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The Civil Sphere
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This article is published in Asian Journal of Social Science.The article was published on 2008-01-01. It has received 318 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Asian studies.read more
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Envisioning Real Utopias
TL;DR: Wright's "Envisioning Real Utopias" as mentioned in this paper is a comprehensive assault on the quietism of contemporary social theory and aims to put the social back into socialism, laying the foundations for a set of concrete, emancipatory alternatives to the capitalist system.
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Forage for thought: Mobilizing codes in the movement for grass-fed meat and dairy products
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use qualitative data on the grassroots coalition movement that has spurred a market for grass-fed meat and dairy products in the United States since the early 1990s, and show that the movement's participants mobilized broad cultural codes and these codes motivated producers to enter and persist in a nascent market, shaped their choices about production and exchange technologies, enabled a collective identity, and formed the basis of the products' exchange value.
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From Environmental Campaigns to Advancing the Public Dialog: Environmental Communication for Civic Engagement
TL;DR: The authors examines the claims of environmental identity campaigns regarding the issue of climate change and argues that while this approach may offer short term advantages, it is most likely incapable of developing the large scale mobilization necessary to enact the massive social and economic changes necessary to address global warming.
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Media and the Arab uprisings of 2011: Research notes:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the broader, overlapping and interpenetrating ways in which media systems and communication networks have complexly conditioned and facilitated these remarkable historical events and communicated them around the world.
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Global Civil Society
TL;DR: In this article, a concrete utopia is a model of practical and institutional arrangements that does not currently exist, but should be politically possible to achieve, and feasible as an alternative way of organizing social practices and relations.
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Envisioning Real Utopias
TL;DR: Wright's "Envisioning Real Utopias" as mentioned in this paper is a comprehensive assault on the quietism of contemporary social theory and aims to put the social back into socialism, laying the foundations for a set of concrete, emancipatory alternatives to the capitalist system.
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Forage for thought: Mobilizing codes in the movement for grass-fed meat and dairy products
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use qualitative data on the grassroots coalition movement that has spurred a market for grass-fed meat and dairy products in the United States since the early 1990s, and show that the movement's participants mobilized broad cultural codes and these codes motivated producers to enter and persist in a nascent market, shaped their choices about production and exchange technologies, enabled a collective identity, and formed the basis of the products' exchange value.
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From Environmental Campaigns to Advancing the Public Dialog: Environmental Communication for Civic Engagement
TL;DR: The authors examines the claims of environmental identity campaigns regarding the issue of climate change and argues that while this approach may offer short term advantages, it is most likely incapable of developing the large scale mobilization necessary to enact the massive social and economic changes necessary to address global warming.
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Media and the Arab uprisings of 2011: Research notes:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the broader, overlapping and interpenetrating ways in which media systems and communication networks have complexly conditioned and facilitated these remarkable historical events and communicated them around the world.
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Global Civil Society
TL;DR: In this article, a concrete utopia is a model of practical and institutional arrangements that does not currently exist, but should be politically possible to achieve, and feasible as an alternative way of organizing social practices and relations.