Gordana Rabrenovic
Northeastern University, Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty Member
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This study critically examines how masculinities and intersecting ethnonational and social class identities underscore the social and political agencies of excombatants in Northern Ireland and in the specific context of community-based... more
This study critically examines how masculinities and intersecting ethnonational and social class identities underscore the social and political agencies of excombatants in Northern Ireland and in the specific context of community-based peacebuilding. The authors draw on interviews with female and male leaders in grassroots and governmental organizations, which illustrate how state-led practices of exclusion reshape such intersectional identities and increase the instrumentality of hypermasculinist, pseudo-paramilitary practices in maintaining excombatants’ status and control on neighborhood levels. The research documents how structural dynamics of excombatants’ social class locations and political disaffection help shape their social agencies of “resistance,” underscored by desires for autonomy and recognition, and channeled by ethnogendered scripts rooted in both violent cultures of paramilitarism and nonviolent peacebuilding masculinities. The implications on women of male excomba...
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... they employed in the 19th century. The Remingtons started by first manufacturingguns and later diversified into other products such as typewriters, bicycles, and sawing machines. The community that first prospered around ...
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... they employed in the 19th century. The Remingtons started by first manufacturingguns and later diversified into other products such as typewriters, bicycles, and sawing machines. The community that first prospered around ...
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We study neighborhood associations as local political actors. In our sample, most were formed around a single neighborhood issue, typically involving land-development projects. Their most common opponents include local government and... more
We study neighborhood associations as local political actors. In our sample, most were formed around a single neighborhood issue, typically involving land-development projects. Their most common opponents include local government and business and real estate developers. The well-known growth-machine model is challenged in two ways. First, although growth issues are prominent in the establishment of neighborhood associations, in many cases they are joined or replaced by other kinds of issues (such as public services or safety). Second, local government is perceived as a political ally as often as it is seen as an opponent, and sometimes it is seen as both on the same issue.
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In their several roles as appropriators, redistributors, and providers, nonprofit organizations are involved in complex transactions with organizations in the nonprofit, for-profit, and public sectors. The purpose of this exploratory... more
In their several roles as appropriators, redistributors, and providers, nonprofit organizations are involved in complex transactions with organizations in the nonprofit, for-profit, and public sectors. The purpose of this exploratory investigation, based on a sample of New York State nonprofits, is to explain variation in the extent of intrasector and intersector transactions. Various kinds of prevailing environmental complexities, coupled with
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... Her knowledge of popular culture is extensive and her choice of examples enriches her theoretical discussion ... book is valuable for bringing together a range of different sources about post-war life and media, and for conveying a... more
... Her knowledge of popular culture is extensive and her choice of examples enriches her theoretical discussion ... book is valuable for bringing together a range of different sources about post-war life and media, and for conveying a sense of the profound shifts in gender relations in ...
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... Mary Pardo Creating Community Mexican American Women in Eastside Los Angeles 275 Chapter 13Sharon Bays Work, Politics, and Coalition ... political activism that I came to a broader understanding of feminism, which has in turn... more
... Mary Pardo Creating Community Mexican American Women in Eastside Los Angeles 275 Chapter 13Sharon Bays Work, Politics, and Coalition ... political activism that I came to a broader understanding of feminism, which has in turn enhanced my own political engagement. ...
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... Suggestions by colleagues and friendsChristine Gaily, Michael Biim, Will Holton, Mau-reen Kelleher, Glenn Jacobs, John Portz, Lori Rosenberg, Michelle Eayres, Alexander ... My husband, Branislav Kovacic, read more versions of these... more
... Suggestions by colleagues and friendsChristine Gaily, Michael Biim, Will Holton, Mau-reen Kelleher, Glenn Jacobs, John Portz, Lori Rosenberg, Michelle Eayres, Alexander ... My husband, Branislav Kovacic, read more versions of these chapters than he wishes to remember. ...
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