Author(s): Ahmed Shaheed
In: Arches Quarterly, Vol 3, No 4, 2009, pp. 53-60
Then foreign minister addresses the question ‘how did a 100% Muslim country, acting in tandem with the international community, … peacefully turn centuries of autocratic rule into something resembling a functioning liberal democracy?’
Author(s): Ahmed Shaheed, and Jonathan Upton
Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy2008
Pre-2008 elections. Includes sections ‘Repression of Peaceful Opposition and New Media 1999-2002’ and on attempted reforms.
https://www.csidonline.org/9th_annual_conf/Shaheed_Upton_CSID_paper.pdf
Author(s): Ahron Bregman, and Jihan El-Tahri
Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1998, pp. 301
Published in conjunction with a BBC TV series. Chapters 27 and 28 (pp. 187-199) cover the first Intifada, the impact on Israel and the initiatives taken by the PLO.
Author(s): AV Buzgalin, and AI Kolganov
In: Critical Sociology, Vol 47, No 3, 2020, pp. 441-453
This article provides an analysis of the socio-economic background to the protests, the social and class composition of the protesters (and of those who did not take part) and the 'contradictions within the Belarusian "power elite". It was written whilst the protests were still taking place.
Author(s): AIDA
reports on issues and protests relating to dam projects, marine pollution, climate change and other environmental threats, and promotes legal strategies which activists can adopt.
Author(s): Aida Alami
In: New York Review of Books (NYR Daily, 2019
Bredoux is a journalist who has specialised in covering charges of sexual harassment and assault by prominent personalities since 2011, when she was shocked by the prevailing French media response to rape charges made in New York against Dominique Strauss Kahn, due to become head of the IMF. Bredoux also had to appear in court in February 2019 with six women who had accused the deputy speaker of the National Assembly of harassment, when he filed a defamation lawsuit against them. She assesses positively the impact of MeToo in France (despite evidence of opposition to it, including by women), arguing that 'the balance of power has changed' and that media coverage was more sympathetic to women making accusations.
Author(s): Aili Mari Tripp
James Currey, Fountain Publishers and the University of Wisconsin Press, Kampala and Wisconsin, 2000, pp. 336
Author(s): Aili Mari Tripp
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009, pp. 280
Focuses on Cameroon, Uganda and Mozambique within wider African context.
Author(s): Ailynn Torres-Santana
In: CubaNews, 2018
Sheds light on the role of social groups that have promoted the definition of the crime of gender-based homicide as “femicide” and reports on the legal framework that exists in Cuba on the matter.
https://oncubanews.com/en/cuba/society-cuba/gender-in-cuba/it-was-femicide-and-that-matters/
Author(s): Aim Sinpeng
In: Critical Asian Studies, Vol 53, No 2, 2021, pp. 192-205
The 2020 protests were the first major pro-democracy demonstrations in Thailand mediated on Twitter. This article examines how activists used hash tags in the early phase of the movement, and argues that they developed collective narratives and spread information, rather than using Twitter to organize protests. The focus within the #FreeYouth campaign was on criticism of the government and calls for democracy, creating a 'pro-democracy collective action framework'.
Author(s): Aisha Ali
2018
Account on how feminism has developed in the African continent, in connection also to African history and customs.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/african-women-african-feminists/
Author(s): Ajay Chibber
Institute for International Economic Policy2021, pp. 17
The author argues that Indian agricultural policy, devised in response to food shortages in the 1960s, relied on a mix of technological solutions to increase yields and a range of pricing measures to support farmers. These policies are out of date, but changing the overall policy is difficult as farmers believe their livelihoods are at stake. This paper considers the issues behind the protests and suggests ways forward.
Author(s): Ajay Chibber
Institute for International Economic Policy2021, pp. 17
The author argues that Indian agricultural policy, devised in response to food shortages in the 1960s, relied on a mix of technological solutions to increase yields and a range of pricing measures to support farmers. These policies are out of date, but changing the overall policy is difficult as farmers believe their livelihoods are at stake. This paper considers the issues behind the protests and suggests ways forward.
Author(s): Ajay Gandhi
In: Cultural Survival Quarterly, Vol 25, No 3 (Fall), 2001, pp. 4ff
Notes opposition by indigenous activists (at ‘People’s Summit’ in Quebec City April 2001) to Free Trade Agreement of the Americas debated at official government Summit of the Americas elsewhere in the city, and reports some of speeches.
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/ourpublications/csq/article/indigenous-resistance-new-colonialism
Author(s): Ajisaffe Dickson, Tinuade Adekunbi Ojo, and Margaret Monyani
International Conference of Information Communication Technologies enhanced Social Sciences and Humanities 20212021
The increasing impact of digitalization, especially in Africa, has transformed political, social, economic and business activity. There is therefore a need for rigorous academic debate about the effectiveness of social media platforms for citizen activism. This study focusses on the #EndSARS movement in Nigeria to explore strategies and mechanisms used to try to influence government. The authors conclude that the movement may inspire youth-led movements elsewhere, but also examine how the nature of the Nigerian state resulted in an abrupt end to the protests.
Author(s): Akshat Rathi
John Murray Press, London, 2020, pp. 265
This book, edited by a climate journalist, features accounts from young activists around the world. Individuals in very different social and environmental contexts, and with varying motives and goals, recount their contributions to reducing climate change.
Author(s): Al Gedicks
South End Press, Boston MA, 1993, pp. 270
Examines campaigns by the Ojibwa Indians against mining and over land tenure and the role of multinationals in Wisconsin.
Author(s): Al Gedicks
In: Bron Raymond Taylor, Ecological Resistance Movements: The Global Emergence of Radical and Popular Environmentalism (C.1.a. General and International Studies), pp. 89-108
Covers resistance by Cree and Inuit, supported by Kayapo Indians in Brazil and transnational green groups, to major hydro-electric project in Quebec.
Author(s): Al Giordano
In: New Left Review, Vol II, No 41 (September/October), 2006, pp. 5-27
Analysis of fraud and manipulation of elections to favour the ruling candidate Felipe Calderon and account of opposition’s response.