Essays about: "protest mobilisation"

Showing result 6 - 9 of 9 essays containing the words protest mobilisation.

  1. 6. Why Women Take to the Streets of Minsk : An Interview Study of Female Protesters' Motivations

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Mathilda Gustafsson; [2020]
    Keywords : authoritarian regime; Belarus; collective incentives; motivations; political participation; protest; protest movement; selective incentives; social movement; women.;

    Abstract : While there are numerous examples of research investigating who would protest and why, the research fields of social movements and political participation have not done enough to understand the motivations of women in protest. Nor are there enough studies of the mobilisation of women in anti-regime protest in a post-communist context. READ MORE

  3. 7. Resistance under repression. The political mobilisation of female migrant domestic workers in Lebanon

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Eva-Maria Hochreuther; [2019]
    Keywords : Migrant domestic workers; Domestic work; Lebanon; Political mobilisation; Labour protest; Free spaces;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to understand how the political mobilisation of migrant domestic workers (MDWs) employed in Lebanon started and continued. It also tries to comprehend how some of them could found a politically active collective of MDWs, the Alliance of Domestic Workers in Lebanon (Alliance), by analysing what factors enabled and restrained the open political activism of MDWs from their first steps as activists until now. READ MORE

  4. 8. Media and Protest Mobilisation : A time series cross-sectional analysis of immigration-related protests in Sweden

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Patrik Hermansson; [2016]
    Keywords : protest mobilisation; immigration; Sweden; protests; mobilisation; mobilization; protestmobilisering; immigration; Sverige; protester; mobilisering;

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  5. 9. Sayōnara Nukes - Development, Mobilisation Strategies and Organisation of Anti-Nuclear Protest in Japan after the 2011 Fukushima Accident

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

    Author : Niggemeier Jan; [2012]
    Keywords : Japan; Fukushima; anti-nuclear protest; political opportunities; resource mobilisation; framing; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Broad public contention against nuclear energy can be observed as a new phenomenon in Japanese society after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. This study aimed to detect an ample explanation about why the emergence of such a protest movement did only occur after the direct experience of a critical event and did not happen before. READ MORE