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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Contentious politics"”.
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Contentious politics and the making of Egyptian public spaces
… and re-define public spaces, particularly in contentious moments, and how public spaces constitute political identities and influence their political choices. Through making use of the Egyptian case study, I identified three different patterns of constituting public spaces: monopolisation, …
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Violence After Victory: Explaining Variation in State Repression Following Contentious Politics
<p>If conflict onset leads to increases in human rights abuse, how can these abuses be curbed once conflicts have ended? To answer this question, researchers have traditionally focused on a country’s regime type and leaders’ incentive structures. This is insufficient, I argue, because many regimes …
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“Whose Streets? Our Streets!”: Social Memory and Contentious Politics in a Democracy
… Despite globalization and mobile technologies, contentious politics largely continue to take shape through the performances, narratives, and materialities of the street. That is, contentious politics take on particular place characteristics and thus must be studied in diverse places. This …
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Contentious Politics in the Arab Middle East: Jordanian Salafism and the Social Appropriation of Tradition
… intellectuals seem to play a relevant role in contentious politics, yet this role is still undertheorized. In this project, I analyze this question in the context of contemporary Arab Salafism, a particularly literal interpretation of Sunni Islam. I seek to unpack the processes by which …
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Bringing the visual into focus: Street art and contentious politics in Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina
… of visual tools and aesthetic experience in contentious politics. Consequently, political action is often described and understood in ways that are reductive and distorted. This dissertation brings together a range of insights from art and aesthetics, communications and cultural studies in …
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Empowering women activists : creating a monster : the contentious politics of gender within social justice activism
This Master's Research Project has sought to investigate the discursive space for 'gender struggles' within contemporary South African class based social justice activism. It has done so in the form of a qualitative case study, analysing particular 'gender' interventions designed by a left-wing …
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From social movements to contentious politics a comparative critical literature review across the U.S. and China
… review on the studies of social movements and contentious politics in the U.S. and China. Thanks to theories of contentious politics, we can analyze the studies of America’s social movements and China’s collective actions in the same “frame.” By making a comparison, this thesis tries to …
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Class Based Contestations in Neoliberal France
… necessity of class struggle for understanding contentious politics.</p>
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Corporate-Community Mining Conflicts in Guatemala: Unsettling Hegemonic Power Relations in Environmental Struggles
… understood as part of emergent forms of scalar politics wherein different actors struggle to (re)consolidate power and authority in the hands of competing groups. The complex ways in which corporate-elite-government-military networks shape political actions in environmental conflicts intersects …
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The Role of ICTs in Social Movements: The Case of the Honduran National Front Against the 2009 Coup
… political and ICT context. </p> <p>Guided by the Contentious Politics Model (CPM) asked an overarching research question: What is the role of Information and Communication Technologies in the emergence and development of the National Front Against the Coup?</p> <p>I also asked three second-level …
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Media Framings of Pussy Riot
… group evolve from street performers engaging in contentious politics to internationally known activists leading the charge for prison reform in Russia and other types of social reform.
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Contentious Activities and Party-State Responses in Contemporary China -- Investigating China’s Democratisation during its Modernisation
… changing culture and value system, remarkable contentious activities have been launched by a wide range of social actors striving for their rights and interests. Underneath the dynamic character of contentions in China, this research will try to test the normative and ethical presumption that …
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Contaminated lands? Local dynamics of contentious mobilization around far-right politics
… mobilization responded to this wave with diverse contentious strategies. However, amid extensive research in electoral politics, the conflict around far-right politics is still scarcely explored within the framework of contentious politics. The thesis aims to address this gap by providing a …
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When Movements Fail: Drug Policy and Popular Participation in Brazil
… these issues, I examine the largely frustrated, contentious efforts to reform policies that govern illicit drugs in Brazil, which – following the activists themselves – I collectively call the anti-prohibitionist movement. Anti-prohibitionism challenges the War on Drugs, pointing out its …
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The Politics of Protest and State Repression in Authoritarian Regimes
… literature has documented rich materials on contentious politics; however, as Tilly, Tarrow, and McAdam (2001) indicated in their seminal work, these traditional approaches work better to explain contention in democracies but less well when it comes to explaining protests in nondemocratic …
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Government in an English provincial town: the Corporation of Ipswich, 1720-95
… provincial towns, governance and politics under the municipal corporation has received little recent attention. For the most part, a conventional view prevails holding that the corporations were increasingly corrupt, under-resourced and institutionally obsolete. The rise of …
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Politics of Space in Ankara: The Spatial Triad as Mobilization and Demobilization
… production to situate them within theories of contentious politics. The objective is to understand how architects can create and ethical framework by analyzing the spatial configuration of an Ankara gecekondu called Zafertepe as it relates to political mobilization, participation, and …
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State, Dissidents, and Contention: Iran, 1979-2010
… I engage theories of social movements and contentious politics in order to examine the emergence, development, and likely outcomes of popular contention in contemporary Iran. My study is the first project of its kind to focus on elite factionalism and its impact on popular mobilization in …
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Transnational Activism for Migrant Workers: Examining the Struggles for Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
… workers in Hong Kong was a product of the contentious politics in the homeland where the Filipino activists who spearheaded the founding of the NGOs in the territory were active in social justice issues in the home country. The political action in Hong Kong is likewise linked to the …
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Protest literacies : texts and practices contesting military policing and mega-events in Rio de Janeiro
During the mid to late 2000s, a period of contentious politics emerged in the city of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) concerning social movement responses to so-called ‘mega-events’ due to be hosted there – e.g. the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. Central to contentions were newly …
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