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History is filled with stories of business magnates taking big financial risks on the next big sports sensation. But emerging sports are more like social movements than business enterprises.
Crowdfunding has become a go-to means of raising money for political causes, but the monetary show of support can cause opponents to double down on their opposition.
Frustrated by the inability to get good internet, a rural village decided to dig a superfast connection in themselves.
Research and investigative journalism call into question the authenticity of – and actual public support for – recent protests demanding governments lift lockdowns and ‘reopen’ the US economy.
A community effort is creating do-it-yourself hand-washing stations for the homeless population in Los Angeles.
GetUp has notched many political victories since launching in 2005. Now, independents and conservatives are trying to replicate its approach to grassroots political participation.
In a country where less-than-democratic elites wield substantial power, bottom-up politics is still alive and well.
Self-organisation initiatives taken by slum residents across Africa can help urban development.
Rationality doesn’t bring people together to make change happen – but powerful stories do.
Oxfam’s efforts to find solutions to the world’s inequalities are welcome but its wrongful use of “human economy” and repackaging it as a concept from high up might do more harm than good.
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Research Fellow, Governance Team, Institute of Development Studies
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Post Doctoral Fellow (Development Economist), Human Economy Programme, University of Pretoria
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Research Active Lecturer, Discipline of Psychology, Charles Darwin University, Charles Darwin University
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Research fellow, University of Southern Queensland
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Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburg and Visiting Associate Professor, The University of Osaka, University of Pittsburgh
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University Lecturer, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Executive Fellow in Digital Security, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Honorary lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UNSW
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Ph.D. student in the Department of Children, Youth and Families, USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, University of Southern California
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Professor of Sociology, West Virginia University
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Ph.D. student in Communication, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Professor of Communication and Spatial Sciences, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Assistant Professor of History, Swarthmore College