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Iran's Green Movement: A Foucauldian Account of Everyday Resistance, Political Contestation and Social Mobilization in the Post-Revolutionary Period
DownloadSpring 2018
In June 2009 there appeared on the streets of Tehran and other major Iranian cities something unprecedented in the thirty-year history of the Islamic Republic: immense crowds engaged in spontaneous forms of collective action directed against what was widely perceived to be election fraud. The...
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Learning in Social Action in Contexts of Mining Dispossession: A Critical Case Study of Roșia Montană, Romania
DownloadSpring 2021
Witiw, Taylor Kermit Christopher
Transnational corporations promise win-win development, but extractive projects often deliver dispossession, displacement, impoverishment, environmental degradation, and disrupt social relations in rural localities. These conditions can in turn engender contestation and resistance to...
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Spring 2021
This dissertation explores theoretical mechanisms underlying organizations’ disengagement from social movements. Building on insights from institutional theory and the social movement literature, I examine the decertification of Certified B Corporations (also known as B Corporations or B Corps)...
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Not Just Small Potatoes: Social Partnerships as Relational Spaces that Bridge Social Movements and Organizational Change
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Social movements are a key source of novel practices that challenge the status quo and provoke organizational and institutional change. Sweeping narratives of exogenous social movement influenced change (e.g. protests, demonstrations, media attacks) have been complemented, more recently, by...
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Spring 2016
Popular and scholarly accounts emphasize the absence of gender issues in women's framing of their participation during the 2011 Egyptian uprising. In this dissertation, I interrogate the collective action frame adopted by women at the time of the uprising to elucidate how gender featured in the...