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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"riot"”.
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Media Framings of Pussy Riot
… three members of the feminist punk group Pussy Riot, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, were arrested on charges of “hooliganism” for guerilla performances of their controversial music in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The group simultaneously captured …
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The Omaha riot of 1919
… the strange effects of this unusual lynching and riot. Because of the local and political nature of the event, such usual source materials as books and journals relating to it are practically non-existent. As a result, the main source of this thesis has been the stirring daily record provided by …
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Toward a Performative Elision of the Intelligible Public: Pussy Riot, Riot Grrrl, and Race Riots
… works against such moments. Investigating Riot Grrrl, Pussy Riot and the death of Eric Garner, this thesis concludes that resistance’s possibilities sit in the refusal of the reproduction of societally sanctioned contingent realities.
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Riot or rebellion: media framing and the 1967 Detroit uprising
<p>Frames make sense of complex issues and events, including identifying who is to blame and who or what is responsible for overcoming the problem. This research builds on the growing list of framing research, but takes the focus in a new direction, focusing on the longevity of frames and how they …
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'Riot', 'Revolution' and 'Rape': The theatre relationship and performance breakdown
… In the first example, the Plough and the Stars riots (Dublin, 1926) a preplanned protest occurred in the playhouse and, despite interruption, the performance continued. In the second instance, the audience at Living Theatre’s Paradise Now (California 1969) erupted in spontaneous protest within …
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An Analysis of Major American Riots: Issues in Riots and Riot Control
… research to understand the concepts surrounding rioting and efficient riot response tactics, professionals, especially whose main job is to ensure the tranquility in the society, will be better prepared to deal with all kinds of civil movements. The purpose of this study, consequently, is to meet …
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“They shall be speaking forever” : performing revolution, riot, and the nation in the centenary commemorations of Ireland’s 1916 Rising
Throughout 2016, Irish theatre-makers created scores of commemorative performances for the centenary of Ireland’s 1916 Rising. These performances, whether commissioned by or created in opposition to the government-funded national commemorative initiative Ireland 2016, transmitted and unsettled …
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From the Yonge Street Riot to the Carding Controversy: Policing and Surveilling the Black Community in Toronto, Canada, 1992-2016
In the last decade, the conversation surrounding racial profiling and carding in the city of Toronto garnered much public and scholarly attention. Many journalists, academics and activists have examined the Community Contacts Policy, also known as carding, as well as mass incarceration and the …
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Come As You Are, As I Want You to Be: Grunge/Riot Grrrl Pedagogy and Identity Construction in the Second Year Writing Program
<p>A look at how artists in the grunge and Riot Grrrl movements constructed public identities that typically appealed to the economic, cultural, and social conditions of the early 1990s. These public personas -- perceived as “honest” -- were defined by negotiation with mainstream culture, the …
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Gay in Game: A Rhetorical Analysis of Gay Identity Through Varus and Sett/Aphelios in League of Legends
This study investigates how the company Riot Games represents gay identity in the video game League of Legends (LoL) but reifies negative frames historically associated to gay individuals. Riot Games’ history of harassment and discrimination in the workplace, as well as the gaming industry’s …
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Transcendent leader centered analysis: A reconstructive approach to social movement analysis
… the movements which led to the 1980 Miami Riot and the 1992 Los Angeles Riot, and a recent movement which transpired in New York City surrounding the police shooting of Amadou Diallo. Conclusions indicate that in the postmodern era a social movement leader's utmost priority should not be to …
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The Discourse of Racial Violence: Chicago, 1914--1923
… initially responded to the 1919 Chicago race riot by mobilizing elements of dominant discourses of race, gender, and class. Middle-class and elites whites, who largely did not participate in the violence, drew on these discourses because these narratives reinforced their own claims to …
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The lost revolution : capitalism, democracy and black citizenship in early twentieth-century America's biggest race conflicts
… tumult following the end of World War I, three riots that were notable for their scale and significance to both American race relations and black political activism occurred in the United States: the Chicago Riot of 1919, the Elaine Riot of 1919 and the Tulsa Riot of 1921. All three riots …
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Twelve Days of Hell: A Study of Violence, Historical Memory, and Media Coverage of the York, Pennsylvania Race Riots, 1968-2003
Race riots have struck America’s cities large and small for more than a century, and the media have retold these brutal events for American audiences. The 1960s, in particular, endured years of violent rioting due to social and economic inequalities between whites and blacks, and many of these …
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Between two fires: race and the Chicago Federation of Labor, 1904-1922
… External factors—most importantly, the race riot of 1919 and the hegemonic power of employers—further weakened the Federation and doomed its efforts. After suffering a series of brutal defeats in the early twentieth century, all of which involved racial conflict, CFL leadership sought to …
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Computational and laboratory investigations of a model of blood droplet flight for forensic applications
… transfer blood or porcine blood shot by a riot ball from a paintball gun constituting a simulated bloodletting event. The experiments are captured using highspeed stereo camera pair from which three-dimensional trajectories can be extracted using tracking software. The long-term goal is to …
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Structuralist and interactionist perspectives of collective behavior and control of crowds.
… policy implications they imply for the Turkish Riot Police Units. The civil disturbances in the 1960s have clearly illustrated range of problems in the domain of crowd control. This work will start with the general characteristics and the classification of collective behavior. Second, two main …
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The Politics of Intermediality: Late Modernist Circulations of the Event
… during the Spanish Civil War, the 1943 Harlem riot, and the atomic bombing of Japan in order to evaluate media practices from a range of cultural and historical contexts. Employing eventalization, my research illuminates intersections of media, gender, race, nation, and sexuality. Some of the …
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