Youth and Evaluation: Empowered Social-Change Agents

This study uses participant observation to examine how an all–female collective in Los Angeles uses urban cycling culture as a way to contest inequalities and advocate for social change in communities of color. Bridging the literatures on gentrification and social movements, I examine how the collective uses the bicycle as a unifying tool to draw disparate individuals together and, through the group's practices and rituals, generates a shared sense of collective identity and politicized consciousness embedded within the uneven spatial development of Los Angeles. I demonstrate how this politicized consciousness drives a collective spirit of resistance that challenges gentrification by reimagining and re–embodying space through organized actions and everyday practices. I find that organized anti–gentrification resistance is not merely reactionary, but rather entails pre–figurative action and visioning for space and community. Overall, findings speak more broadly to how communities of color facing exclusion and marginalization make claims to space and community.

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Views: Active Drug Users as Social Change Agents A Straw for the Pilgrim: Beyond Specialization

Substance Use & Misuse ◽

10.3109/10826084.2012.644174 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 47 (5) ◽

pp. 588-590

Author(s):

Allaman Allamani

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Drug Users ◽

Active Drug ◽

Change Agents

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The Green Revolution: Social Change through Social Media

International Journal of Social Sciences and Management ◽

10.3126/ijssm.v3i3.14813 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 146-152

Author(s):

Veena Tripathi ◽

Dhriti Bhattacharjee

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Social Change ◽

Social Networking Sites ◽

Corporate Sustainability ◽

Green Revolution ◽

Change Agents ◽

Decisive Role ◽

Parent Organization ◽

The Impact ◽

The Way

The advent of the internet changed the way we communicate forever. It became such a potent force that it was recommended as a nominee for Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year.” The world became euphoric about how this technology was changing the way we think. The changes were being brought about by people and that they were the change agents. It is required to understand the key concepts behind the emergence of social change through social media and their support in creating sustainability. This paper will report a study of five Indian social campaigns, right from their birth to the phase where they were no longer within the control of their parent organization but became a movement in their own rights. It is an exploratory study aimed at understanding the way social media works and how private organizations can also bring about a public change. The study will cover social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and organizational blogs. The variables will be drawn from the corporate sustainability reports, social media venues, working papers and other research studies. These factors and variables can be correlated to sustainability through which the objective to analyse the impact of social change through social media can be achieved. With sustainability becoming a mandate for big companies in India, this study will help in understanding how social media can play a decisive role in their sustainability policies. Int. J. Soc. Sc. Manage. Vol. 3, Issue-3: 146-152

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Teachers as agents of social change

International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning ◽

10.18546/ijdegl.07.3.05 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 63-77 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Douglas Bourn

Keyword(s):

Social Change ◽

Change Agents ◽

Global Learning ◽

Pedagogical Approach ◽

Role Of Teachers ◽

The Uk

Teachers are seen as key actors of change within programmes and projects on global learning. But all too often they are regarded in an instrumental way or as promoters of some form of ideal global teacher. Evidence from the UK and elsewhere suggests that if a pedagogical approach is taken to the role of teachers within the process of learning, then three distinct locations of teachers as change agents can be identified. These are as change agents within the classroom, within the wider school, and within society as a whole.

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