Do Violent Protests Work?
Khandaker, Tamara, host. Wait, There’s More (podcast). June 2020. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5pcPQnpnQBaxvjRi679Ozx?si=a8ecae5588af48fb. This podcast, recorded at the height of the Black Lives Matter (BLM)…
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Can Protests Save Lives? How ACT UP helped tame the AIDS Crisis
Pettiford, Jordan, host. UnTextbooked (podcast). October 2021. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3IWRSJ0ncakV3YRhSfxLgY?si=44f1cac3cc9d4c11 This podcast explores the grassroots activism which protested the prejudiced…
A Really Good Brown Girl
Dumont, Marilyn. Canada: Brick Books, 1996. Marilyn Dumont’s poetry collection, A Really Good Brown Girl, reads as a journey from internalised shame to pride in Métis identity. The coming-of-age text, a combination of…
Reading Socio-Political and Spatial Dynamics through Graffiti in Conflict-Affect Societies
Vogel, B. et al. Third World Quarterly 41, no. 12 (2020): 1248-68 This article discusses the role of graffiti in conflict-affected areas, and how graffiti can be a lens to view peacebuilding efforts. Through four core…
Failure in a Modern Utopia
Wells, H. G. In A Modern Utopia, 135-174, 1905 This chapter in H.G. Wells’ 1905 book A Modern Utopia discusses the possible failures in a modern Utopia. The book walks a very thin line between fictional and…
Role of Utopia for Design of Future Cities: Utopia in Urban Planning Literature
Ganjavie, A. Studies in Literature and Language 5, no. 3 (2012): 10-19 Ganjavie argues against a Utopian model being applied to cities yet states that there is still a place for utopianism in urban planning. This…
Young People, Situated Learning, and Peace Praxis at The Margins of Everyday Life
Ogunnusi, Michael. 2020. De Montfort University. This thesis thoroughly studies how we approach young people and peace. First, it reviews how peace is generally depicted as the absence of violence or as ‘deficit…
The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Long-Term Human Recovery After Disaster: Reflections from Louisiana Four Years After Hurricane Katrina
Chandra, Anita, and Joie Acosta. 2009. In The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Long-Term Human Recovery After Disaster: Reflections From Louisiana Four Years After Hurricane Katrina, 1st ed., 1–14. RAND…
Public Trust as a Driver of State-Grassroots NGO Collaboration in China
Farid, May, and Chengcheng Song. Journal of Chinese Political Science 25, no. 4 (1 December 2020): 591–613. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11366-020-09691-7. Farid and Song’s article discusses how NGOs in China seek to gain…
Conflict, Peacebuilding and NGO Legitimacy: National NGOs in Sri Lanka
Walton, Oliver. Conflict, Security & Development 8, no. 1 (1 April 2008): 133–67. https://doi.org/10.1080/14678800801977146. In this article, Walton uses three case studies of national NGOs in Sri Lanka to investigate…