Essays about: "protest symbols"

Found 3 essays containing the words protest symbols.

1. 1. Of Those Who Dared to Dream: Student Activists’ Contestation of Hierarchy in the Thai Youth-led Protest

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

   Author : Lara A. Franken; [2022]
   Keywords : Student Protests; Student Activists; Thai Hierarchy; Monarchy; Junta; Protest Symbols; Thailand; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis examines the perception of hierarchy and how student activists have challenged hierarchy in the youth-led protests through attacking symbols of hierarchy and authority. Hereby, the research is based on in-depth interviews with student activists form Bangkok, linking it to the contemporary and historical development of the Thai social order. READ MORE

3. 2. Kneeling Heroes, Standing Heroes: the role of identity discourses in the national anthem controversy

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Jesper Olsson; [2018]
   Keywords : National Anthem Controversy; American Identity; External Threats; Patriotic Symbols; Culture Wars; Freedom; Security; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The controversy over the national anthem protests became the latest battleground in an ongoing ´Culture war´ to define American identity. Domestic debates are where the content of common identity is negotiated, in this case the arguments made in the debate also taps into established discourses on identity. READ MORE

4. 3. A little story about big issues : an introspective account of FEMEN

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

   Author : Yelena Myshko; [2018]
   Keywords : FEMEN; Yelena Myshko; sextremism; embodiment; feminist activism; feminist snap; feminist polemic; body image; militant feminism; sweaty concept; autophenomenography; autoethnography; feminist writing; evocative storytelling; retrospective diary; dialogic meaning; censorship; national politics; police persecution; generational feminism; Resistance; protest technology; Ukraine; Netherlands; Sara Ahmed; Maurice Merleau-Ponty; Elizabeth Grosz; Mikhail Bakhtin; Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson; Carolyn Ellis; Laurel Richardson; Rosemarie Buikema; Marta Zarzycka; Steven Pressfield;

   Abstract : This research contributes a detailed personal account of a FEMEN activist. It presents an autophenomenographic analysis of cultural artefacts, including a Retrospective Diary, resulting from the activity of Yelena Myshko in FEMEN between 2012 and 2014. READ MORE