« Notre histoire compte » : Transmettre l’histoire des mouvements féministes et lesbiens à Genève by Carolina Topini, Isabelle Salem Diego Sentis

“…This article presents the approach and the stakes involved in the activist project « Our places, our parties, our fights: our history matters ». …”
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Mainstreaming Urban Interventionist Practices: the Case of the BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin by Monika Grubbauer

“…The Lab’s temporary residence in Berlin in 2012 encountered fierce protests from residents and activist groups. I revisit the ensuing public debates and discuss the impact they had on the project. …”
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De la «  modération  » chez des cadres du Parti de la justice et du développement au Maroc : réhabiliter la religion/l’idéologie dans l’analyse de l’islamisme by Haoues Seniguer, Hassan Zouaoui

“…However this terminology is very problematic as it reifies an activist use. Indeed, there is some confusion between two different processes: on the one hand, the legalism of the Islamists who take part in Institutions; and on the other hand, their renunciation to moral crusades in the political sphere. …”
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Du « je » au « nous ». Le Théâtre de l’opprimé comme grammaire d’une parole collective by Sophie Coudray

“…The Theatre of the Oppressed appears as a theatrical pedagogy dedicated to “non-actors” – oppressed, vulnerable subjects – whose openly activist purpose implies the construction of a collective political subject. …”
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Francoféminisme en Tunisie : pratiques langagières et enjeux institutionnels by Mariem Guellouz, Sélima Kebaïli

“…Based on historical archives and ethnographic fieldwork in Tunisia, the article analyses language ideologies that articulate the practice of the French language and modernity as well as the processes that has participated to shape the institutional and activist feminist field in Tunisia. and proposes the term francofeminism to characterize this process.…”
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Life on board ship and cultural intimacy. Notes from the Central Mediterranean by Jasmine Iozzelli

“…When they meet aboard seagoing vessels, these currents construct a highly diverse range of shared spaces.Exploring both the macro-structure and some of the micro-practices that constitute these spaces, I attempt to point up some of the contradictions – between humanitarian logic and activist demands, between efficiency and processes of dehumanization, between formal rationality and the unpredictability of events – that arise in the construction of a sense of belonging on board a large SAR ship.…”
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Tolérance et transgressivité : le jeu à somme nulle des gauchistes et des islamistes tunisiens by Michaël Béchir Ayari

“…Moreover, in mid 2000s, the release of jailed Ennhada militants and the return of exiled activists suggest that a protest cycle of a new kind is under way. …”
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Unmasking Currents: Thinking Power and War with Foucault and the Black Panthers by Jason Demers

“…Rather than pursuing claims about causal-chronological influence, the article teases out undercurrents—Nietzsche, Mao, Clausewitz, and revolutionary activist projects—that act as sites of confluence with respect to power and war. …”
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Robert Lafont, candidat des « minorités nationales » à l’élection présidentielle de 1974 by Damien Canavate

“…This article explores the disqualified candidacy of Occitan activist and intellectual Robert Lafont in the 1974 French presidential election within the broader context of regionalist claims in post-1968 France. …”
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La Greta Thunberg du Le grand livre du climat by Ludovic Aubin, Renaud Hétier, Cécile Redondo, Nathanaël Wallenhorst

“…Our study focuses on Greta Thunberg and her Great Climate Book, with a view to identifying the key principles that inspire democratic socialisation in and through education. This contemporary activist is involved in media coverage of the climate and ecological cause, and embodies a message that concerns the transmission of biogeophysical scientific knowledge, and a political and media commitment to achieving socio-political breakthroughs that will guarantee the sustainability of human life in society in the Anthropocene epoch. …”
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C’est la cité ! by Philippe Woloszyn, Paul Girard

“…This implementation of an activist stance is analysed from the perspective of the spatial language adopted by the camera within the landscape of the Clairière des Aubiers, a large Bordeaux housing project where the video clip was filmed. …”
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Gender Revolution in a Malthusian Utopia: Harriet Martineau’s world of Garveloch by Catherine Heyrendt-Sherman

“…Undeterred by her detractors, Martineau carried on as a pioneer and political activist.…”
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Acts of Exposure: Reckoning with Representations of HIV and Sexual Identity in Morocco by Anne M. Montgomery, Abderrahim El Habachi

“…This article presents a hybrid, co-authored exchange between an American academic and scholar of Morocco, Anne Montgomery, and a Moroccan writer and activist, Abderrahim El Habachi. It is a multi-textual work that was produced through an experimental, collaborative method. …”
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Dr. Jonas Basanavičius (1851–1927) and his nervous disease by A. Ulytė, E. Sakalauskaitė-Juodeikienė

“… Doctor Jonas Basanavičius (1851–1927) was the patriarch of the Lithuanian nation, activist in the Lithuanian national revival, a physician, politician, scholar, and editor of the first Lithuanian-language newspaper Auszra. …”
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Les archives, un outil dans la construction d’un rapport de force féministe : l’exemple d’un groupe féministe et syndical by Maëva Ballon, Flaz Torres

“…Finally, the process of production of our group's records constitutes in itself a feminist practice.Through examples of activist objects, digital tools and formats we illustrate the construction of a singular feminist power struggle. …”
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Human-Bird Conflicts and Management Issues: A Case Study of Birds at Uppalapadu Lake, Andhra Pradesh, India by P. Rama Chandra Prasad, J. Asha Kumari, Manju Mathew, Rosina Thomas

“…The study highlights the ways the local community, Forest Department, activist groups and other organizations participate in protecting the birds from harm. …”
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Inji Efflatoun entre le pinceau et la plume : « L’exposition de la révolutionnaire » by Nadine Atallah

“…A leading figure in modern Egyptian art, Efflatoun made a name for herself with her dual career as a painter and Marxist, feminist and anti-colonialist activist. While pursuing her artistic training, she organised her exhibition against the backdrop of the Suez Crisis, which heralded the 23 July Revolution and accelerated the struggles for national independence. …”
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Book Review: Decolonizing the Mind (by Sandew Hira) by Patrick Delices

“…This non-Westernised narrative is deeply discussed in Decolonizing the Mind : A Guide to Decolonial Theory and Practice by decolonial scholar, economist, historian and activist Sandew Hira. The aim of Hira’s Decolonizing the Mind is to deeply engage decolonial theory and practice as an alternative to the prominent thinking of the West as illuminated in liberalism and Marxism. …”
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Luderen, akademikeren og manifestet: by Kira Skovbo Moser

“…Since the first wave of feminism, the manifesto genre has been used as an activist tool by feminists in the West. However, the genre, being traditionally both masculine and masculinist, is causing resistance when adapted by feminist agendas. …”
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Getting into the weeds by Anna Marchessault

“…Shiva is an inspiring scholar and activist with expertise in food sovereignty, ecofeminism, and commoning. …”
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