The Politics of Counter-Expertise on Aerial Spraying: Social Movements Denouncing Pesticide Risk Governance in the Philippines
Lisette J. Nikol,Kees Jansen +1 more
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In various places in the world, aerial spraying of pesticides has met with resistance from local communities potentially endangered by toxic pesticide drift as discussed by the authors, and social movements, and the counter-experiments have been formed.Abstract:
In various places in the world, aerial spraying of pesticides has met with resistance from local communities potentially endangered by toxic pesticide drift. Social movements, and the counter-exper...read more
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With WHO in the Philippines.
TL;DR: A health demonstration center with a well-developed maternal and child health program has been established in a typical rural district with the help of a local government and two international agencies.
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State and Society in the Philippines
TL;DR: In this article, the authors aim to re-consider the narrative of Philippine political development, to attempt a "sustained analysis of state formation over the course of a millennium" and to develop a "framework for understanding Philippine state-society relations over time".
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The Philippine controversy over aerial spraying of pesticides: a timeline of selected developments,1997-2016
Lisette J. Nikol,Kees Jansen +1 more
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Guest Editorial: Conceptualizing Justice and Counter-Expertise
TL;DR: The authors illustrate the ways in which systemic injustices exclude counter-experts from telling their stories and influencing the collective imagination, and four papers and some discussant essays illustrate how counter-expert...
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Agrochemical pesticide production, trade, and hazard: Narrowing the information gap in Colombia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed pesticide hazard in Colombia based on the official toxicity categorization, compared it to more integral international standards, and identified main actions to narrow this information gap.
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Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment
Robert D. Benford,David A. Snow +1 more
TL;DR: The recent proliferation of research on collective action frames and framing processes in relation to social movements indicates that framing processes have come to be regarded, alongside resource mobilization and political opportunity processes, as a central dynamic in understanding the character and course of social movements.
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Dynamics of Contention
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the role of contention in national disintegration and contention in the process of national mobilizations and their application in the context of national democratization, and conclude that "national disintegration, national disentanglement, and contention are the main causes of national disarray".
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Dynamics of Contention
TL;DR: In recent decades the study of social movements, revolution, democratization and other non-routine politics has flourished as mentioned in this paper, and yet research on the topic remains highly fragmented, reflecting the influence of at least three traditional divisions.
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Collective identity and social movements
TL;DR: Collective identity has been treated as an alternative to structurally given interests in accounting for the claims on behalf of which people mobilize, an alternative alternative to selective incentives in understanding why people participate, a alternative to instrumental rationality in explaining what tactical choices activists make, and a complementary alternative to institutional reforms in assessing movements' impacts.