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Prologue: Reflecting on the wave metaphor and the myth of monolithic feminism -- Rethinking the so-called first wave - an extremely brief history of women's rights activism in the U.S. Before -- Civil rights, labor feminism, and mother activism from 1920 through the 1940s -- Varieties of feminism in a conservative age -- Equality NOW! - Feminism and the law -- Women's movements for redistributive and social justice radical feminism from the grassroots -- Raising consciousness, venting anger, finding sisterhood : "the revolution is what is happening in every woman's mind" -- Lesbian lives, lesbian rights, lesbian feminism -- Anti-feminist backlash and feminism reborn : the 1970s through 2013 -- "We started a revolution" : a decade of uprisings from Occupy to OUR Walmart to #MeTooMcDonalds and Black Lives Matter, 2011-2021.

In Anti-Racist Scholar-Activism, Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Laura Connelly explore how anti-racist scholar-activists navigate the challenges and leverage the opportunities of the university in pursuit of social justice. Illuminating the complicated, often uncomfortable position of the scholar-activist, this book is a valuable resource for anti-racist struggle both inside and outside academia, writes Camila Andrade. This blogpost originally appeared on LSE Review of Books. If you … Continued

I've been thinking a lot lately about how society, and people in my profession (academics), think about activism. It seems to me that there is a widespread insufficient appreciation for the importance of activists in the world; often that attitude is even plainly dismissive. If this is true, then why is this the case, and […]

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate institutional shareholder activism in Nigeria. It addresses the paucity of empirical research on institutional shareholder activism in sub-Saharan Africa.


Design/methodology/approach
This study uses agency theory to understand the institutional shareholder approach to shareholder activism in Nigeria. The data are collected through qualitative interviews with expert representatives from financial institutions.


Findings
The findings indicate evidence of low-level shareholder activism in Nigeria. The study provides empirical insight into the reasons why institutional shareholders might adopt an active or passive approach to shareholder activism. The findings suggest the pension structure involving two types of pension institutions affects the ability to engage in shareholder activism.


Research limitations/implications
The research study advances our understanding of the status quo of institutional shareholder activism in an African context such as Nigeria.


Practical implications
The paper makes a practical contribution by highlighting that regulators need to consider how the financial market conditions and characteristics affect effective promotion of better governance practices and performance through shareholder activism.


Originality/value
This study draws attention to the implication for shareholder activism of complexities associated with an institutional arrangement where two types of financial institutions are expected to operate and manage the private pension funds in a country.

There has been an increase in the activities of environmental groups in recent years. Based on the review of forty-five recent scholarly articles on environmental activism, this article focuses on trends in the literature in terms of conceptualization, themes, and directions, as well as it suggests agendas for future research. The article notes climate justice as a key concern for the direction of scholarship on the subject, and covers the themes of the emergence of Green political parties, radical environmentalism, ecological citizenship, violence and non-violence, and social conflict.