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‘Shell to Sea’ in Ireland: building social movement potency
In 1996 the Corrib gas field, holding over 1 trillion cubic feet of gas, was discovered by Enterprise Oil 83km off the North West coast of Ireland. Acquired by Shell in 2002,
proposed extraction and processing is now a co-venture between several multinational energy corporations who aim to transport the gas some 90kms via pipeline to an onshore refinery site at Bellanaboy. Although heralded as a significant opportunity for development and employment by Shell and participating companies, local resistance to the proposals, on social and environmental grounds, has been
sustained and effective. Mirroring global conflicts between the petrochemical industry and local people and lifeworlds, this resistance has elicited repressive responses,
including the jailing of local landowners by the Irish state following their resistance to unprecedented compulsory land acquisition orders, and the taking out of a court injunction by Shell in 2005. Drawing on elements of contemporary social movement theory, and on both field research and analysis of campaign documents and media
reports, this paper seeks to describe and reflect on the shape and spread of the social movement that has arisen in response to this development project. We focus on the
‘Shell to Sea’ campaign which has argued for the offshore, as opposed to the onshore, development of the gas field, and has garnered support from many other social movement groups and networks. In particular we consider the use of alternative media in strengthening shared networks of concern and in engaging critically with corporate media representations of both the project and the mobilisation. We
conclude that social movement effectiveness and potency is in large part an outcome of collective and subjective commitments to intense work effort and the sharing of felt
solidarity regarding environmental and social concerns; and we iterate the significance of affective and subjective dimensions of social movement activities alongside more
conventional descriptions of work practices and structuring contexts
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Towards the Sustainable University.
noAll universities have the capacity to embrace, embed or ignore
sustainable development. Looking across the sector and reflecting on
the past seven years and my own institutional experiences, the key
finding is that change for campus and curriculum-based sustainability is
clearly possible but unpredictable.
For many years my own institution (University of Bradford) struggled to
make progress in a number of key aspects of `campus greening¿ including
recycling, green build, energy management, green travel, fair trade etc.
It employed its first environmental manager as recently as 2003. Up until
2007, education for sustainable development (ESD) was largely found
in one small academic department. Now, as this paper describes, it is a
central feature of the learning and teaching strategy for the university
and an overall institutional objective
Building a Birth-to-College Model: Professional Learning Communities
The newest in a planned series of case studies on building a birth-to-college model of education released by the University of Chicago Urban Education Institute (UEI) and the Ounce of Prevention Fund this case study outlines how to create professional learning communities (PLCs) of teachers, administrators and family support staff spanning the early childhood to K-12 spectrum. The intent of the PLCs is to create environments where practitioners take the lead in collaboratively studying and piloting effective, developmentally informed practices that prepare children for college, beginning at birth.This teaching case study is intended to illustrate the evolutionary process of PLC development by UEI and the Ounce and inform the work of others interested in building similar birth-to-college systems to benefit children and families. It is based on interviews of 25 participants in the Birth-to-College Partnership, observations of PLC and other Birth to-College Partnership meetings over the six-month period between January 2012 and June 2012, and a review of Birth-to-College meeting notes and other documents dating back to June 2010
Perspective study: governance for C2C
This perspective study will serve as frame of reference for follow-up activities and exchanges both within and outside the Cradle to Cradle Network (C2CN) and it aims to reflect the current challenges and opportunities associated with implementing a Cradle to Cradle approach. In total, four perspective studies have been written, in the areas on industry, area spatial development, governance and on the build theme
Piensa globalmente, actúa localmente: mapeo de la cultura libre en un sistema mediático hÃbrido
From the nineties, the Internet has been providing new political hybrid action forms. At the
same time, some communities make a disruptive use of technologies aiming to subvert
network power relationships at the current capitalized and centralized cyberspace.
Addressing a collaborative mapping, we identified 290 free culture communities in
Spain. Their characteristics suggest the relevance of offline spaces and local areas to
deliberate, propose and perform political participation towards a neutral, centralised
and free Internet.Desde los años noventa, el ciberespacio ha propuesto formas acción polÃtica hÃbrida.
Asimismo, algunos colectivos realizan un uso disruptivo de las tecnologÃas para subvertir las
relaciones de poder en la Red. Mediante un mapeo colaborativo, identificamos 290 grupos
relacionados con la cultura libre en España. Sus caracterÃsticas sugieren la relevancia de los
espacios offline y de los territorios locales para deliberar y activarse polÃticamente a favor
de un Internet libre
Communication Platform Payload Definition (CPPD) study. Volume 1: Executive summary
This is Volume 1 (Executive Summary) of the Ford Aerospace & Communications Corporation Final Report for the Communication Platform Payload Definition (CPPD) Study program conducted for NASA Lewis Research Center under contract No. NAS3-24235. This report presents the results of the study effort leading to five potential platform payloads to service CONUS and WARC Region 2 traffic demand as projected to the year 2008. The report addresses establishing the data bases, developing service aggregation scenarios, selecting and developing 5 payload concepts, performing detailed definition of the 5 payloads, costing them, identifying critical technology, and finally comparing the payloads with each other and also with non-aggregated equivalent services
Built to Change: Catalytic Capacity-Building in Nonprofit Organizations
Summarizes the results of a broad survey of programs, and business and nonprofit experts, in the field of organizational effectiveness
Academic Aunting: Reimaging Feminist (Wo)Mentoring, Teaching, and Relationships.
In this essay, we explore the potential of aunting relationships for rethinking feminist selves and relationships, especially in academic settings. Relationships between generations of academic feminists have often been described using mother-daughter metaphors. We suggest some limitations to framing teaching and learning across academic generations (e.g., teacher-student) and among colleagues (e.g., peer review of scholarship) using maternal imagery. We then argue that the figure of the aunt offers a powerful trope for negotiating relationships between the waves of academic feminism. Aunts provide a generative alternative to mothering and sisterhood as frameworks for feminist womentoring, teaching, and scholarly reviewing
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