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Protest camps: An emerging field of social movement research
No full textRecently protest camps have emerged around the world as a highly visible form of protest. Part and parcel of new social movement activism for over 40 years, they are important sites and catalysts for identity creation, expression, political contention and incubators for social change. While research has punctually addressed individual camps, there is lack of comparative and comprehensive research that links historic and contemporary protest camps as a unique area of interdisciplinary study. Research on the phenomenon to date has remained punctual and case based. This paper proposes to study protest camps as a distinct new field of research in social movement studies. Existing literature is critically reviewed and framed in three thematic clusters of spatiality, affect and autonomy. On the basis of this review the paper develops a research approach based on the analysis of infrastructures used to make protest camps. We contest that an infrastructural analysis highlights protest camps as a unique organizational form and transcends the limits of case-based research while respecting the varying contexts and trajectories of protest camps
Contexts of political protest in Western democracies: Political organization and modernity
No full textThis paper provides a comparative analysis of two contextual determinants of protest participation in 17 Western democracies at the beginning of the 1990's. The two determinants are the individual's organizational context and the national context of political and socioeconomic conditions. The organizational context is defined as the close context of political protest arising due to social interaction, while the national context is defined as the wide context, constituting of extra-individual factors. The relationship between the close context and political protest is specified by theories of mobilization, whereas in the case of the wide context modernization theories are used. Individual-level analysis of the effects of the close context reveals that protest participation increases with an individual's embeddedness in political organizations. This holds true not only for memberships in new but also in traditional political organizations. However, the organizational context does not contribute equally to all forms of protest. Its impact is stronger on legal than on illegal forms of protest. Concerning the wide context of political protest, evidence is provided by aggregate-level analysis that variations in the extent of legal protest between countries can be explained by different levels of political and socioeconomic modernity of societies. The more modern a society, the higher the extent of legal protest participation and the less legal protesters articulate demands for radical change to the societal order. To the contrary, the extent of illegal protest participation cannot be explained by a modernization approach. The research on the close and wide context of political protest indicates that the enlargement of the action repertory of citizens to include legal protest, is part of the modernization of politics. -- Für 17 westliche Demokratien wird für Anfang der 90er Jahre im internationalen Vergleich der Einfluß von zwei Kontextfaktoren auf die Beteiligung an politischem Protest untersucht. Zum einen ist dies der organisatorische Kontext von Individuen, der als enger Kontext definiert wird, weil er auf sozialen Interaktionen basiert Zum anderen ist dies der nationale politische und sozioökonomische Kontext, der hier als weiter Kontext definiert wird, da er sich auf extraindividuelle Faktoren bezieht Der Zusammenhang zwischen engem Kontext und politischem Protest wird durch Mobilisierungstheorien spezifiziert, der Einfluß des weiten Kontextes mithilfe von Modernisierungstheorien. Die Individualdatenanalyse der Effekte des engen Kontextes zeigt, daß die Beteiligung an politischem Protest mit dem Ausmaß der individuellen Einbettung in politische Organisationen zunimmt Dieser Zusammenhang gilt nicht nur für die Mitgliedschaft in neuen, sondern auch in traditionellen politischen Organisationen. Der organisatorische Kontext trägt hingegen nicht in gleicher Weise zu legalen und illegalen Protestaktivitäten bei. Er fördert in stärkerem Maße die Beteiligung an legalen Protestformen. Die Aggregatdatenanalyse der Effekte des weiten Kontextes zeigt, daß Unterschiede im Ausmaß der individuellen Beteiligung an legalen Protestformen zwischen Ländern durch deren unterschiedliches politisches und sozioökonomisches Modernitätsniveau erklärt werden kann. Je moderner eine Gesellschaft ist, desto höher ist das Ausmaß legaler Protestbeteiligung und um so weniger werden Forderungen nach einer radikalen Veränderung der Gesellschaft von den Bürgern artikuliert, die legale Protestformen einsetzen. Im Gegensatz zu legalen Formen kann das Ausmaß der Beteiligung an illegalen Formen des Protests nicht mithilfe von Modernisierungsansätzen erklärt werden. Insgesamt weisen die Ergebnisse daraufhin, daß die Ausweitung des Aktionsrepertoires der Bürger um den legalen Protest Teil der Modernisierung des Politischen ist.
Globalization from below. Transnational activists and protest networks
No full textThe volume reports the results of a empirical research carried out on the global justice movements. Using social movement studies as a main toolkit, it develops an original analysis of transnational forms of protest, focusing in particolar on the anti-G8 protest in Genoa and the first European Social Forum. The empirical analysis combine surveys of demonstrators, frame analysis of documents of social movement organizations as well as archival materials. The volume has 191 citations and 5 reviews
The Politics of Protest Avoidance: Policy Windows, Labor Mobilization, and Pension Reform in France
No full textAccording to Paul Pierson and R. Kent Weaver, the "new politics of the welfare state" is about escaping the popular blame generated by cutbacks affecting a significant portion of the population. Although the concept of blame avoidance helps to explain the political logic of welfare state retrenchment, one can argue that a careful analysis of social policy reform should take into account a largely understudied phenomenon: protest avoidance. Especially present in countries with single party governments and politically active labor unions, protest avoidance is analytically distinct from blame avoidance because it occurs when policy-makers, facing direct and nearly inescapable blame, attempt to reduce the scope of social mobilization triggered by unpopular reforms. In recent decades, successive French governments have successfully introduced major--and unpopular--reforms in the field of pensions, despite the difficulties to frame blame avoidance strategies in the context of France's strong concentration of state power. Focusing on the 1993, 1995, and 2003 pension reform episodes, this paper seeks to demonstrate that right wing governments have generally tried to avoid protest rather than escape blame. We claim that the key element has been avoiding disruptive strike activities by the labor movement, which are highly political in France. We argue that right wing governments have attempted to divide the fragmented labor movement and overload the reform agenda while enacting its most controversial reforms during the summer holiday season. Protest avoidance thus represents a key political variable worthy of study in the literature on welfare state retrenchment. In the future, the concept of protest avoidance could be applied to other countries and policy areas in which elected officials attempt to impose unpopular reforms that trigger social mobilization.protest avoidance; pension reform
Predicting stroke inpatient rehabilitation outcome: The prominent role of neuropsychological disorders
No full textThis study was designed to determine the role of demographic, medical and cognitive factors in the results of rehabilitation in first stroke patients. In a prospective study on 273 consecutive patients admitted to a rehabilitation hospital for sequelae of first stroke, we used multiple regressions to assess the relationship between 11 independent variables and a battery of outcome measures: mortality, length of hospital stay, Barthel Index (BI) and Rivermead Mobility Index (RMI) scores at discharge and their effectiveness. Severity of stroke at admission and hemineglect were the strongest prognostic factors. In a logistic model, cognitive impairment was a significant independent predictor (OR = 4.10) also after adjusting for age and severity of stroke. Patients with hemineglect had a significantly higher relative risk of poor autonomy [RR = 7.30, 95% confidence interval (CI) 4.04-13.18] and impaired mobility (RR = 9.25, CI 4.63-18.45). Global aphasic patients had similar risks for both autonomy (RR = 4.51, CI 2.74-7.41) and mobility (RR = 4.71, CI 2.79-7.97). This study underlines the crucial role of cognitive disorders as predictors of poor functional outcome in stroke survivors and confirms the need for early neuropsychological screening
The importance of scale in Occupy movement protests: a case study of a local Occupy protest as a tool of communication through Public Relations and Social Media
No full textThis paper explores the persuasive communications (public relations and branding through social media) of a micro Occupy event, namely a nine-day appearance of the global protest movement at Bournemouth University (BU), on the south coast of the UK. It reflects on how student and town protesters used digital and social media in comparison to the wider and more successful UK movement. It interviews the student leader, and asks questions about the role social networks like Occupii.org played in formulating communication strategies as well as how they integrated with more popular social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The conclusions coming from our micro case study suggest that without a supportive geographic and civic location; clear and focused messages, and robust strategic communication planning and execution, Occupy events will remain very small
Protest meeting at the Albert Hall, Canberra, January 1936 /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer from information on compactus card and reference sources.; Part of the collection: Dwyer collection of photographs of Canberra.; Inscriptions: "Protest meeting Jan. 1936."--On compactus card.; Also available online at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn6454116
Anti-immigration March, Denton, TX, 2006-01-07
No full textSandra Bean, member of the anti-immigrant group called Project Minuteman, responds to the press in Denton (Texas) in the midst of a protest carried out in front of a site where Hispanic day laborers gather. On the right, and unidentified opponent shows a t-shirt which insults members of Project Minuteman. Similar events were carried out in 17 cities of the United States as part of the national day of protest called "Stop the Invasion," alluding to the immigrants who enter this country illegally. (José L. Castillo
We Got a Taste for Protest! Leadership Transition and Political Opportunities for Protest in Angola's Resilient Authoritarian Regime
No full textThe protest boom in the African continent since 2011 has spanned different political regimes, including resilient authoritarian regimes. In this chapter we contribute to the study of protests in authoritarian states by exploring the political opportunities for protest arising from leadership change in Angola. We argue that the unprecedented transition of leadership at the top of the Angolan state in 2017 changed political opportunity structures and this led to an exponential increase in protests. We consider four variables when explaining this surge in protest: the new leader's openness to protest, the nonfulfillment of electoral pledges, the government's use of repression, and the protesters' perceptions of the political regime. President João Lourenço's initial openness together with the expectations rose, but not fulfilled by his administration created momentum for protest. These political opportunities fostered a new cognitive frame among protesters: a growing taste for protest that has triggered other uprisings despite government repression. We contend that a focus on the cognitive mechanism, set in motion by changes in the political environment, will further our understanding of the transformative power of protests in authoritarian regimes.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Immigration in Dallas, Texas
No full textGustavo Bujando Reyes (center, with shirt and tie) of the Citizens Network group and one of the instigators of the protest march carried out on Saturday in Dallas, greets the thousands of Hispanics who gathered for this mobilization. (Jose L. Castillo
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