Buying an activist identity: reproducing class through social movement philanthropy
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An analysis of the Funding Exchange's Haymarket People's Fund and Crossroads Fund reveals that social movement funders' attempts to assign the role of activist to donors only serves to emphasize the donors' elite class and racial positions. In the Crossroads Fund, an effort is made to convert donors into activists by including them in the grant-making process. This is aimed at creating a collective identity for donors and community organizers. However, this strategy only forces community organizers to defer to donors and replicates the latter's class and race privilege within the group.
Publication Name: Sociological Perspectives
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0731-1214
Year: 1998
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Democracy as an antisystemic movement in Taiwan, Hongkong, and China: a world systems analysis
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A study of the democratic movements in Taiwan, China and Hongkong was conducted to find their relations with Wallerstein's model of antsystemic movements. Results indicate that only China's case was compatible to this model. The notion that third world movements are characterized by anti-Western sentiments are not true for Taiwan and Hongkong. It was also shown that these movements were caused by similar factors (discontentment about the economic and political situation). On the other hand, a variety of reasons spelled success or failure for each one.
Publication Name: Sociological Perspectives
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0731-1214
Year: 1992
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Decline of political control in Chinese universities and the rise of the 1989 Chinese Student Movement
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Political control in Chinese universities was vested on the coalition between students and political workers, whose efforts were concentrated on justifying their ideologies. The emergence of economic reforms opened a new era where state control of universities was no longer feasible, thus resulting to student mobilization. The rise of the 1989 Chinese Student Movement was an aftermath of the easing of political control in universities and stirred more student participation in demonstrations.
Publication Name: Sociological Perspectives
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0731-1214
Year: 1997
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