Wole Soyinka’s Ori Olokun Emprise and Autobiography by Adetayo Alabi

“…This focus on community manifests itself in terms of resistance, solidarity, and inclusiveness in the autobiographies of slaves, creative writers, and political activists.  A new dimension to the superordinate presence of the community in Black autobiography is in terms of diaspora sensibility.  …”
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« Le réveil de la conscience hakka de Taïwan » by Pei-yi Ko

“…The intervention of a whole generation of university graduates who returned to their native region (fanxiang housheng, “the juniors who returned home”) was decisive in this resistance. These young activists succeeded in developing a large regional and international network of relationships through different associations, and mobilising many official cultural resources to the point of entirely creating a worship dedicated to yellow butterflies, borrowing and reinventing the very ancient Confucian liturgy of the so-called “Three Offerings” (sanxianli). …”
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Attitudes toward Female Circumcision among Men and Women in Two Districts in Somalia: Is It Time to Rethink Our Eradication Strategy in Somalia? by Abdi A. Gele, Bente P. Bø, Johanne Sundby

“…A purposive sampling of 24 Somalis, including activists and practitioners, men and women, was conducted in Somalia. …”
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Hāloa: The long breath of Hawaiian sovereignty, water rights, and Indigenous law by Puanani Apoliona-Brown

“…My research is guided by the moʻolelo (oral histories) of nā kūpuna who were once the “radical” activists of the Hawaiian Renaissance. Their stories shed light on a history unaccounted for in standard textbooks and reveal a genealogy of Native Hawaiian resistance that was reawakened under the banner of Aloha ‘Āina (reciprocal love of land). …”
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A Periodical "Pagalba" Issued by the Protestant Wing of the National Movement of Lithuania Minor in Germany (till 1919) by Domas Kaunas

“…Vilius Gaigalaitis (1870-1945)- a well-known Lithuanian activists a deputy of Prussian Parliament (landtag), an Evangelical-Lutheran priesi - edited it. …”
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The Transnational Construction and Maintenance of Digital Feminist Media Activism: Engagement Practices in  the Global South and North by Mariana Fagundes-Ausani

“…The article observes, from a transitional perspective, how feminist activists appropriate digital spaces to produce informative content about gender equity and how they organise themselves to maintain feminist media projects in terms of content production and public access to this information. …”
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Ecological situation in the modern Russian Federation: comparison with other countries as a basis for new ideas for the development of the state by M. S. Efremova

“…There is an interest in the analysis of existing environmental problems among social activists. The purpose of this article is to develop new ideas and directions for improving the environmental policy of Russia, based on an analysis of existing problems. …”
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SOME FEATURES OF LEGAL REGULATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: FOREIGN AND NATIONAL EXPERIENCE by Г.Г. Галиакбарова

“…The conducted research is of potential value for domestic legislators, lawyers, human rights activists, students, and anyone interested in the legal regulation of artificial intelligence. …”
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Local knowledge and amateur participation. Shevchenko Scientific Society, 1892–1914 by Martin Rohde

“…The relation between ‘scientists’ and ‘amateurs’ is problematized on the basis of biographical examples of engaged scientists and activists, especially Volodymyr Hnatiuk from the Ethnographic Commission and Stanislav Dnistriansky from the Statistical Commission. …”
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‘Laugh a defiance, Laugh in hope’: Suffrage Comedy and Humour as Political Protest by Eleanor Stewart

“…Whilst hostile anti-suffragist discourse accused feminists of lacking a sense of humour, the comedies portray the resolutely cheerful and feisty female activists as agents of humour. By doing so, the playwrights overturn stereotypes and challenge the conventional gender power dynamics of a patriarchal society in which men dictated laughter. …”
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Time to be seen and heard: Including children’s and adolescents’ voices in the South African TB response by C Goslett, K du Preez, G Hendricks, A Best

“…Additional steps could be the inclusion of children’s feedback in community-led monitoring efforts and engagement between child TB activists and the SA TB Caucus, a collective of parliamentarians. …”
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Speculative Criminality at Home: Bypassing Tenant Rights Through Police Surveillance in Detroit’s Rental Housing by Rae Baker

“…While the program has been identified as a marker of gentrification by housing and anti-surveillance activists and residents, it has also raised concern about perpetuating the criminalization of Black Detroiters, specifically those living in rental housing that hosts the technology. …”
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The Role of Geomorphologic Factors in Economic Activities of Border Regions (Case Study: Sardasht County) by Javad Heshmati, Afshan Ghasemi, Rezvan Hemati

“…Therefore, well-known people, including students and economic activists, have been used. The results indicate that about 70 percent of rural settlements are located in slopes with more than 20 percent and about 55 percent of rural settlements in elevations above 1400 meters. …”
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We need a global language rights movement: confronting the global language crisis with insights from social movement studies by Gerald Roche

“…Since the late 1980s, academics and activists have been drawing attention to a slow-moving global crisis: the ongoing destruction of global linguistic diversity. …”
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Excerpt from Moore’s Mugabe’s Legacy: Coups, Conspiracies, and the Conceits of Power in Zimbabwe by David B. Moore

“…My end-that-is-a-new-beginning entailed the somewhat magical way I discovered that Robert Mugabe had indeed reached the final point of his mortal coil, and my recounting of Stephen Groote’s hastily rallied Zimbabwean éminence activistes grises’ epitaphs on SAFM’s Sunrise. Surprisingly (to me), none of them mentioned in other than laudatory mode Mugabe’s learning many of his trade’s tricks during Zimbabwe’s liberation war. …”
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What we talk about when we talk about decentralization? Insights from post-revolution Tunisia by Lana Salman

“…I then turn to Tunisia and compare the language of these reports with the language that activists use to characterize decentralization in relation to regional inequalities. …”
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The effective key drivers on regional innovation in Iranian metropolises with a future research approach (case study: Tabriz metropolis) by ameneh alibakhshi, mohammadreza pourmohammadi, rasoul ghorbani

“…The research findings show that out of a total of 71 influential factors, 13 factors include an appropriate productivity culture, laws and regulations, the existence of a teamwork culture between activists and established industry units, information and communication technology infrastructure, sufficient funding for university research infrastructure, higher education, patent programs, higher education policy, performance evaluation and payment system, financial support, a special and flexible tax system for research and development, and research centers.…”
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Local media reporting and influence on political communication in the North of Kosovo and Metohija by Jakšić Teodora Lj, Marjanović Milica M.

“…The aim was to determine the influence of local media in the Serbian language from the North of Kosovo and Metohija in creating public opinion, the degree of trust in media reporting, as well as the existence of cooperation between political activists and professional communicators. The research method was applied, along with interview and survey techniques. …”
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Juvenile delinquency in the 1960s and the activities of the militia to prevent it by V. A. Grechenko

“…For this purpose, militia children’s rooms were organised, and public activists were involved in working with “difficult” adolescents. …”
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Crossing The Border With Hashtags: Twitter's Bridging The Gezi Park And The Yellow Vest Movements by Seher Karataş, Enderhan Karakoç

“…However, when the Twitter data set analysed in the study is taken into consideration, it is found that Twitter played an important role in the Yellow Vests and Gezi Park Protests, as well as drawing a route for activists and being one of the platforms used in the movements thanks to its immediacy feature…”
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