Essays about: "protest"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 209 essays containing the word protest.
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21. Women, Protest and Democracy:Analysing the Role of Women in Nonviolent Resistance Movements and Democratisation
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskningAbstract : This study aims to shed light on the gendered dynamics of nonviolent resistance and democratisation. Illuminating the role that women can play in the democratisation processes can help underline the importance of women's empowerment. READ MORE
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22. 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 konfliktforskningAbstract : 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
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23. The Visual Transformation of Security Narratives: Visual Culture of the German Querdenker Movement on Instagram
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : 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
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24. Climate Justice Movement as Norm Entrepreneur in Global Politics : Creating an Alternative Future in Lützerath to Protest Coal Mining
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)Abstract : This thesis argues that contemporary climate justice actions can present a case for how social movements and activists engage as norm entrepreneurs with global politics. Following a case-based approach (McKee, 2003) and combining perspectives of political science with anthropology, theoretical concepts of everyday utopias (Cooper, 2014) and prefiguration (Maeckelbergh, 2011b; 2014) are applied to the case of a village occupation in Germany against a lignite coal mine expansion. READ MORE
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25. From the Margins to the Center : Hip Hop and Rap as Infrastructure for the Black Americans in the 1980s and early 1990s
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrumAbstract : This thesis examines whether hip hop, and rap in particular, was an infrastructure for the lower-class of Black Americans in the 1980s and early 1990s to transport their concerns, knowledge, and protest from the margins to the center. It first demonstrates what issues Black Americans from the ghetto have raised in terms of content in the first place. READ MORE