-based violence (GBV), our participatory visual research project with these girls developed into a policy-focused intervention and advocacy campaign on EFM. At our first workshop in February 2017, the SIFs identified EFM as a key issue affecting the safety and
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Negotiating Girl-led Advocacy
Addressing Early and Forced Marriage in South Africa
Sadiyya Haffejee, Astrid Treffry-Goatley, Lisa Wiebesiek, and Nkonzo Mkhize
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Jun 2020
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- Research Article
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- 18–34 (17 total)
Being a Community Health Worker Means Advocating
Participation, Perceptions, and Challenges in Advocacy
Ryan I. Logan
Advocacy is perhaps the most unique component of the community health worker (CHW) model. The American Public Health Association (APHA 2018) defines a CHW as ‘a frontline public health worker who is a trusted member of and/or has an unusually
In Anthropology in Action
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- 01 Jun 2019
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- Research Article
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- 9–18 (10 total)
Humanity’s Subtensions
Culture Theory in US Death Penalty Mitigation
Jesse Cheng
-knit circle of practitioners who were instrumental in creating formal advocacy guidelines that now comprise the standard of care for effective defense advocacy in death penalty cases. 1 Capital defenders across the country regard these advocates as
Neglected Tropical Diseases
Creating a New Disease Grouping
Samantha Vanderslott
structures. While authors have been concerned with disease classification for diagnostic or statistical purposes, this article is concerned with the politics of classification of the NTD grouping as an advocacy category. What the forming of this diseases
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- Research Article
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- 78–110 (33 total)
Cannabis Culture on Display
Deviant Heritage Comes Out of the Shadows
Rachel F. Giraudo
culture, and how are newer advocates, who seize upon that momentum, expanding on those efforts? I address the work of activists, museums, and advocacy groups in highlighting the multiple dimensions of prohibition-era cannabis use and communities. This
Social Sciences and the Cultural Sector in England
A Commentary on the Literature
Sara Selwood
were specified by the Departmental Business Plans introduced by the 2010 Conservative government ( Talbot 2017 ). If anything, performance management accounts were superseded by even more prominent advocacy. Marshaling the necessary arguments depended
Helga A. Welsh
Characterized by a highly complex and segmented decision-making structure and strong conventions and values, German higher education was long considered impervious to significant change. In recent years, several initiatives demonstrate both the resistance to, and prospects for, profound reforms. This article focuses on two such endeavors: the establishment of junior professorships and the introduction of general tuition fees. Both policies aim to break ironclad traditions—in the first case, the entry qualification for professorships; in the second, the principle of free education. The discourse surrounding the establishment of these initiatives has emphasized performance and competition. The new advocacy coalitions and their opponents, however, use different frames to interpret these terms. The battle of ideas and policies regarding a reconfigured academic hierarchy has been shaped by stakeholders in the scientific community, with political actors taking a secondary role. On the other hand, the discourse surrounding the introduction of tuition fees reverses this order, with political actors taking the prominent role. Discourse patterns and involvement of political parties matter. The analysis reveals the competing rhetorical and policy frames that support policy diversity. Policy change adds to, rather than eliminates, existing structures.
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Mar 2009
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- Research Article
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- 1–23 (22 total)
Lyn Mikel Brown
Lyn Mikel Brown gives an autobiographical account of her shift in focus from studying girls and theorizing girls and girlhood to working as an activist and advocate for and with girls. Specifically she describes the Maine-based nonprofit organization called Hardy Girls Healthy Women (www.hghw.org) that she founded in 2000. She situates her current praxis historically in the light of her groundbreaking work with Carol Gilligan at the Harvard Project on Women's Psychology and Girls' Development in the 1980s and early 1990s. This work did indeed put the "girls" into Girls' Studies.
Girltopia
Girl Scouts and the Leadership Development of Girls
Angela High-Pippert
Girl Scouts of the USA is the largest organization for girls in the world, with 2.8 million members and more than 50 million American women as alumnae since the first troop was organized in 1912. Although the organization's mission statement has evolved over the years, Girl Scouts has always been focused on training girls to be responsible and resourceful citizens, and, for the past ten years, there has been a renewed focus on leadership development and the empowerment of girls. Through content analysis of the National Leadership Journey books for each program level of Girl Scouting, I explore three specific themes that are emphasized in this new curriculum. Since National Leadership Journey books are now part of the Girl Scout experience from elementary to high school, these messages concerning leadership development could have an impact on millions of girls across the United States.
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Jun 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 137–152 (16 total)
Ana Letunić
Abstract
This article explores the potentials of performing arts curation to challenge current European cultural policies. It opens with a brief comparison of the genealogy of the curator in the visual and performing arts. Suzana Milevska's concept of “curatorial agency” and contemporary understandings of the “curator as an intermediary” serve to highlight the discrepancies between the socio-political conditions of production and circulation in the two fields. The second part of the article draws on interviews with five performing arts curators from independent organizations active within European project networks to further examine the implications of curating as a mediating cultural-political practice. Finally, in a context where cultural policies increasingly support market-oriented cultural actors, it calls for a stronger accountability of the performing arts curator in the negotiation of values between the artistic community, audiences, and policymakers.