This dissertation examines the survival and expansion strategies of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) by focusing on its organization and mobilization activities during the War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945). I argue that the Communist forces quickly expanded during the wartime not merely because the War provided an opportunity to avoid the Guomingdang (GMD)’s intensive military aggression and legitimately expand itself throughout China. More importantly, it also allowed the CCP to develop a unique political culture with a grasp on local knowledge during the years under investigation. This cultural climate worked to rejuvenate itself through organizational consolidation and the rebuilding of political identity. Together, these factors accounted for the dramatic expansion of the CCP’s membership and military forces, which prepared the Party for its takeover of the country after the Japanese surrender. The main body of this dissertation is composed of five thematic chapters. Chapter two explores the CCP’s penetration into local society through mass resistance associations and political renovation of existing power structures. Chapter three investigates Communist propaganda activities, the success of which laid in coordination with the Party’s follow-up organizational arrangements. The next chapter examines the Communist educational institutions as a channel of mass mobilization that further reinforced its penetration into various social groups. Chapter five uses Grain Tax, conscription and mobilization of anti-pacification campaign, all of which required personal sacrifice from the masses, as three instances that exemplified the Party’s controllability over local communities. Finally, chapter six focuses on its strategies to contain undesirable tendencies of local cadres and strengthen ideological consensus within the Party. / text

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This dissertation examines the development of litigation and legal mobilization as constructive, participatory, strategic processes that have the potential to promote democratization and institution building in fragile democracies. Using Argentina and Bolivia as case studies, I show that the innovative use of strategic litigation and legal mobilization taking place in Latin America today holds significant promise for promoting social and institutional development in countries struggling with competing democratic and authoritarian impulses. A close examination of how local and regional permutations of strategic litigation play out at the intersection of law and politics in fragile democracies generates a more accurate, richer account of the relationship between law and democracy writ large, a relationship that has yet to be fully or properly theorized. / text

The current socio-economic and political landscape of Sudan and South Sudan can be described as one that is war-ridden and deeply divided by religion, culture, ethnicity and ownership over oil. It has been more than twelve months since the secession of Southern Sudan from the North (See Map 1). Despite the secession, general instability continues. To deal with this turmoil, Sudan declared a so-called “state of emergency” in 2012 along its border with South Sudan. The reason for this was the on-going tension between North Sudan and South Sudan over ownership of the oil-rich Abyei area. This conflict over oil is furthermore fuelled by diverse internal divisions among the Sudanese population (North and South). Sudanese diversity is characterized by two opposing antagonistic religious groupings, namely the Arabic North, whose main religious belief is Islam, and the so-called “black Africans” in the South, whose religious belief is mainly Christianity or Animist. In addition to this primary division there are also over 570 ethnic groups in Sudan (North and South). Conflicts and tension between the different ethnic groups is furthermore caused by disputes over natural resources such as water, livestock and land as well as political power and economic gains. Despite the continued conflict the assumption in this study was that the signing and implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) (2005–2011) represented a potential step towards eventual stability. This dissertation therefore focuses, as a case study, on an analytical description of the CPA and its outcomes. Specific reference was made to the role and impact of political mobilization by using an instrumental approach as a framework for analysis. In the above regard, research centred on the following three themes: *Ethnic mobilization as a factor in the political destabilization of Sudan since independence and towards the implementation of the CPA; *Ethnic mobilization as a guideline in the structuring of the CPA; and *Ethnic mobilization and the eventual outcome of the CPA. By addressing the above themes, the study attempted firstly to provide a balanced perspective on the causes of continued instability and conflict in Sudan. Secondly, an attempt was made to provide a future scenario for the possible unfolding of socio-economic and political developments in Sudan and South Sudan. / MA (Political studies), North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2013

This research examines the revolution of 2010 in Tunisia due to the paucity of empirical research on the subject and to resolve analytical problems that plague research on similar events. The research is based in both the cultural turn in social movement research and the state constructionist theory of revolutions. The methodology employed is a case study which combines a content analysis of an Al Jazeera news program called Al Hassad Al Maghrebi with data from two public opinion surveys conducted in Tunisia shortly after the revolution, and pre-existing academic research. The findings indicate that Al Jazeera did play a role in increasing mobilization against the Ben Ali regime by broadcasting the spread of protests and regime concessions. This was facilitated by the censorship practices of the Ben Ali regime which caused a popular news channel like Al Jazeera to rely purely on opposition sources for its broadcasts.

Thesis (M.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1944.

Inaug.-Diss.--Bonn. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 230-238.

Thesis (M.P.H.)--University of Michigan, 1944.

NASCIMENTO, Thalyta Vasconcelos do. Narrativas dos alunos do Centro de Educação de Jovens e Adultos Professor Gilmar Maia: móbeis e sentidos na relação com o saber. 2017. 120f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza (CE), 2017. / Submitted by Gustavo Daher (gdaherufc@hotmail.com) on 2017-09-08T13:28:03Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_dis_tvnascimento.pdf: 951833 bytes, checksum: 39f7a6406978eb924ab0cc382280fe96 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-09-08T17:21:54Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_dis_tvnascimento.pdf: 951833 bytes, checksum: 39f7a6406978eb924ab0cc382280fe96 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-08T17:21:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2017_dis_tvnascimento.pdf: 951833 bytes, checksum: 39f7a6406978eb924ab0cc382280fe96 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017 / This research aims to analyze the narratives of the students of the Center for Youth and Adult Education professor Gilmar Maia de Souza in Fortaleza - Ceará, taking into account the elements of mobilization and the senses, in relation to the school knowledge, which follow-up studies. This research will be developed through narratives of the life histories of these students, through which we seek to list the subjectivities found in their speeches. The methodology used is classified as qualitative and the methods we use to perform the data collection have met the following instruments: interviews followed by a participant observation (a field diary). The research subjects were selected according to the following profile: they should be students of the Youth and Adult Education Center with at least one year of experience, that is, from the year 2016. This research has in its theoretical basis authors such as: Bernard Charlot, Christine Delory-Momberger, among others. We used as a source of theoretical support for the construction of the introduction of this research, as well as the organization of the referenced research the books "Democratization of Public School" (whose author is José Carlos Libâneo) and the work "School and Democracy" whose author is Dermeval Saviani . The theme of this research is situated within the scope of research on the history of education and its specificities refer to the elements of mobilization, activity and senses, as well as the relationship with school knowledge and life story narratives. We can conclude, initially, that the specific objectives as well as the general objectives were successfully achieved, just as the guiding hypothesis was also satisfactorily considered. / Esta pesquisa tem como proposta analisar as narrativas dos alunos do Centro de Educação de Jovens e Adultos professor Gilmar Maia de Souza em Fortaleza – Ceará, levando em consideração os elementos de mobilização e os sentidos, na relação com o saber escolar, que os impulsionaram a dar seguimento aos estudos. Esta investigação será desenvolvida através de narrativas das histórias de vida desses alunos, por meio das quais buscaremos elencar as subjetividades encontradas em suas falas. A metodologia utilizada classifica-se como sendo qualitativa e os métodos que utilizamos para a realização da coleta de dados atenderam os seguintes instrumentos: entrevistas seguidas de uma observação participante (um diário de campo). Os sujeitos da pesquisa foram selecionados de acordo com o seguinte perfil: deveriam ser alunos do Centro de Educação de Jovens e Adultos com pelo menos um ano de vivência, ou seja, a partir do ano de 2016. Esta pesquisa tem em sua fundamentação teórica autores como: Bernard Charlot, Christine Delory-Momberger, entre outros. Utilizamos como fonte de amparo teórico para a construção da introdução desta pesquisa, bem como da organização da referenciada investigação os livros “Democratização da Escola Pública” (cujo autor é José Carlos Libâneo) e a obra “Escola e Democracia” cujo autor é Dermeval Saviani. A temática desta pesquisa está situada no âmbito das investigações da história da educação e as suas especificidades se referem aos elementos de mobilização, atividade e sentidos, bem como, a relação com o saber escolar e as narrativas de histórias de vida. Podemos concluir, inicialmente, que os objetivos específicos, assim como o geral foram atingidos com êxito, da mesma forma que a hipótese norteadora também foi contemplada de forma satisfatória.

In this thesis we study the impact of time in the analysis of social networks. To do that we represent a knowledge mobilization network, Knowledge-Net, both as a standard static graph and a time-varying graph and study both graphs to see their differences. For our study, we implemented some temporal metrics and added them to Gephi, an open source software for graph and network analysis which already contains some static metrics. Then we used that software to obtain our results. Knowledge-Net is a network built using the knowledge mobilization concept. In social science, knowledge mobilization is defined as the use of knowledge towards the achievement of goals. The networks which are built using the knowledge mobilization concept make more visible the relations among heterogeneous human and non-human individuals, organizational actors and non-human mobilization actors. A time-varying graph is a graph with nodes and edges appearing and disappearing over time. A journey in a time-varying graph is equivalent to a path in a static graph. The notion of shortest path in a static graph has three variations in a time-varying graph: the shortest journey is the journey with the least number of temporal hops, the fastest journey is the journey that takes the least amount of time and the foremost journey is the journey that arrives the soonest. Out of those three, we focus on the foremost journey for our analysis.