Managing Emotions During Social Protests and the Political Subjectivity of the Protesters [PDF]
The paper’s aim is to check whether there is a relationship between the effectiveness of emotion management techniques and the protesters’ subjectivity level in Poland.
Roman Bäcker
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Transnational Activism in Support of National Protest: Questions of Identity and Organization [PDF]
This article considers the question of whether transnational activism supporting national protest attains a cohesive collective identity on social media whilst organizationally remaining localized.
Mercea, D.
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Health Reform in the Midst of a Social and Political Crisis in Chile, 2019-2020
The protests in Chile in October 2019 raised the issue of health reform to the public agenda again. This article reviews some of the explanations for why there was a widespread protest, including the expectations of continued progress, the emergence of a
Thomas J. Bossert +1 more
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Explaining the fuel protests [PDF]
We describe and analyse the fuel protests in the UK in September and November 2000. We draw on theories of social movements to explain the success of the first of these protests and the failure of the second.
Doherty, BJA +3 more
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The protests of December 1996 from the point of view of network society theory [PDF]
The growth of new communication and information technologies and the formation of a networked society have had major effects on the world life, including the formation of virtual reality.
rohallah hosseinpoor, Ahmad Rashidi
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Contentious politics in the European (post-socialist)(semi-)periphery: Mapping rebellion and social protests in southeast and eastern Europe [PDF]
This essay takes a critical and reflective look at two recently published books on contentious politics in the Balkans and Eastern Europe: Social Movements in the Balkans (ed. by F. Bieber and D.
Vasiljević Jelena
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Protests in Nigeria have gained global attention in recent times and have attracted different explanations about their root causes. Violence may sometimes erupt because of protests; however, this does not usually happen until additional factors ...
Theophilus Adedokun
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Of “raisins” and “yeast”: mobilisation and framing in the East German revolution of 1989 [PDF]
There is no shortage of literature on the social movements that arose in East Germany in 1989. Numerous studies have shed light upon the nature, scale and dynamics of the uprising of that year. But on certain issues questions remain. No consensus exists,
Bahrmann Hannes +27 more
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The „Third Wave”. Reborn of social activity, and a social inclusion, among young Poles [PDF]
The phenomenon of the „Third Wave", which is a reborn of civic activity among a youth and social inclusion of young Poles is widely descripted from the historical perspective.
Filip Nalaskowski , Dagna Dejna
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Tents, tweets, and events: The interplay between ongoing protests and social media [PDF]
Recent protests have fuelled deliberations about the extent to which social media ignites popular uprisings. In this article, we use time-series data of Twitter, Facebook, and onsite protests to assess the Granger causality between social media streams ...
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