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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"framing processes"”.
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"Hear Dem Cryin:" Rastafari and Framing Processes in Reggae Music
… social movement literature focuses heavily on framing processes, how movement members portray their grievances to potential sympathizers. Reggae music is the most popular vehicle for the Rastafarians to disperse their world-view. This study explores how reggae music serves certain social …
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The role of referendum and non-referendum mechanisms for state-framing processes
… will in territorial alteration decision-making processes must be continuous. Moreover it is necessary to have responsible institutional and legal frameworks to guarantee that the people’s will is both considered and put into action. Using republican liberal theory, this study will explore the …
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Institutionalizing ethnic demands: framing processes, resource mobilization, and indicators of party formation in Colombian ethnic movements
This thesis examines framing and mobilization processes in Colombian ethnic social movements. I employ systematic process analysis to analyze the question of why indigenous social movement organizations have created viable ethnic party vehicles in electoral politics while black social movement …
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Impact of peace movements on a society immersed in conflict. An analysis of the framing processes of the Basque peace movement.
The Basque conflict has waged since the 1950s in its current form. However, with the arrival of democracy 36 years ago, the Basque Country has been the scene of an intense peace mobilization, dominated by two peace organizations: Gesto por la Paz, a group of community organizations that mobilize to …
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Mobile phone technology : offering an updated approach to understanding the operations of a social movement utilising the TAC as a case study
… opportunities, mobilising structures and framing processes of a typical social movement in a developing country.
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Catching Satisfaction: Personal And Political Framing In The Homebirth Movement
… thesis illuminates the experiences, motives, and framing process of a cohort of homebirthing women in Tucson, Arizona who embody the collective action frames of the national homebirth movement. A model of birth frame construction, alignment and adoption is presented that expands current theory on …
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Interactive Framing Dynamics and Ideological Boundaries in the American Abortion Debate
… I illustrate the interactive nature of strategic framing processes of the American pro-life and pro-choice movements and the process whereby movements borrow and co-opt language and imagery from opposing movements. Illustrated by two case studies of reactive and strategic counterframing in the …
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The New Halal: Islamic Ethical Consumerism in the UK, Germany, and Egypt. A Social Movement Framing Approach
… them into European societies. It draws upon the ‘framing perspective’ within social movement theory to analyse how Islamic campaigners promote the values of environmentalism, animal welfare, and fair trade in the UK, Germany, and Egypt. This dissertation argues that Muslim minorities in Europe …
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Experiential Commensurability and Identity Correspondence: Examining Deaf Culture Movement Collective Identity in the United States
… and values are developments of interactional processes, the current literature remains considerably one sided in its emphasis on this meaning work on the part of elite social movement organizers (Benford 1997). Thus, this research takes for granted the variability of how collective identities …
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Predator Drones and Public Discourse: A Framing Analysis of the Killing of Anwar al-Awlaki
This study analyzed the dynamic framing processes that occurred within the public discourse in the United States surrounding the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen, by a CIA drone in Yemen on September 30, 2011. The study examined mainstream media broadcast transcripts and …
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When “it's time” to say “enough!”: youth activism before and during the Rose and Orange Revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine
… political opportunities, resource mobilization, framing processes, and diffusion – the analysis enabled deep insight into various aspects of the emergence and development of Kmara and Pora's campaigns and exposed commonalities and differences between them. The study confirms that the fixed and …
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Contextualizing the 2019 “Chile Despertó” Movement: The Impact of Historical Relational Processes on Mobilization and Repression
… of both institutional constraints and identity-framing processes. Similarly, the state responds in ways that are consistent with their own institutional and constructed identity. Finally, there is strong evidence that the relationship between social movements and repression is in fact relational …
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Anti-Racist Video Activism: Framing and production of new knowledges that challenge the post-truth hegemonic project
… action to resist and challenge these frames and framing processes. This thesis makes the necessary four-way theoretical and methodological links between hegemony, qualitative frame analysis, video activism and knowledge production to explore the ways in which dominant framings of immigration are …
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News about nanotechnology: a longitudinal framing analysis of newspaper reporting on nanotechnology.
… How do the characteristic features of the framing processes change over time? And to what extent does the reporting open opportunities for meaningful, democratic discussion around nanotechnology? To answer these questions, the research evaluates literature around the reporting of science …
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Bringing the visual into focus: Street art and contentious politics in Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina
… public opinion. It also contends that the framing processes leading to these outcomes have been under-specified due to their recourse to an epistemology that rationalises away the sensate dimensions of protest. A key claim of this thesis is that under certain circumstances street art can …
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FRAMING RIGHTS-CLAIMS: COLLECTIVE IDENTITY GROUPS IN THE TURKISH PUBLIC SPHERE
… in the public sphere by exploring what types of framing processes specific groups of activists adopt. My empirical focus is on how certain social movements in Turkey has framed their rights claims in the restrictive nature of the public sphere. What types of frames characterize these movements? …
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Explaining Radical Change in Ghanaian Health Care Policy
… and, finally, the ideational scholarship on framing processes can be combined to enrich our understanding of radical policy change. The study also introduces additional mechanisms of policy change that involve the use of repressive strategies before suggesting some modifications to a number …
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Local trade union responses in the context of public healthcare service privatisation
… to trade union strategic choice via two core framing processes: diagnostic framing and prognostic framing (Snow and Benford 2000), allowing for a more in depth look at the mechanisms which shape trade union responses to privatisation. This research adopts a cross-national comparative case …
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Transnational Activism for Migrant Workers: Examining the Struggles for Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
… opportunities in the political environment, and framing processes to galvanize support for the political action, in addressing these questions. The thesis will argue that how the activists take advantage of and create opportunities in the political environment as well as their capability to …
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Blessed Disruption: Culture and Urban Space in a European Church Planting Network
… studies the actors, sites and cultural processes behind a European church planting network to answer this question. The focus is on the anatomy of the network enabling church planting, the engagements with urban space and public culture by church planters, and their understanding of …
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