Essays about: "Everyday Political Resistance"
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1. “What Else Can We Do?” An examination into sustained anti-authoritarian mobilization in Hong Kong’s Yellow Economic Circle
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Civil liberties and freedoms have diminished globally due to the last decades’ deepened authoritarianism. Concurrently, mobilizations countering this development have decreased. READ MORE
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2. Individual Consumer Identity Formation in a Politicised World
University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Thesis Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to gain an understanding of how consumers build their individual identities through everyday political acts of consumption. Methodology & Empirical Data: This study is conducted based on a social constructionist worldview with a qualitative research design, adopting an inductive approach. READ MORE
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3. God, the Nation, and the King in Everyday Life : Everyday politics and everyday religion in an urban Jordanian context
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionenAbstract : Scholars and experts speak of a political apathy and a lack of political engagement in Jordan. In conventional studies of political engagement a large part of the actual everyday engagement of “the ordinary” is overlooked as it does not conform to the prevailing view of political or civic engagement. READ MORE
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4. The Everyday Practices of Resistance in Chinese Social Media: The Uses of Memes for Civic Engagement
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och mediaAbstract : This thesis aims to understand the everyday use of digital media by Chinese ordinary citizens as new forms of civic engagement under strict online censorship and CCP’s authoritarian control. With the announcement of the Third-child Policy as the analytical background, I adopted a qualitative research method and conducted digitally mediated ethnography on Sina Weibo users. READ MORE
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5. Resistance: Cultural Expression of Tea Plantation Workers in Bangladesh
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologiAbstract : This thesis is an ethnographic study of culture, economy, everyday life, and resistance among ‘Baganiyas’ (workers) of a tea plantation in contemporary Bangladesh. The main goal of this thesis is to highlight the Baganiyas' everyday resistance to the systemic alienation of the plantation structure and to demonstrate how their actions of resistance served as symbolic representations of their community's culture. READ MORE