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Current Opinion in Psychology, 2020 Recent research on social movements have shown the significant role protest symbols play in mobilizing action and constructing a shared identity for a group pressing for social change. The present article gives an overview of crowd and social movement theories that focus on how symbols form and maintain groups.
Sarah H Awad, Brady Wagoner
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FORMS OF PROTEST IN LATVIA DURING THE PANDEMIC VERSUS THE ACTIVITY OF THE POLICE
Baltic Journal of Economic Studies, 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic, which broke out on an unprecedented scale in 2020, forced the public authorities to impose a series of restrictions and limitations on constitutional rights and freedoms, which provoked strong reactions, particularly in the ...
Joanna Marszałek-Kawa
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Protest mood in Russia in comparison with European countries: case studies 2017-2019 [PDF]
Przegląd Europejski, 2020 -
Yaroslav R. Ignatovskiy +4 more
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Reconceptualizing Online Free Spaces: A Case Study of the Sunflower Movement [PDF]
Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia, 2016 Using the Sunflower movement as a case study, this article seeks to articulate a theoretical framework to evaluate online “free spaces” as tools for political mobilization.
Anson Au
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States vs. Social Movements: Protests and State Repression in Asia
Media and Communication, 2022 This study considers how governments use state-sponsored propaganda and state violence in tandem to repress social movements and, in so doing, exacerbate polarization. We specifically focus on cases in young and non-democracies in East and Southeast Asia:
Josephine Lukito +4 more
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The role of protests on the journey to a politics without violence
Deusto Journal of Human Rights, 2022 This article explores the relationship between protest, violence and the possibility of a politics without violence. It argues that protest is not only a valid but also a necessary vehicle for the journey towards a politics without violence ...
Jenny Pearce, Iván Garzón Vallejo
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The Granite Revolution: A Role Model or a Missed Opportunity
Codrul Cosminului, 2023 The events that took place on Kyiv’s Maidan in 1990 went down in history as the ‘Revolution on Granite’. It was one of the first student performances in the USSR.
Oleksandr Boyko, Mateusz Kamionka
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Nursing, 2020 DENVER, VS - Deze verpleegkundige probeert samen met collega-zorgverleners demonstrerende automobilisten tegen te houden. De demonstranten togen eind april naar de regeringsgebouwen in Denver, Colorado, omdat ze het niet eens waren met de lockdown die de staat had opgelegd. Fotograaf Alyson McClaran vertelt dat deze verpleegkundige alle kalmte bewaarde
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Gradient Boosting Machine to Assess the Public Protest Impact on Urban Air Quality
Applied Sciences, 2021 Political and economic protests build-up due to the financial uncertainty and inequality spreading throughout the world. In 2019, Latin America took the main stage in a wave of protests.
Rasa Zalakeviciute +6 more
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Empirical Economics, 2020 This paper explores the spillover of protests across countries using data on nonviolent and spontaneous demonstrations for 200 countries from 2000 to 2020. Using an autoregressive spatial model, the analysis finds strong evidence of "contagious protests," with a catalyzing role of social media.
Arezki, Rabah +3 more
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