Essays about: "violent social movements"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 essays containing the words violent social movements.
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1. Police violence and the state: The negotiation of the boundaries between legitimated and illegitimate police violence in the context of the gilets jaunes protests
University essay from Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionenAbstract : The French gilets jaunes (yellow vest) protest movement, sparked by a planned carbon fuel tax in 2018 is marked by numerous injuries and mutilations of protesters by police, and characterised by a shift towards a more confrontational protest policing strategy. Viewing protest policing and police violence as interlinked with political processes, this thesis explores the question of how the boundaries between sanctioned and unsanctioned police violence are (re-)negotiated in the intersections of law (enforcement) and politics in the specific context of the gilets jaunes movement. READ MORE
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2. Citizens, Leaders, and (Non-)Trust : Democratic protests and peaceful attitudes in Malawi
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskningAbstract : Non-violent protests are extensively connected to successful democratization, but they also constitute socially fragmenting events. This is particularly dangerous in societies with pre-existing ethnic divisions which is why the protests’ democratizing effects need to be studied on a subnational level. READ MORE
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3. “NONVIOLENCE IS FINE AS LONG AS IT WORKS” : A study of the relationship between civil society and processes of radicalization
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskningAbstract : The radicalization literature within the field of social movement research which studies the phenomenon of primarily nonviolent protests becoming primarily violent has mapped a variety of mechanisms that drive or underlie the radicalization of nonviolent resistance. To date, little attention has however been directed at the potential role of civil society influencing the trajectories of protests. READ MORE
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4. The Violent Law of Human Rights: An attempt to analyze the problematic nexus between law, rebellion, and human rights discourse
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : Rebellion is a seldom accomplished attempt aiming to bend the law to counterweight the sovereign power or to overthrow the sovereign in a given legal order. Either way, it contests the boundaries of the law. The thesis at hand aims to investigate the problematic relationship between the human rights discourse, law and the concept of rebellion. READ MORE
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5. Online anti-feminism within the Incel community and ideology - Feminist ethnographic and feminist content analysis of Incels’ manifestation of online anti-feminism, masculinity structures and aggrieved entitlement on r/Braincels
University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : This thesis is a critical, feminist ethnographic research of one of the most extremist and violent movements that originated from the growing online anti-feminist ideology. Based on a feminist poststructuralist epistemological tradition, this thesis researches the growing Incel movement through feminist cyber-ethnography, netnography and feminist content analysis. READ MORE