新作坊

新作坊 Humanity Innovation and Social Practice

What counts as activism?: the role of individuals in creating change

摘要:

Abrahams's argument connects with other feminist scholarship that has broadened concepts of political action and activism by extending the "public sphere" to encompass household and social relations and by highlighting the role of work (often, but not always, waged labor) in stimulating people's awareness of social problems and motivation to address them (e.g., Mansbridge 1990; Naples 1992; Ryan 1992; Staeheli and Cope 1994; Staeheli and Clarke 2003).