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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Cycle of Contention"”.
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Preventing Violence Against Women: Emerging Practices of Canadian Activism through Social Media
… in attention and participation. In a rising cycle of contention, broad collective action campaigns can appear as a single social movement. This research uses a comparative case study to examine three cases of varying scale through the causal mechanisms of signaling, innovation, and …
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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 …