Essays about: "civil resistance"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 70 essays containing the words civil resistance.

  1. 21. Undermining Resistance : State Repression in the Gezi Park Protests

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

    Author : Nina Kaufmann; [2021]
    Keywords : Protest; Repression; Civil Resistance; De-escalation; Gezi;

    Abstract : This paper investigates how changes in states’ repression tactics impact the dynamics of civil protests. Research on the repression-dissident nexus has commonly studied repression as one concept, lacking disaggregation into its different types. READ MORE

  3. 22. The Partisan Reporter : A study of the news reporting on the American race issue by Sven Öste, 1963-71

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Oskar Brundin; [2021]
    Keywords : Transnational history; Swedish-American relations; Swedish-American history; Civil Rights history; American race issue.;

    Abstract : This thesis presents how the American race issue was depicted in Sweden during the 1960s until the early 1970s by studying the work of Sven Öste in Dagens Nyheter. Sven Öste was Dagens Nyheter’s Washington correspondent between 1963-1966 and 1968-1971, where he did prize winning reporting on the Vietnam war and covered the American race issue. READ MORE

  4. 23. Community voices against neo-extractivist projects. An analysis of the discourses surrounding fracking in La Huasteca Potosina, Mexico

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Paulina Solis Patino; [2021]
    Keywords : Neo-extractivism; fracking; ecological distribution conflicts; social resistance; discourses; indigenous territories; decoloniality; Mexico; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In 2013, the previous Mexican federal government passed a constitutional reform of the energy sector that set the grounds for the use of fracking at a national scale. Less than two years later, a strategic policy document was published, mapping a whole set of areas whose deposits require the use of fracking to be exploited. READ MORE

  5. 24. Making Room for the Holocaust? : Entangled Memory Regimes and Polarized Contestation about the Greek 1940s in Thessaloniki

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

    Author : Dimitrios Tziogkas; [2021]
    Keywords : Holocaust in Salonika; Greek 1940s; National Resistance; Greek Civil War; Collaboration; Second World War; Collective memory; Memory regime; Mnemonic field; Holocaust distortion;

    Abstract : The present thesis offers a new perspective on Holocaust memory in Greece by examining the ways in which divergent mnemonic representations about the Greek 1940s, as evidenced in polarized public contestation, influence the position of Holocaust in contemporary Greek collective memory. Adopting a micro-level case-study approach, the thesis focuses on the process of renaming a street in Salonika (or Thessaloniki), by examining public discourses around the issue. READ MORE

  6. 25. The Wrong Amazon Is Burning : A qualitative case study of a protest movement against the Cyber Valley in Tübingen

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Christina Boger; [2020]
    Keywords : activism; civil resistance; Cyber Valley; militarism; protest movement; case study; antimilitarism; protest actions; surveillance;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates the resistance of actors of civil society against perceived militarism, by means of a qualitative case study. As the title suggests, the establishment of a “Cyber Valley” in Tübingen, has not only been met with approval by local citizens. READ MORE