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1	Perceptions of undergraduate education students from within an elementary teacher education programme MacMath, Sheryl. 10 April 2008 (has links) No description available.
2	Anticipated changes to quality of life and the impact of divergent social normative information: a field experiment on sustainable transportation behaviour. Kormos, Christine 15 November 2010 (has links) This study evaluated anticipated changes to quality of life (QoL) from a reduction in private vehicle use, and the impact of social normative information on willingness to change transportation behaviour. Staff and students at the University of Victoria completed transport journals for a month, and participants in the low or high social norm condition received divergent information about the percentage of others who had switched to sustainable commuting. Unexpectedly, message content did not predict behavioural change, but mere receipt of a message, versus the control condition, did predict change. The results suggest that sustainable transport campaigns should highlight others‟ cooperation, regardless of their rate of cooperation, and target commuting behavior. Also, participants expected decreases to individually relevant QoL items and improvements to collectively relevant QoL items under a hypothetical reduction in private vehicle use. The findings may be employed by policy-makers to increase acceptance of transportation policies. Local transit Automobiles Environmental aspects Transportation University of Victoria (B.C.)
3	Molarization and singularization: social movements, transformation and hegemony. Montgomery, Nicholas 06 January 2011 (has links) This thesis presents a critique of counterhegemony, arguing that imperatives of unity and coherence in social movement theory and practice tend to limit potentials for transformation. I use the 'new social movement theory' of Alberto Melucci and Alain Touraine in order to foreground the problem of intelligibility. Laclau and Mouffe’s conception of articulation is used to develop the problem of intelligibility, and helps to avoid reification. However, I argue that their concept of counterhegemony presents a blackmail where social movements either represent themselves in universal terms, or are cast as merely fragmented and particular. The Deleuzo-Guattarian concepts molarization and molecularization are used to argue that social movements that appear fragmented or vague may in fact be transformative in unexpected ways. The final chapter focuses on a recent guerilla garden at the University of Victoria, and I argue that it is significant in its capacity to foreground problems and suspend commonsense habits, without presenting a coherent and unified programme. Deleuze Guattari Massumi Laclau activism protest singularity molar molecular politics politicization counterhegemony nonhegemonic postanarchism poststructuralism articulation political space Magnusson marxism postmarxism universality particularity University of Victoria (B.C) guerrilla garden UVic

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