scholarly journals Agents of Change

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-92
Author(s):  
Kaja Borchgrevink
Keyword(s):  
Women Activists ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
Class A ◽  
Gender Complementarity ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Global Norms

Abstract This article examines the intersection of religion, gender and development through an analysis of religious practice and development engagement among women activists in two religio-political aid organizations in contemporary Pakistan. Situated on the margins of the mainstream aid and development field, these women are rarely conceded agents of development. Yet focusing on improving women’s position and wellbeing, their activities are similar to those of many other development NGO s. As part of religio-political movements advancing gender complementarity and segregation, women’s activism and conceptions of development reflect a particular intersection of religion, gender and class. A close read of women’s discourse and practice reveals how women interpret and appropriate Islamic teachings, local cultural practices, and global norms by balancing ideology and pragmatism. In the process of negotiating, upholding and resisting norms and practices, these activists can be seen as active agents of change in their local contexts.

From Ink to Web and Beyond

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather McKee Hurwitz
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Women Activists ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
Media Activism ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
History Of ◽  
Feminist Movements

Mainstream media ignores the breadth and diversity of women’s activism and often features sexist, racist, and sexualized portrayals of women. Also, women hold disproportionately fewer jobs in media industries than men. Despite these challenges, women activists protest gender inequality and advocate a variety of other goals using traditional and new social media. This chapter examines the history of women’s media activism in the United States from women activists’ use of mainstream and alternative newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, to how activists adopted Internet technologies and new digital media strategies starting in the 1990s, to how contemporary feminists protest with Facebook and hashtag activism today. I argue that women activists’ use of new social media may necessitate significant shifts in how we research continuity and diversity in women’s and feminist movements, and how we conceptualize resources, micromobilization, and leadership in social movements broadly. I conclude with several suggestions for future research.

scholarly journals Making Forecasts Meaningful: Explanations of Problematic Predictions in Northeast Brazil

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Pennesi
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Northeast Brazil ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Climate Forecasts ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
The World ◽  
Interactional Context ◽  
Decision Making Tool

Abstract This study illustrates the need to consider the multiple interpretations and experiences that influence how climate forecasts are evaluated in local contexts when assessing how useful forecasts can be for increasing the resilience of rural communities. Video clips of predictions made by scientific and traditional forecasters were shown in interviews and focus groups to elicit explanations for why the predictions are sometimes judged to be inaccurate, not useful, or inappropriately communicated by different sectors of the rural population in Ceará, Northeast Brazil. Results indicate that climate forecasts are not simply a decision-making tool that provides information in a one-way transfer from forecaster to user. The meanings and values of predictions are jointly created by both forecasters and their audiences. Predictions and the discussions that surround them are also an important part of expressing social identities and ideas about how the world works. Ineffective predictions are explained here in terms of religious beliefs, environmental change, forecaster identity, interactional context, and cultural practices.

scholarly journals The Dynamics of International Norms Diffusion: The Study of Women Activists in Bali

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 353
Author(s):  
I Made Anom Wiranata
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women Activists ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Advocacy Networks ◽  
Political Opportunities ◽  
Global Norms ◽  
The Government ◽  
Experiences Of Women

Artikel ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis pendekatan aktivis-aktivis perempuan di Bali dalam mendifusikan norma global kesetaraan gender. Aktivitas mereka berhadapan dengan adat budaya Bali yang patriarki. Dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif berjenis fenomenologi, penelitian menggambarkan pengalaman aktivis perempuan di Bali dalam ruang transnasionalisme. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa upaya untuk mendifusikan norma dari ranah global ke ranah domestik dan lokal, tidak terjadi secara linear. Ratifikasi Konvensi mengenai Penghapusan segala Bentuk Diskriminasi terhadap Perempuan oleh Pemerintah Indonesia pada tahun 1984, tidak berarti bahwa norma kesetaraan gender dapat menyebar dan terinternalisasi dalam masyarakat secara otomatis. Aktivis dalam gerakan perempuan memiliki peran yang penting dalam mempromosikan pentingnya hak-hak perempuan. Mereka melakukan adaptasi agar norma kesetaraan gender pada level global, mendapatkan penerimaan di segmen tertentu dari budaya Bali. Pilihan strategi dalam difusi norma oleh para aktivis perempuan di Bali adalah hasil interaksi antara identitas pemahaman mereka terhadap budaya lokal, interaksi dalam jaringan advokasi internasional serta penggunaan kesempatan politik baik yang berasal dari ranah internasional maupun domestik. Pengalaman berinteraksi langsung dengan aktivis gender di negara Barat menimbulkan gagasan kreatif untuk mengadopsi praktik perjuangan gender yang telah berhasil di luar negeri untuk diterapkan di level lokal.Kata-kata kunci: norma global, difusi, glokalisasi, gerakan gender, transnasionalismeThis article aims to analyze the approach of women activists in Bali in diffusing global norms of gender equality. Their activities deal with patriarchal Balinese cultural tradition. Using a qualitative method of phenomenology, the study describes the experiences of women activists in Bali in the space of transnationalism. This study finds that efforts to diffuse norms from the global to the domestic and local domains do not occur in a linear fashion. Ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women by the Government of Indonesia in 1984 does not mean that gender equality norms can spread and be internalized in society automatically. Activists in the women’s movement have an important role in promoting the importance of women’s rights. They make adaptations so that the norms of gender equality at the global level gain acceptance in certain segments of Balinese culture. The strategy choices in the diffusion of norms by women activists in Bali are the result of the interaction between their identity and understanding of local culture, interaction in international advocacy networks and the use of political opportunities both from the international and domestic spheres. The experiences of interacting directly with gender activists in Western countries give rise to creative ideas to adopt the practice of gender movement that has been successful abroad to be applied at the local level.Keywords: global norms, diffusion, glocalization, gender movement, transnationalism

Feminism, Activism, and Scholarship in Global Context

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy A. Naples ◽  
Nikki McGary
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Women Activists ◽  
Women's Movements ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Feminist Activism ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Nancy Fraser

The histories of women’s studies and feminist scholarship reveal the lack of distinction between feminist activism and feminist scholarship. The term “feminism” consists of multiple theories and agendas depending on regional, historical, and individual contexts. Broadly speaking, feminism includes theoretical and practical challenges to gender inequality and multiple forms of systemic oppression. However, the political projects that make women their objects are not always feminist; and political projects that address women’s issues are not always framed around the concept of feminism. Women activists and organizations do not always explicitly identify as feminist, although they might be participants in struggles aligned with broad feminist goals, including women’s empowerment, autonomy, human rights, and economic justice. A major theme that runs through feminist scholarship on women’s activism relates to the question of what difference women’s participation and feminist analyses make for progressive struggles. Feminist philosopher Nancy Fraser argues that there are “gender dimensions” to all struggles for social justice, and “feminists better be in these struggles and bring out those dimensions because certainly nobody else will.” Feminist scholars have also long debated what counts as a women’s movement. Revisioning women’s movements to include the diversity of women’s political analyses and strategies requires rethinking the labels used to categorize feminisms more generally.

Connecting U.S. Intervention with Social Injustice, 1970–1972

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica M. Frazier
Keyword(s):  
Women Activists ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Foreign Minister ◽  
The United States ◽  
Viet Nam ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
The North ◽  
Vietnamese Women ◽  
Peace Activists ◽  
The World

After peace talks began in Paris, the female delegation of Nguyen Thi Binh, foreign minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) of South Viet Nam, spearheaded people's diplomatic efforts as Binh’s own poised, determined, and feminine presence on the world stage inspired countless women around the world. Complementing the PRG women's efforts, U.S. women activists continued to travel to Viet Nam—both North and South. The context of American women's activism had shifted in two significant ways, however. First, the incarceration of Vietnamese political prisoners in South Viet Nam in "tiger cages" came to light in July 1970. Second, the context of growing feminist sentiment colored the views of women peace activists. The U.S. military's complicity in the deplorable prison conditions in the South led women peace activists to perceive social inequalities in the United States as they also noted the distinguished positions of women in North Viet Nam. They came to describe Vietnamese women in the North as having gained "liberation" and claimed South Vietnamese society had actually deteriorated because of U.S. intervention.

Taking minority women’s activism seriously

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Bassel ◽  
Akwugo Emejulu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Women Activists ◽  
Minority Women ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Participant Characteristics ◽  
Citizenship Regimes ◽  
Key Terms

In this introductory chapter, we discuss the three national contexts in which our research project was based, highlighting the particular citizenship regimes of each country and the implications for our minority women activists. We then move on to provide further details about the research, detailing our methods, sampling, participant characteristics and coding and analysis frame. We define the key terms that we will be using throughout this book. Finally, we conclude with an overview of how the 2008 economic crisis and subsequent austerity measures impacted on minority and migrant women in France and Britain.

Implementation Support Skills: Findings From a Systematic Integrative Review

2020 ◽  
pp. 104973152096741
Author(s):  
Bianca Albers ◽  
Allison Metz ◽  
Katie Burke ◽  
Leah Bührmann ◽  
Leah Bartley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Services ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Implementation Support ◽  
Implementing Change ◽  
Support Strategies ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Support Skills ◽  
Expert Recommendations

Purpose: Skills in selecting and designing strategies for implementing research-supported interventions (RSIs) within specific local contexts are important for progressing a wider RSI adoption and application in human and social services. This also applies to a particular role in implementation, the implementation support practitioner (ISP). This study examines which strategies have been reported as being used by ISPs across multiple bodies of research on implementation support and how these strategies were applied in concrete practice settings. Methods: A systematic integrative review was conducted. Data analysis utilized the Expert Recommendations for Implementing Change compilation of implementation strategies. Results: Studies reported on 18 implementation strategies commonly used by different ISPs, who require mastery in selecting, operationalizing, and detailing these. Two further strategies not included in the ERIC compilation could be identified. Discussion: Given the use of primarily more feasible implementation support strategies among ISPs, their potential as agents of change may be underutilized.

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