Reposted by: Eugene McCann
Today we're launching a new, powerful tool for public accountability created by @rorywh.bsky.social.
Civic Searchlight compiles hundreds of municipalities' public meetings and makes them searchable for the first time. It's free to use and we hope you journalists and researchers put it to work.
Civic Searchlight compiles hundreds of municipalities' public meetings and makes them searchable for the first time. It's free to use and we hope you journalists and researchers put it to work.
Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation
Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...
www.nationalobserver.com
Interesting. "Women, ppl of color, & LGBQ scholars ... write more about the ppl, resources, & conditions that made their books possible. So too, do younger scholars & those who’s parents have graduate degrees." Given my identity, my acknowledgements should be monosyllabic, then. But I'm long-winded.
I'm excited to share my new paper with a former student, Tommy Smith. "'This Work Would Not Have Been Possible without...': The Length of Acknowledgments in Sociology Books"
Open Access in @sociusjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/2378...
Open Access in @sociusjournal.bsky.social : doi.org/10.1177/2378...
Reposted by: Eugene McCann, Loretta Lees
Great news!!
Louisville Metro is finally implementing its Anti-Displacement Commission & Assessment Tool!
Well done PUSH Louisville & Jecorey Arthur for keeping pressure on the city, and Louisville Tenants Union for launching the campaign!!
www.lpm.org/news/2025-10...
Louisville Metro is finally implementing its Anti-Displacement Commission & Assessment Tool!
Well done PUSH Louisville & Jecorey Arthur for keeping pressure on the city, and Louisville Tenants Union for launching the campaign!!
www.lpm.org/news/2025-10...
Louisville's Anti-Displacement Commission finally gets off the ground
The Anti-Displacement Commission will track housing developments that receive city resources to protect residents from gentrification.
www.lpm.org
At the Vancouver Chinatown People's Open House against 105 Keefer/570 Columbia & for a People's Vision for Chinatown.
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For @thewalrus.ca, I wrote about the state of reconciliation 10 years after the final report of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission. thewalrus.ca/trc-introduc...
The Stark Reality Ten Years after the Truth and Reconciliation Report | The Walrus
“We have to wonder: should we just abandon ‘reconciliation’ altogether?”
thewalrus.ca
Reposted by: Eugene McCann
PLEASE: Short notice, but we have til the end of today to email City Hall: Beedie is back trying to develop #105Keefer & it's even worse. (Govt should've bought this land, given the destruction it has already imposed on Chinatown) savechinatownyvr.substack.com/p/last-day-g... #vanpoli #bcpoli
LAST DAY: Get your NO to Beedie counted by the City
Comment today to make sure your opposition to 105 Keefer / 570 Columbia is registered on the City's report
savechinatownyvr.substack.com
Yeah I know. They've gotten away with sitting on it for years. Ridiculous.
Holborn's Little Mountain development in #Vancouver. "A Generational Masterplan," apparently. 'Generational' cuz it took, like, a generation to get round to building it? #vanre #vanpoli
Uses brief examples from the drug #harmreduction social movement, specifically #overdose prevention & #SCSs, to illustrate the argument, but contends that a wide range of social movements can be understood through "moving ideas." 6/6
Outlines five paths toward overcoming the policy mobilities approach’s relative inattention to counter-hegemonic activism & contentious politics: situated knowledge on-the-move; persuasive storytelling; encounters in “truth-spots”; temporalities of activism; & “futuring” in policy change. 5/6
... 2) political ideas move people to critique dominant ideologies & engage in activism that challenges, rethinks, & reworks political orthodoxies. 4/6
Introduces the term “moving ideas” as a framing with two connotations: 1) the political efficacy of ideas is related to their spatialities—how & with what effects they move from place to place & are embedded in places; ... 3/6
Specifically argues that the political scope of policy mobilities scholarship can be enlarged to include not only the politics of hegemonic policy-making but also the counter-hegemonic activism, ideation, & contentious politics through which social movements seek to change hegemonic policy. 2/6
by Eugene McCann — Reposted by: Eugene McCann
New Open Access paper: "Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach" in @proghumgeog.bsky.social. Arguing that the #policymobilities & #socialmovements literatures can be combined to study counter-hegemonic activism. 1/6
tinyurl.com/88xmursz
tinyurl.com/88xmursz
Moving ideas: An agenda for expanding the political scope of the policy mobilities approach - Eugene McCann, 2025
This paper addresses the policy mobilities approach’s relative inattention to counter-hegemonic activism and contentious politics. It outlines one way to expand...
tinyurl.com
Uses brief examples from the drug #harmreduction social movement, specifically #overdose prevention & #SCSs to illustrate the argument, but contends that a wide range of social movements can be understood through "moving ideas." 6/6
Outlines five paths toward overcoming the policy mobilities approach’s relative inattention to counter-hegemonic activism & contentious politics: situated knowledge on-the-move; persuasive storytelling; encounters in “truth-spots”; temporalities of activism; & “futuring” in policy change. 5/6
... 2) political ideas move people to critique dominant ideologies & engage in activism that challenges, rethinks, & reworks political orthodoxies. 4/6
Introduces the term “moving ideas” as a framing with two connotations: 1) the political efficacy of ideas is related to their spatialities—how & with what effects they move from place to place & are embedded in places; ... 3/6
Specifically argues that the political scope of policy mobilities scholarship can be enlarged to include not only the politics of hegemonic policy-making but also the counter-hegemonic activism, ideation, & contentious politics through which social movements seek to change hegemonic policy. 2/6
The First Peoples’ Gathering House at SFU looking lovely in the autumn sunshine. www.sfu.ca/about/truth-...
Reposted by: Eugene McCann, Rebecca Solnit
Protests, mass meetups, conferences—a youth-led movement is reclaiming the Luddite mantle, rejecting a future dominated by Silicon Valley companies, toxic apps, and generative AI.
This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing.
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...
This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing.
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...
The Luddite Renaissance is in full swing
This fall, the new luddites are rising
www.bloodinthemachine.com
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A group of dedicated educators in Victoria, BC have launched a e-petition calling on the federal government to increase post-secondary funding and address the lack of affordable student housing in Canada.
Please take a moment today to sign and share:
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Please take a moment today to sign and share:
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-6522 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
