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The Changing Landscape of Women's Rights Activism in China: The Continued Legacy of the Beijing Conference
The Beijing Conference was a watershed moment in the history of the global women’s movement and had an unprecedented impact in the Global North and South on lawmaking, institution building, and movement building. This Article details the development of women’s activism in China since the Beijing Conference and how a changing legal landscape impacts this activism. While its progress is emblematic of the inconsistencies in the progression of women’s rights activism since the Beijing Conference, China’s efforts have been significant and varied and represent a model for other countries seeking to reform women’s rights legislation. This Article identifies important lines of inquiry that merit further investigation in China and offers insights for conducting similar investigations elsewhere. This Article also outlines a framework for the shifting nature of women’s legal activism from 1995 to 2020 and the ways that the international community can capitalize on these changes and continue to galvanize efforts toward legislative and cultural reform. This Article concludes that the Beijing Conference’s goals may be actualized with financial backing and an apolitical and academic focus, and asserts that increased unity among activist groups is needed in China.
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The other digital China : nonconfrontational activism on the social web
The Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web maps out the emerging ecosystem of Chinese activism 2.0 that traverses multiple sectors-the NGO sector, universities, the corporate sector, and the IT sector-where change agents are creating social good in non-contentious ways and engaged in constructing the new \"social\" under difficult ideological constraints. Focusing on social media and tech practices emerging from China's social sector in recent years, this book provides a multifaceted look at the Chinese society caught at a transformative moment, thanks in part to the arrival of Web 2.0 technology and the accompanying cyber utopianism, as well as the Communist Party's recently alleged commitment to policies aimed at energizing the hitherto weak social structure. Wang develops the idea of \"nonconfrontational activism\" and argues that it's possible to talk about the agency of \"change-makers\" even in authoritarian countries.-- Provided by publisher.
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OSOBINE LICNOSTI I LOKUS KONTROLE KAO PREDIKTORI GRADANSKOG AKTIVIZMA/Personality Traits and Locus of Control as Predictors of Civil Activism
Cilj ovog istrazivanja bio je provjeriti mogucnost objasnjenja raznih oblika gradanskog aktivizma na temelju osobina licnosti Petofaktorskoga modela lokusa kontrole i nekih sociodemografskih varijabli. U istrazivanju je sudjelovalo 278 aktivnih clanova iz 25 organizacija civilnoga drustva. Podaci su prikupljeni BFI upitnikom licnosti, Rotterovom skalom unutarnjeg prema izvanjskom mjestu kontrole potkrepljenja, Indeksom gradanskog aktivizma i Skalom aktivisticke orientacije. Rezultati istrazivanja pokazali su kako je ekstraverzija znacajan pozitivan prediktor gradanskog aktivizma i konvencionalnog aktivizma. Otvorenost prema iskustvu pokazala se kao znacajan pozitivan prediktor konvencionalnog aktivizma, dok se savjesnost pokazala kao znacajan negativan prediktor aktivizma visokog rizika. Lokus kontrole, neuroticizam i ugodnost nisu se pokazali kao znacajni prediktori raznih oblika gradanskog aktivizma. Osobinama licnosti, lokusom kontrole i sociodemografskim varijablama objasnjava se relativno malen udio varijance raznih oblika aktivizma (< 26 %). The aim of this study was to verify the possibility of predicting various forms of civil activism based on personality traits, locus of control, and some sociodemographic variables. In this study the participants were 278 activists from 25 NGOs. Data was collected using the Big Five Inventory, Rotter's Internal-External Locus of Control Scale, Index of Civil Activism, and Activism Orientation Scale. The results indicated that Extraversion was a positive predictor of civil activism and conventional activism. Openness to experience was a positive predictor of conventional activism, while consciousness was a negative predictor of high risk activism. Locus of control, neuroticism and agreeableness were not significant predictors of any of the various activism forms. Personality traits, locus of control, and sociodemographic variables were able to explain a relatively small percentage of variance (< 26%) in different forms of activism. Kljucne rijeci: osobine licnosti, lokus kontrole, gradanski aktivizam, aktivizam visokog rizika, konvencionalni aktivizam Keywords: personality traits, locus of control, civil activism, high risk activism, conventional activism
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A New Political Generation: Millennials and the Post-2008 Wave of Protest
Building on Karl Mannheim's theory of generations, this address argues that U.S. Millennials comprise a new political generation with lived experiences and worldviews that set them apart from their elders. Not only are they the first generation of \"digital natives,\" but, although they are more educated than any previous U.S. generation, they face a labor market in which precarity is increasingly the norm. And despite proclamations to the contrary, they confront persistent racial and gender disparities, discrimination against sexual minorities, and widening class inequality—all of which they understand in the framework of \"intersectionality.\" This address analyzes the four largest social movements spearheaded by college-educated Millennials: the young undocumented immigrant \"Dreamers,\" the 2011 Occupy Wall Street uprising, the campus movement protesting sexual assault, and the Black Lives Matter movement. All four reflect the distinctive historical experience of the Millennial generation, but they vary along two cross-cutting dimensions: (1) the social characteristics of activists and leaders, and (2) the dominant modes of organization and strategic repertoires.
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