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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Protest movements"”.
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Protest Movements of the 1960s - 1970s in Latin America and the United States
… effects on class struggle, national independence movements and cultural developments, this project begins by summarizing and engaging scholarship that establishes essential political theories and their requisite vocabularies. Secondly, the project highlights historical social and cultural …
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Protest movements and the security policy of the Federal Republic of Germany since 1950
… presents an analysis of selected West German protest movements from the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany in 19^9 to the present. The purpose is to test the hypothesis that public opposition to security policies of the Federal Republic of Germany, as a continuing process, has enjoyed …
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Contention under Consociationalism: The Selection of Strategies by Postethnic Protest Movements in Lebanon and Bosnia and Herzegovina
… asks: Under which conditions do postethnic protest movements select their strategies in consociational systems? To provide a nuanced answer, a comparison is conducted between the 2014 Social Uprising in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the 2019 October Uprising in Lebanon. Through forty interviews …
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The revolution will be made public: The effects of international actors on protest movements in hybrid and authoritarian regimes today
… of English-language signs held by political protesters in autocracies throughout the world, signaling activists’ desire to capture the attention and interest of a global audience. Innovations in telecommunications make it easier than ever before for people in one country to know what actors …
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Meaningful Witnessing in the United States, India & New Zealand: The Possibility Space for Digital Video Within Human Rights, Protest Movements and Activist Practices
… in human rights, social justice issues and protest movements through a number of select case studies in the United States, India and New Zealand. This project analyzes and critiques the formation of digital video practices through the lens of Manuel DeLanda’s interpretation of assemblage …
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“One, two, three, four, we don’t want your fucking war”: The student protest movements at Columbia University and Kent State University during the war in Vietnam
<p>The comparative study of student protests at drastically different universities and the success ofthose protests is significantly lacking from the historical record. The Vietnam era was a pivotal turning point in American university life, during which students across the country pushed for …
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De strijd om inspraak
… in that period. In these decades several movements all over the world were striving for social changes. These protest movements used several forms of actions to give more strength to their demands. Various studies have been made to describe the start and cause of the protest movements in …
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Lawyering from Below: Activist Legal Support in Contemporary Canada and the US
… use of law as a tool by progressive social movements, but far less attention has been paid to the way activists respond to involuntary engagement with law as a result of repression and criminalization. This dissertation explores the legal support infrastructure of grassroots protest …
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Off Beat: Police as Protestors and use of Twitter as a Tactical Online Public Space
… of social media by British police officers to protest, often anonymously, and challenge political influences on policing, which they otherwise could not, through tactical use of social media. It studies British police officers acting as online protestors using Twitter to challenge these …
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New social movements in France and West Germany: their activists and conditions for their development
In this paper, new social movements in France and West Germany are compared in terms of their supporters, and in terms of certain elements of the political and administrative conditions which they are confronting. On the basis of survey data from 1982, specific attributes of supporters of new …
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Leadership, Leaderlessness and Leaderless Groups: The case of the Occupy London Movement
This thesis investigates how ‘leaderless’ social movements are coordinated and sustained by their members. Drawing on an empirical study of the London Occupy protests, it emphasises the socially-constructed nature of ‘leaderlessness’, arguing that the London Occupy movement can be understood as an …
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Affective attunement and counter-power affordances of Twitter to the 2020 #EndSARS protests in Nigeria
… affordances of Twitter during the 2020 #EndSARS protests in Nigeria. Drawing on qualitative data collected from Twitter during the protests, the study examined the ways in which Twitter facilitated affective attunement - the ability of Twitter users to attune to each other's emotions - in …
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Between Fields and Cities: The Politics of Land Use Changes in Punjab, India
… and economic factors including high land prices, protest movements, emigration, fiscal policies, geography, and competition with other states. In contrast to the rest of the state, Ludhiana has successfully attracted industrial growth, illustrating how cities that urbanized earlier follow a …
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Towards a Poetics of the Digital Protest Text: Insights from the #BlackLivesMatter Movement (2013-) and Anti-CAA and Anti-NRC Protests (2019-2020)
With the rise of digital activism in the global protest cycle, it is imperative to formulate theoretical frameworks, or a poetics, of the role digital texts play in creating, sustaining, and outliving protest. For all its ubiquitous use, the form has been slippery to conceptualize; its literary …
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Why is there no Green Party in America?: Environmental politics and environmental consciousness in the United States and West Germany
… the New Environmental Paradigm, and support for protest movements. The results deliver strong support for the hypothesis. The electoral resources for an American Green Party are weak.
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From Brazil to Britain: the vicissitudes of participatory budgeting: the importance of context
… practice, originating in the demands of social movements in Brazil, came to fit within the prevailing neoliberal orthodoxy? It explores changes within both neoliberalism and the practice of Participatory Budgeting (PB) itself. It examines PB’s Brazilian origins and the ways in which the process, …
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The repudiation movement : a study of the Maori land protest movement in Hawkes Bay in the 1870's : a thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History at Massey University.
The Repudiation Movement was a Maori land protest organization that aroused suspicion and fear in the minds of Europeans in Hawkes Bay in the 1870's. It was a movement that adopted European methods and institutions as its means for solving land grievances and was led by influential Chiefs and by …
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New social movements, Claus Offe, and environmental groups in British Columbia
… Social Movement Theory characterizes post 1960's protest movements such as the peace, environment and women's movement as being distinctively different from older movements such as the workers movement. The salient differences are in the social bases from which the movements draw their …
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Populism as resonance machine: Affect, the Sweden Democrats, and the 2018 Swedish General Election
… by rising support for insurgent populist movements that reject the status quo. Despite widespread scholarly interest, however, the operative logics of populism as an apparatus of affective production and capture have been overlooked. Taking insights from the affective and more-than-human …
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The sovereignty of the African districts of the African Methodist Episcopal Church :a historical assessment
… investigates the reasons for the five secession movements that took place in the 15th and 19th Districts of the AME Church in 1899, 1904, 1908, 1980 and 1998. The research problem investigated in this thesis is therefore one of a historical reconstruction, namely to identify, describe and assess …
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