, răspândirea coabitării premaritale și a celibatului definitiv. Totodată, populația are o atitudine favorabilă față de căsătorie iar nevoia de a crea o familie pare să fie dominantă pentru contextul sociocultural al Republicii Moldova. Articolul evidențiază transformările care se produc în comportamentul marital al populației Republicii Moldova și se bazează pe datele studiului Generații și Gen (GGS), realizat în 2020 de UNFPA Moldova. Rezultatele analizei atât a datelor empirice cât și a statisticii oficiale reflectă aceleași schimbări apărute în evoluția fenomenelor de nupțialitate și divorțialitate. Analiza aspectelor ce țin de prezența partenerului/ei, căsătoria, vârsta medie la căsătorie, numărul mediu de parteneriate și implicarea în coabitare denotă o serie de particularități diferențiate pentru bărbați și femei în funcție de vârstă. Coabitarea, ca tendință conjugală în Republica Moldova, se practică din ce în ce mai mult, cel mai adesea transformându-se în căsătorie. Comportamentul nupțial este departe de etapa în care între conviețuire şi căsătorie nu există o distincție. În urma studiului se constată că stabilitatea relațiilor conjugale este influențată de o serie de factori socio-demografici și economici: prezența copiilor, durata relației, mediul de reședință ș.a. Cuvinte-cheie: familie; căsătorie; coabitare; parteneriat; divorț; separare; Studiul Generații și Gen. ●●●●● The population of the Republic of Moldova has adopted some trends recorded in European countries regarding matrimonial behavior and attitudes: postponing the official registration of marriage to a more mature age, the spread of premarital cohabitation, and celibacy for good. At the same time, the population has a favorable attitude towards marriage, and the need to create a family seems to be dominant in the socio-cultural context of the Republic of Moldova. The article highlights the transformations occurring in the marital behavior of the population of the Republic of Moldova and is based on the data of the Generations and Gender (GGS) study, carried out in 2020 by UNFPA Moldova. The results of the analysis of both empirical data and official statistics reflect the same changes in the evolution of marriage and divorce phenomena. The research on the aspects related to the partner's presence, marriage, the average age at marriage, the average number of partnerships, and involvement in cohabitation shows a series of different characteristics for men and women depending on age. Cohabitation, as a marital trend in the Republic of Moldova, is practiced more and more, most often turning into marriage. Nuptial behavior is far from the stage where there is no distinction between cohabitation and marriage. The study found that the stability of marital relationships is influenced by a series of socio[1]demographic and economic factors: the presence of children, the duration of the relationship, the environment of residence, etc. Keywords: family; marriage; cohabitation; partnership; divorce; separation; Generations and Gender study.

The second edition of Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society includes updates on the initiatives laid out in the first edition and sets new goals for the next five years. It also includes new information on the Grand Challenge to Eliminate Racism, expanding the social work pipeline, commentaries from leading social work organizations, and how interdisciplinary science can best provide a platform to tackle society's most urgent problems.

Mit dem Hochschulranking nach Gleichstellungsaspekten 2021 liegt die zehnte Ausgabe dieses etablierten und langjährigen Instruments zur Qualitätssicherung für Gleichstellung an Hochschulen vor. Das Ranking beruht auf einem mehrdimensionalen Indikatorenmodell und berücksichtigt über das Kaskadenmodell die Fächerprofile der Hochschulen. Verwendet wurden Daten der amtlichen Hochschulstatistik für das Jahr 2019. Zusätzlich zu dem Hochschulranking beinhaltet die Veröffentlichung ein Ranking der Bundesländer, das auf ähnlichen Indikatoren beruht. Die Veröffentlichung wendet sich an alle, die in Hochschulen und Politik an der Qualität und dem Innovationspotenzial unserer Hochschulen interessiert sind.

Mit dem Hochschulranking nach Gleichstellungsaspekten 2019 liegt die neunte Ausgabe dieses etablierten und langjährigen Instruments zur Qualitätssicherung für Gleichstellung an Hochschulen vor. Das Ranking beruht auf einem mehrdimensionalen Indikatorenmodell und berücksichtigt über das Kaskadenmodell die Fächerprofile der Hochschulen. Verwendet wurden Daten der amtlichen Hochschulstatistik für das Jahr 2017. Zusätzlich zu dem Hochschulranking beinhaltet die Veröffentlichung ein Ranking der Bundesländer, das auf ähnlichen Indikatoren beruht. Die Veröffentlichung wendet sich an alle, die in Hochschulen und Politik an der Qualität und dem Innovationspotenzial unserer Hochschulen interessiert sind.

Grassroots memorials have become major areas of focus during times of trauma, danger, and social unrest. These improvised memorial assemblages continue to display new and more dynamic ways of representing collective and individual identities and in doing so reveal the steps that shape the national memories of those who struggle to come to terms with traumatic loss. This volume focuses on the hybrid quality of these temporary memorials as both monuments of mourning and as focal points for protest and expression of discontent. The broad range of case studies in this volume include anti-mafia shrines, Theo van Gogh's memorial, September 11th memorials, March 11th shrines in Madrid, and Carlo Giuliani memorials in Genoa.