139 8 Rethinking Mediation During Contested Regime Transformation and Episodes of Mobilization Elisa Tarnaala Introduction Mediation scholarship focusing on international diplomacy and formal processes has paid little attention to the interplay between contested political processes at regime level and the collective action of ordinary people in demonstrations, protests and revolutions. Yet both regime type and previous patterns of mobilization and protest impact the space for manoeuvre in mediation. Structural conditions such as political institutions
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). What do these practices of public service reform look like? How do public service providers make decisions about changes to local services? What are the key sources of knowledge and insight that they draw upon? Both the knowledge mobilisation literature and the deliberative and interpretive fields of policy analysis highlight the importance of integrating different forms of evidence and knowledge, but they remain silent on the types of knowledge that are needed for public service reform. Flyvbjerg (2001) and more recently Ward (2017) , have attempted to fill
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63 Part Two Research Justice: Strategies for community mobilization In their chapter, ‘The socio-psychological stress of “justice denied”: the Alan Crotzer story,’ co-authors Akeem Ray and Phyllis Gray not only examine strategies for community mobilization and self-awareness using Research Justice as a tool, but also explore how Alan Crotzer’s wrongful conviction has touched the lives of many, including students in Florida. In fact, his story and speeches have raised the consciousness of college students who have innovatively taken it upon
opportunity for change. The second part of the chapter explores civil society as a space for agency and mobilisation. Understanding strategic logics of transformation assists us in identifying barriers to effective transformation and inclusive participation in collective action. The Irish case study focuses on power and recent transformative moments in Ireland. Power and transformation Structure and agency The chilling reality of the structural power of markets and corporations need not deny hope in collective agency. However, discussions about transformation need
mobilization, the coalition’s one successful activity was on 1 August, a ‘Day of Working-Class Action’ coordinated by the Simunye Workers’ Forum, which was outside the coalition, as well as the Workers’ Rights WG and COWG, which were affiliated. The event was remarkable for inspiring protests in rural areas, many organized by low-paid farm labourers, community health workers and participants in the government’s Extended Public Works Programme. There were about 40 protests in total. Community Organizing Working Group The COWG organizes in townships and informal
201 Evidence & Policy • vol 13 • no 2 • 201–23 • © Policy Press 2017 • #EVPOL Print ISSN 1744 2648 • Online ISSN 1744 2656 • https://doi.org/10.1332/174426416X14534671325644 Accepted for publication 02 December 2015 • First published online 27 January 2016 Missing in action? The role of the knowledge mobilisation literature in developing knowledge mobilisation practices Alison Powell, aep2@st-andrews.ac.uk Huw Davies, hd@st-andrews.ac.uk Sandra Nutley, smn@st-andrews.ac.uk University of St Andrews, UK Despite a burgeoning literature and the development of
165 NINE Knowledge mobilisation in education in south africa Johan Muller and Ursula Hoadley, University of Cape Town introduction In this chapter we consider both the notion of knowledge mobilisation and practices associated with it in the South African context. The chapter begins by providing an overview of the education system in South Africa, including the higher education policy and funding context. We then go on to trace the evolution of the concept of community engagement (the more common term denoting knowledge mobilisation in South Africa). We
