“By livestreaming their participation in popular mobilizations and company negotiations, digitally fluent peasant leaders are increasingly claiming control over how they are represented in narratives around extraction.” ow.ly/NwEx50KWb75

“Immigrant rights organizations across the South were building deep networks that would only bolster their resistance during the onslaught of anti-immigrant executive orders during the Trump presidency.” ow.ly/8SGA50L10K1

Focusing on immigrant-serving nonprofits in the US South, Hajar Yazdiha, Ph.D. & @BlancaArRamirez investigate how the rollback of voter protections reshaped immigrant advocacy. ow.ly/mqO850L10OF

In light of the Brazilian state’s retreat during the pandemic, local civic organizations have mobilized to provide aid to low-income neighborhoods, particularly favelas, Anjuli Fahlberg and her coauthors find. ow.ly/54e950L78tz

NEW FORUM | The forum on "Hindutva and the shared scripts of the global right" examines the rise of far-right movements and actors globally with Hindutva and the Hindu right at the center of this inquiry. Read the introduction from Supriya Gandhi (Yale University): tif.ssrc.org/2022/10/12/hin…

In Alabama, immigrant-serving organizations collaborated with other minority groups to provide support to immigrant voters, Hajar Yazdiha, Ph.D. & @BlancaArRamirez found. ow.ly/UTBE50L10RR

“Accustomed to fending for themselves, residents pulled together their resources and activated networks of civic associations to provide food, masks, and other basics.” ow.ly/pY6K50L78y3

We are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2022 Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal Fellowships, in partnership with @FetzerInstitute. Fellows will receive 12 months of support for their research projects. ssrc.org/news/2022/10/1…

The mobilization of civic organizations in favelas in response to Covid-19 exemplify how democracy can be reinvented when government fails to provide support to these communities, explain Anjuli Fahlberg and her coauthors. ow.ly/1cSU50L78TG

🚨New paper out! "The Blind Spots of Sociotechnical Imaginaries: COVID-19 Scepticism in Brazil, the United Kingdom and the United States". 🌎journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09… 🧶 @SAGEPubIndia

“The feeling of abandonment that permeates the history of favelas was so amplified during the pandemic that civic leaders stopped making demands of the state and instead focused on dealing with the crisis themselves.” ow.ly/QxfR50L78XJ

"True success means a public health infrastructure that doesn’t have to claim success from recovering from predictable tragedy" SSRC #MercuryProject grantee Neil Lewis, Jr., PhD, w/Marina Del Rios Rivera, MD, MS & ChomiloMD, examine narratives vs reality of Covid-19 inequalities statnews.com/2022/10/25/cov…

JOB OPPORTUNITY | We are hiring a Program Officer for the Arts Research with Communities of Color program. ssrc.org/about-us/emplo…

This nice article from snopes.com quotes my 2018 SSRC Items article, items.ssrc.org/parameters/on-… WS-DL Group, ODU CS ODU Computer Science #WebArchiveWednesday (ht: Lesley Frew)

Two years after the storming of the US Capitol, we revisit Christina Kulich and Dr. Elizabeth Iams Wellman’s essay unpacking the infamous incident through the lens of democratic erosion scholarship. items.ssrc.org/democracy-pape…

Happy Birthday SSRC !! 🥳

READ Our latest research review on #heritage, #prevention of violent conflict, and #MassAtrocity (ssrc.org/publications/c…). Complements our earlier essay series (items.ssrc.org/category/where…). Thx to our own @bolinresearch!

My short piece on the 2019 Piatúa River protests (Ecuadorian Amazon) is out in SSRC Items. In the essay I focus on the gap between formal rights protections vs. their actual exercise on the ground, & highlight the key role of local Indigenous organizing. tinyurl.com/33w86sd5

.NIH Acting Director Larry Tabak recently said, "We'll have to have the discipline to stop supporting underpowered boutique studies." Read our proposal to NIH Common Fund to ⬆️ the chances of finding replicable policy solutions using “master protocols”: items.ssrc.org/from-the-presi…

We are pleased to release a new version of the #MercuryProject Research Framework. Currently used by 18 teams globally, the framework is designed to help funders, researchers & policymakers coordinate on effective interventions to ⬆️vaccine uptake. items.ssrc.org/from-our-progr… 🧵👇