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2021 ◽  
pp. 017084062110577
Author(s):  
Matthew C.B. Lyle ◽  
Ian J. Walsh ◽  
Diego M. Coraiola

Organizational identity scholarship has largely focused on the mutability of meanings ascribed to ambiguous identity labels. In contrast, we analyze a case study of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) to explore how leaders maintained a meaning ascribed to an ambiguous identity label amid successive identity threats. We found that heightened dissensus surrounding meanings attributed to the organization’s “reform group” label at three key points spurred theoretically similar manifestations of two processes. The first, meaning sedimentation, involved leaders invoking history to advocate for the importance of their preferred meaning while mulling the inclusion of others. The second, reconstructing the past, occurred as leaders and members alike offered narratives that obscured the history of disavowed meanings while sharing new memories of those they prioritized. Our work complements research on identity change by drawing attention to the processes by which meaning(s) underlying ambiguous identity labels might survive.


2021 ◽  
pp. 000276422110031
Author(s):  
David Lee ◽  

In November 2020, I spoke with Alan Blum, MD, scholar, collector, curator, exhibitor, activist, and director of the University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society (CSTS). He has been creating tobacco-themed exhibitions since the 1980s—in brick-and-mortar as well as digital settings—based on a prodigious collection of tobacco-related artifacts. Before joining CSTS, as founder of Doctors Ought to Care, a national organization of concerned and outspoken physicians, Blum satirized and protested at tobacco industry–sponsored events. In addition to being an avid museumgoer, he closely follows the tobacco industry’s sponsorship of museums and exhibitions. This article contains excerpts from our interview, with Blum addressing the dynamism of tobacco marketing, the irony of CSTS exhibitions, his recollections of past exhibitions, and what he regards as the complicity of other industries and professions. Be advised that the exhibitions Blum curates and the views he expresses “may be hazardous to people’s preconceptions.”


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Jenkins

This article focuses on the development of the charity Community Music Wales (CMW), which grew from a small collective of musicians in Cardiff in the 1980s to a national organization. Although comparisons can be drawn to other UK-based organizations such as Making Music UK, CMW is unique in its broad range of activities. The article outlines key milestones in the development of CMW throughout its 28 years of operation, including the introduction of its first music mentoring scheme, its community record label and its Welsh language label – Ciwdod. The article also highlights the development of community work that engages with key themes such as mental health and the environment. By engaging with company archives, the article considers quantitative data, such as the numbers of musicians who have attended training. Most importantly, it outlines how tutor training has upskilled the workforce and supported the creative economy of Wales.


2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-38
Author(s):  
Ian Peach

I. IntroductionThere has been an ongoing battle between Trinity Western University and the Federation of Law Societies of Canada — the national organization of the law societies that govern the legal profession in Canada — over whether Canada’s law societies will recognize JDs from the law faculty that Trinity Western wishes to establish. At the heart of this controversy is the fact that Trinity Western University, as an avowedly Christian, and some might say conservative, university, requires all of its faculty, staff, and students to sign a Community Covenant. Among other things, this Community Covenant prohibits “sexual intimacy that violates the sacredness of marriage between a man and a woman.”1 A student’s failure to comply with the Covenant could result in disciplinary measures, including suspension and possibly expulsion.2 Several law societies, including the Law Society of British Columbia and the (as it was then known) Law Society of Upper Canada, denied accreditation to Trinity Western’s proposed law faculty because of this Community Covenant...


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Alejandra Aguilar Herrera ◽  
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Alba Paula Granados Agüero ◽  
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In December 2015, the Paris Agreement was adopted at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Five years after the submission the NDC proposals and their initial implementation, signatory countries had to update and share the progress of their NDCs in 2020. This study carried out by Asociación Ambiente y Sociedad, ONAMIAP (National Organization of Andean and Amazonian Indigenous Women of Peru) and RRI analyzes the degree that human rights, women’s rights, and the rights of Indigenous Peoples and Afro-descendants are included in the NDCs of Colombia and Peru, as well as in the processes related to updating them.


2021 ◽  
pp. 140-150
Author(s):  
VLADIMIR N. ROGATIN ◽  

The current article represents an example of neo-fascist ideas exploitation within the endeavor of the National Organization of Russian Muslims (NORM). The main members of the NORM asset and projects that this organization tried to implement within the framework of activities are presented. The ideological transformation of the NORM is presented in accordance with the author's periodization, which includes four periods: the Jemalist-Salafi period, the Opposition (Murabitunov) period, the Slavic-Islamic period and the Islam-European period. Each of these periods implies ideological and structural changes in the NORM. The periodization reflects the stages of politicization and radicalization of the NORM and its representatives. At each stage of the work of the NORM there were stable ideas that this organization tried to put into practice: the formation of a separate ethnic community (consortium) united on religious grounds within the framework of Islam and the exploitation of neo-fascist and Islamist ideas combined with political activism...


2021 ◽  
pp. 53-65
Author(s):  
Lucian L. Leape

AbstractPrior to the first Annenberg Conference, none of us who were interested in patient safety had given any thought to forming a national organization—except for Marty Hatlie, the AMA’s legal counsel. Marty was intrigued by the success of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) that Jeep Pierce and Jeff Cooper had founded. He envisioned the formation of a similar national organization as the centerpiece of the refashioning of the AMA’s stance on patient safety after its stinging legislative defeat of tort reform.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-31
Author(s):  
Gajendra Birajee ◽  
Bandana Koirala ◽  
Senchhema Limbu ◽  
Mamta Dali ◽  
Sneha Shrestha

Pediatric dentistry is an age-defined specialty that includes a vast array of oral healthcare-related disciplines for children. It is the most needed health care services and yet the most neglected in Nepal. Specialist pediatric dental practice in Nepal started around two decades ago. The Nepalese Association of Pediatric Dentistry (NAPD) is a nonprofit, non-government, national organization of pediatric dentists of Nepal formed with the motto of uplifting oral health of children throughout the country. NAPD is consistently conducting conferences, workshops, continuing dental education (CDE) programs and symposiums. It also serves community by conducting many free oral health check-ups, and oral health awareness rallies for fulfilling the purpose of maintaining the good oral health of children.


2020 ◽  
pp. 180-182
Author(s):  
Joe William Trotter

The history of the Urban League of Pittsburgh is more than the tale of one city. It underscores the growth of a vibrant social movement. As past NUL president John Jacobs put it, the ULP mirrors the conditions that brought the national organization into existence, including “the kinds of people—black and white—who created it and struggled to keep it alive.”...


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