Essays about: "Protests"

Showing result 36 - 40 of 220 essays containing the word Protests.

  1. 36. Hidden behind the pandemic: A study on the effects of the COVID-19 restrictions on dissent

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Cecilia Maria Borella; [2022]
    Keywords : State repression; COVID-19; Dissent; Philippines;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to address how COVID-19 restrictions affected dissent events in autocracies and electoral autocracies. To do so relies on the combination of the grievances and resource mobilization theories. READ MORE

  3. 37. Hurtful Augenblick: Affect’s Doing in a Series of Instagram Stories of Resistance

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Samaneh Mohseni Hosseinabadi; [2022]
    Keywords : affect theories; photographic image; embodied simulation; Iran; social media; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the affective qualities in a set of Instagram stories juxtaposing photos of the pre- and after 1979 Iranian revolution protests. It poses the central question: ‘How can the power of photographic images in an era of social media be elucidated based on theories of affect?’ By asking this, another subsequent question arises: ‘How is an affective reading of a type of material of mixed and complex nature formulated?’ These two questions shape the structure of this thesis. READ MORE

  4. 38. An Attempt to Modernise Indian Agriculture

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Sargam Kuckreja; [2022]
    Keywords : India; Farm Laws; Agriculture Sector; Policy Failure; Modernisation; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The Indian agriculture sector plays a vital role in the country's economy and employs a significant number of individuals. The sector's performance has been plummeting in recent years, and this decrease in growth can be attributed to factors such as the provisions provided to farmers by the government. READ MORE

  5. 39. The Visual Transformation of Security Narratives: Visual Culture of the German Querdenker Movement on Instagram

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Meriel Olga Ott; [2022]
    Keywords : Querdenker; visual culture; COVID-19; ontological security; identity; Instagram; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic the post-truth and increasingly radicalized anti-vaccine movement has gained worldwide attention as a major opponent of Covid-restricting efforts. In Germany, the anti-vax movement Querdenker have staged several large-scale protests opposing the ’undemocratic’ government. READ MORE

  6. 40. The Others: Media representations of Indigenous Peoples in the coverage of environmental and political matters : A Critical Discourse-Analysis of the media coverage regarding the Mayan Train environmental protests and concerns in Mexico

    University essay from Jönköping University/HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Viviana Levet; [2022]
    Keywords : indigenous; indigenous peoples; indigenous representations; Mexico; media; media outlets; train; mayan; mayan train; environment; environmental discourse; media discourse; sustainability; social sustainability; indigeneity; racism; discrimination;

    Abstract : In the coverage of the Mayan Train in the Southeast of Mexico, national newspapers have either ignored Indigenous peoples as the main stakeholders affected by this project or portrayed them as victims and enemies of modernization. The purpose of this study is to analyse how the Mexican newspapers, La Jornada & Reforma, have omitted or ‘othered’ Indigenous communities in their coverage of the Mayan Train between March and June 2022. READ MORE