Constituency and Leadership in the Evolution of Resistance Organizations

Author(s):  
Hahrie Han ◽  
Michelle Oyakawa

This chapter examines the way old and new movement organizations addressed strategic dilemmas regarding constituency and leadership in the Trump Era. This chapter examines two case organizations to illustrate how long-standing and new organizations grappled with two particular challenges: (1) How would they define their constituencies, and what is the extent to which they will put questions of race at the center (or not)? And (2) Will they invest resources in leadership development, and how will that investment be balanced with strategies to mobilize “at scale”? The cases are ISAIAH, a long-standing faith-based community organization in Minnesota, and Indivisible, a new national organization that emerged after the 2016 election. This chapter thus illuminates the way two organizations reacted to changing political conditions in the Trump Era and the key strategic dilemmas that emerged.

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 114-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Douek

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the role that faith and spirituality play for Jewish people as they age and examine how this is expressed and supported by a health and social care environment. Design/methodology/approach – This is a case study based on work at Jewish Care and supported by other Jewish networks. It also builds on qualitative research on Ageing Well carried out in 2012. Findings – As people age they have a need to connect with their community. Faith-based communities are ready made and often the first point of call for Jewish people. The way in which people express their faith or spirituality may not manifest itself in practice but be more about inclusion and connection. Life circumstances will determine people’s faith, identity and approach to spirituality – e.g. Holocaust survivors. There is a feeling that religious affiliation and the way it is expressed has polarised in the community which means that older people often do not connect with current ways of expressing or connecting to their faith. Research limitations/implications – This is not a systematic research but examines through practice different approaches to supporting people as they age via a faith-based provision. Practical implications – The approach could be replicated by other faith-based providers but also the approach and lessons should be considered by more generalist providers so that they ensure they meet the needs of the individual receiving their services. The inclusion principle reminds the author that care in a vacuum will not support the emotional and psychological needs of people. Social implications – Divisions within a faith group opportunities for younger people to learn from their older peers reminder of more established values around faith. Originality/value – Identifying the way in which faith is often an expression and connection to community and can reduce social isolation. The role that faith-based communities play in connecting and valuing people as they age. The reminder that ritual can be not only reassuring to people as they age but provide structure and purpose to a person’s life.


Author(s):  
Gary C. Jacobson

The American electorate has grown increasingly divided along party lines in recent decades, by political attitudes, social values, basic demography, and even beliefs about reality. Deepening partisan divisions have inspired high levels of party-line voting and low levels of ticket splitting, resulting in thoroughly nationalized, president- and party-centered federal elections. Because of the way the electoral system aggregates votes, however, historically high levels of electoral coherence have delivered incoherent, divided government and policy stalemate. The 2016 nomination campaigns have exposed deep fissures within as well as between the parties, and their results threaten to shake up electoral patterns that have prevailed so far during this century, with uncertain and perhaps unpredictable consequences for national politics. The 2016 election is certain to polarize the electorate, but the axis of polarization may not fall so neatly along party lines as it has in recent years.


2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-165
Author(s):  
Vivian Solana

Abstract This article discusses the hypervisibility of the Sahrawi munaḍila (female militant) within dominant representations of a Sahrawi revolutionary nationalism. Drawing connections between nation-state building processes, the production of space, and gendered subjectivities, it destabilizes assumptions of institutions as devoid of political movement and shows how the spaces of the National Organization of Sahrawi Women allow women to inhabit the position of loyal critic toward their movement's dominant model of female empowerment. These positions reveal transformations to the way in which space is inhabited intragenerationally, and they reflect the regeneration of a Sahrawi female militancy under the conditions of a protracted struggle for decolonization.


2008 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janis Fine ◽  
Vivian Hopp Gordon ◽  
Marla Susman Israel

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-27
Author(s):  
Ryszard F. Sadowski

Declared by the United Nations as the International Year of the Forest, 2011 demonstrated the signi#cance of forest ecosystems to all humans and the entire Earth. Religions had already become important allies in preventing damage to forests. Different religious traditions offer various proposals for forest conservation and afforestation. Since 1970 and especially after the jubilee year of 2000, people of faith established many ecological organizations to engage in environmental conservation because of their religious beliefs. All major religious traditions have a lot to offer. This article examines the way organized religions and faith-based ecological organizations are engaged in many environmental projects concerning forest ecosystems. It looks at the ecological activity of faith-based organizations such as the Chipko Movement, Appiko movement, Swadhyaya community, and the Ecological Movement of St. Francis of Assisi. The article shows that the actualization of religious potential in protecting forests is accomplished through active prevention of deforestation and climate change, afforestation, and the implementation of environmentally friendly technology.  


Author(s):  
Mario T. García

This chapter concerns the establishment of a community organization in East Los Angeles aimed at empowering Mexican Americans. This was the United Neighborhoods Organization or UNO. Fr. Olivares from his parish in the barrio welcomed it and quickly became one of its key leaders. This chapter discusses the nature of UNO and its philosophy and strategies of organizing as a faith-based organization.


Author(s):  
William Chester Jordan

This chapter focuses on the village of Wissant in France, which was, until the mid-fourteenth century, a critical link in maintaining regular contact between England and the continent. It was an emporium, with ties to cloth towns such as Ypres. It was also a staging point for troops needing naval transport. The village, because of its importance, was home to an English agent and his staff who represented and tried to protect their countrymen's interests there. English abjurers who arrived in Wissant were in an already-weakened state of health from the character of their travel to Dover, bareheaded, barefooted, and unsheltered along the way. For those who were delayed by weather or local political conditions in boarding ship and thus had to bear the additional burden, of incarceration in Dover and the ritual of entering the sea before embarking, the situation was even worse.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Melissa Aronczyk ◽  
Maria I. Espinoza

The key argument in this book is that American environmentalism emerged alongside the tools, techniques, and expertise of American public relations (PR) and that neither environmentalism nor PR would look the way it does today without the other. We consider PR as a technology of legitimacy. This refers not only to securing legitimacy for one viewpoint over another. It is also about how PR has created a set of social and political conditions in which certain ways of thinking become available to us while others are foreclosed on. PR is a process that provides conceptual repertoires, repertoires that have influenced how we define public information and communication around environmental change


Author(s):  
Ming-sho Ho ◽  
Thung-hong Lin

This article examines the genesis of Taiwan’s 2014 Sunflower Movement and how it contributed to the decisive defeat of the Kuomintang (KMT) in the 2016 election. The KMT’s accommodating approach to Beijing since 2008 had deescalated cross-strait military tensions and facilitated closer economic ties. However, the so-called “peace dividend” was not evenly distributed but remained a privilege of the minority who enjoyed political connection. The Sunflower Movement’s support came from believers in democratic values and sovereignty, as well as those who expected future joblessness. The widespread perception of threatened democracy and economic victimization constituted the root causes of the Sunflower Movement, paving the way for the historical victory of the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in 2016.


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