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In this paper, I make use of the game-theoretical concepts of cartel theory and coordination theory via salience and Schelling points in order to assess the viability of prefigurative politics when used by group actors to address the particular case of the climate crisis. I show that prefigurative politics as a strategy faces significant systematic disadvantages when used by social movements attempting to address climate change as compared to when it is used by social movements focused on other causes. These disadvantages are based on two factors: lack of motivation and a difficulty of coordination. In order to illustrate this point, I compare the situation for contemporary climate movements to a case example of the Montgomery bus boycott of 1957, showing how cartel theory worked in the favour of the civil rights movement, and how salience was crucial for the fast mobilisation of the African American community of Montgomery.

A tese de doutorado intitulada Mulheres Negras em Movimento, analisa o processo de formação do ativismo transnacional de mulheres negras na América Latina, entre os anos 1980 e 1995. A abordagem metodológica utilizada vem da Teoria do Confronto Político, da Sociologia Relacional e dos estudos sobre Ativismo Transnacional. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar o processo de formação da Rede de Mulheres Afro Latino-Americanas, Afro-caribenhas e da Diáspora RMAAD. Este processo é reconstruído a partir da trajetória de oito ativistas latino-americanas e do funcionamento dos espaços internacionais de ação política para os movimentos sociais, em particular as Conferências Mundiais da ONU e os Encontros Feministas Latino-americanos, que permitiram o desenvolvimento da ação política coletiva aqui analisada. A hipótese do trabalho é que as conexões entre as ativistas negras latino-americanas produziram, a partir de repertórios discursivos disponíveis, um novo enquadramento interpretativo crucial para produzir a mobilização, o Feminismo Negro Latino-americano. Procura-se demonstrar que este processo culminou na formação de um movimento transnacional de mulheres negras, ou seja, de um movimento que transcendas fronteiras nacionais. / The doctoral thesis entitled Black Women in Movement analyzes the process of formation of transnational black women activism in Latin America between the years 1980 and 1995. The methodological approach used comes from Political Confrontation Theory, Relational Sociology and studies on Transnational Activism. The objective of this work is to analyze the process of formation of the Network of Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women - RMAAD, based on the trajectory of eight Latin American activists and on international spaces of political action for social movements as the UN World Conferences and the Latin American Feminist Meetings that allowed the development of political action. The hypothesis of the work indicates that the connections between Latin American black activists produced, during this period, an interpretative framework, Latin American Black Feminism, based on discursive repertoires, that mobilized this population of women culminating in the formation of a transnational movement, that is, a movement that transcends national boundaries.

A tese de doutorado intitulada Mulheres Negras em Movimento, analisa o processo de formação do ativismo transnacional de mulheres negras na América Latina, entre os anos 1980 e 1995. A abordagem metodológica utilizada vem da Teoria do Confronto Político, da Sociologia Relacional e dos estudos sobre Ativismo Transnacional. O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar o processo de formação da Rede de Mulheres Afro Latino-Americanas, Afro-caribenhas e da Diáspora RMAAD. Este processo é reconstruído a partir da trajetória de oito ativistas latino-americanas e do funcionamento dos espaços internacionais de ação política para os movimentos sociais, em particular as Conferências Mundiais da ONU e os Encontros Feministas Latino-americanos, que permitiram o desenvolvimento da ação política coletiva aqui analisada. A hipótese do trabalho é que as conexões entre as ativistas negras latino-americanas produziram, a partir de repertórios discursivos disponíveis, um novo enquadramento interpretativo crucial para produzir a mobilização, o Feminismo Negro Latino-americano. Procura-se demonstrar que este processo culminou na formação de um movimento transnacional de mulheres negras, ou seja, de um movimento que transcendas fronteiras nacionais. / The doctoral thesis entitled Black Women in Movement analyzes the process of formation of transnational black women activism in Latin America between the years 1980 and 1995. The methodological approach used comes from Political Confrontation Theory, Relational Sociology and studies on Transnational Activism. The objective of this work is to analyze the process of formation of the Network of Afro-Latin American, Afro-Caribbean and Diaspora Women - RMAAD, based on the trajectory of eight Latin American activists and on international spaces of political action for social movements as the UN World Conferences and the Latin American Feminist Meetings that allowed the development of political action. The hypothesis of the work indicates that the connections between Latin American black activists produced, during this period, an interpretative framework, Latin American Black Feminism, based on discursive repertoires, that mobilized this population of women culminating in the formation of a transnational movement, that is, a movement that transcends national boundaries.

Contributing to the literature on the Muslim experience post-9/11, the purpose of this study was to engage with a group that is often talked about, but not with: Muslim youth. Using an integrative anti-racist and anti-colonial approach with an emphasis on a spiritual way of knowing, this study gives voice to young Muslim activists in Toronto who have made the choice to “do something”. The study aims to understand what motivates these young activists, particularly in the context of post-9/11 Islamophobia, with the goal being to challenge stereotypical perceptions of Muslims, while contributing to the body of knowledge that aims to disrupt dominant notions of what “Canadian” identity is. The following analysis helps answer this question, which includes the role of spirituality, the attachment to Canadian identity and the desire to educate. Key challenges and what these youth prescribe for Canada’s future are also discussed.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:24:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2185.pdf: 11355897 bytes, checksum: 5be70d5d184fb1f5f2239b8583fcfb4c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-11-26 / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / This study examines the university student movement of the 1970s and the Public Act at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP) in 1977, culminating in an episode of police violence against the students. The focus of the search fell on the path of life of a group of former student activists in order to understand, first, how they are linked and part of the student movement, and secondly, if the experience of participation in student movement was able to generate some influence or socialization in terms of political and professional after entering the stage of university education of ex-militants. Theoretically, this study establishes a dialogue with the sociological approaches that focus on the radical student collective actions and roles of young people, and is back to understanding the changes in the patterns of militancy that might occur in the transition from juvenile to life adulthood and integration into the world of work. The methodology of the History of Life provided the basis for the analysis of the biography of former student activists, and from that methodological feature found that the political militancy was a determining factor of student activism and, consequently, a more active participation in the movement university student. The study showed that after training and shutdown of the student movement, the former student activists have continued the practice of political militancy and experience of participation in the student movement has strong influence in their career options. / O presente estudo aborda o movimento estudantil universitário da década de 1970 e o Ato Público na Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), em 1977, evento que culminou num episódio de violência policial contra os estudantes. O enfoque da pesquisa recaiu sobre a trajetória de vida de um grupo de ex-militantes estudantis, com o propósito de compreender, em primeiro lugar, como eles se vincularam e participaram do movimento estudantil e, em segundo lugar, se a experiência de participação no movimento estudantil foi capaz de gerar alguma influência ou socialização em termos de inserção política e profissional após a fase de formação universitária desses ex-militantes. Teoricamente, o presente estudo estabelece uma interlocução com as abordagens sociológicas que enfocam o radicalismo estudantil e as ações coletivas protagonizadas por jovens, e se volta para compreensão das mudanças nos padrões de militância que possam vir a ocorrer na fase de transição da vida juvenil para a vida adulta e inserção no mundo do trabalho. A metodologia de História de Vida serviu de base para a análise da biografia dos ex-militantes estudantis. A partir desse recurso metodológico constatou-se que a militância política foi um fator determinante da militância estudantil e, conseqüentemente, de uma participação mais ativa no movimento estudantil universitário. O estudo comprovou que após a formação acadêmica e desligamento do movimento estudantil, os ex-militantes estudantis deram continuidade à prática de militância política e a experiência de participação no movimento estudantil desempenhou forte influência nas suas opções de carreira profissional.

Shareholder activism has exploded in popularity since the turn of the century, due in large part to impressive relative returns generated by its major participants. The result has thus been a surge in assets invested in the category, to in excess of $170 billion today up from less than $3 billion in 2000 (Inglis 2015; Romito 2015). This influx of capital, in absolute dollars and pace of growth, has caused many to wonder whether activists truly create shareholder value and, if so, if the value generated is sustainable. Numerous studies of activist interventions prior to 2009 reveal significant stock price gains around the time of activist arrival and positive longer term buy-and-hold abnormal returns as well. The question remains, however, whether those trends have continued as volume of transactions and number of activists have increased post the recent global financial crisis. In this report, we perform an empirical analysis focused on a hand-collected dataset of 1,088 activist interventions from 1995-present. This dataset includes all 13D filings, as well as Under the Threshold activist campaigns. First, we analyze stock price returns for this group over short- and long-term periods and find that activists continue to unlock shareholder value in recent deals comparable to that of earlier ones. We then perform a proprietary regression to identify which factors drive the most successful returns. Such insights should prove informative for investors employing an activist strategy and companies looking to manage areas of vulnerability.

La présente thèse porte sur l'activisme juridictionnel du Tribunal Fédéral suprême du Brésil dans le cadre de la constitution de 1988, c'est-à-dire sur les méthodes et les stratégies permettant à la Cour d'affirmer son rôle vis-à-vis du justiciable et des autres pouvoirs publics. L'activisme y est étudié en utilisant les concepts développés par la doctrine française, les plaçant dans le contexte de la séparation des pouvoirs consacrée par la constitution de 1988. D'un point de vue méthodologique, cette thèse s'appuie sur une démarche qualitative, et privilégie l'analyse des décisions judiciaires. Elle se compose de deux parties, découpées en huit chapitres totaux. La première partie se concentre sur les conditions permettant l'activisme du Tribunal fédéral suprême. Elle démontre que ce phénomène a eu lieu en raison de la convergence contextuelle de diverses circonstances historiques, institutionnelles, normatives et doctrinales, au nombre desquelles les plus importantes ont été des innovations apportées par la constitution de 1988 et l'adoption de nouvelles conceptions doctrinales de la fonction du juge constitutionnel dans l’État de droit. La deuxième partie identifie et analyse les manifestations concrètes de l'activisme de la Cour. Partant des motifs des décisions judiciaires, elle expose les orientations et l'évolution des politiques jurisprudentielles du Tribunal fédéral suprême, mises en perspective avec les compétences des autres institutions. La configuration normative et doctrinale de la séparation des pouvoirs au Brésil, comme l'identification des compétences attribuées au Tribunal suprême, servent ainsi d'instrument heuristique pour l'exposition du rhème abordé. / This dissertation joins a vibrant conversation in legal sciences about judicial activism and the place of supreme courts and constutional tribunal in today's representative democracies. It explores the judicial activism of the Brazilian Supreme court under the Constitution of 1988. Following the tradition of French law schools, the dissertation is divided two parts. The first part examines the scope and context of the Supreme court's activism. It posits that an expansion of the Court's role in relation to the Legislative, Executive and Judicial Branches, starting ine the 1990's, originated in many historical, institutional, normative and doctrinal innovations that took place in Brazil after democratization in the 1980's. Notably, the promulgation of a democratic Constitution in 1988 and the adoption of new theoretical concepts regarding the role of the Judiciary in a democracy were key factors that allowed the court to rethink its place among Brazil'q supreme organs of State. The second part identifies ans examines the concrete manifestations of the Supreme Court's activism. Focusing on the qualitive analysis of the Court's decisions, the dissertation delineates the evolution of selected key themes in the Court's case law, considering it within the context of the competences conferred by the Constitution to other branches of government. Thus, the separation of powers as defined by the Constitution of 1988 is the heuristic device employed to organize the analysis and demonstrate the expansion of the Court into the domains of the Legislative, Executive and Judiciary powers.

On the night of April 20, 2010, a group of students from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Río Piedras campus, met to organize an indefinite strike that quickly broadened into a defense of accessible public higher education of excellence as a fundamental right and not a privilege. Although the history of student activism in the UPR can be traced back to the early 1900s, the 2010-2011 strike will be remembered for the student activists’ use of new media technologies as resources that rapidly prompted and aided the numerous protests. This activist research entailed a critical ethnography and a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of traditional and alternative media coverage and treatment during the 2010 -2011 UPR student strike. I examined the use of the 2010-2011 UPR student activists’ resistance performances in constructing local, corporeal, and virtual spaces of resistance and contention during their movement. In particular, I analyzed the different tactics and strategies of resistance or repertoire of collective actions that student activists used (e.g. new media technologies) to frame their collective identities via alternative news media’s (re)presentation of the strike, while juxtaposing the university administration’s counter-resistance performances in counter-framing the student activists’ collective identity via traditional news media representations of the strike. I illustrated how both traditional and alternative media (re)presentations of student activism developed, maintained, and/or modified students activists’ collective identities. As such, the UPR student activism’s success should not be measured by the sum of demands granted, but by the sense of community achieved and the establishment of networks that continue to create resistance and change. These networks add to the debate surrounding Internet activism and its impact on student activism. Ultimately, the results of this study highlight the important role student movements have had in challenging different types of government policies and raising awareness of the importance of an accessible public higher education of excellence.

The struggle to end violence against women and girls has long been a priority topic for women’s and feminist movements in Latin America. Lately, since the changes in the new media landscape (Castells 2015; Lievrouw, 2013) with the increased use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, the way women and feminist movements advocate their intentions are changing (Harcourt, 2013; Mathos, 2017). Departing from this reality, the aim is to investigate the role the use of social media activism played for the recent feminist movement, Ni Una Menos (NUM [Not One Less]), in Argentina and Chile while advocating for the end of violence against women. Taking a cross disciplinary approach this research combines theories from the fields of feminist studies, social movement and communication sciences. Through in-depth interviews with core activists from NUM both in Argentina and Chile as research method, it has been possible to identify the role of certain social media platforms for NUM’s tactical repertoire in their strive to advocate for the end of violence against women and girls. The findings also demonstrate the activism on social media platforms by the NUM movement has played an important role to set the topic on the public agenda in these countries, resulting in a generally greater awareness. Regardless off the role social media activism played, the importance seems to lie in a combination of activism on social media and the streets for feminist movements advocating to end violence against women because it assures a broad reach to all people in society. Nevertheless, to end violence against women in these countries much more effort is needed by society at large.