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Between fallacy and feasibility? Dealing with the risk of ecological fallacies in the quantitative study of protest mobilization and conflict [PDF]
In recent years, the quantitative study of conflict has increasingly focused on small-scale and/or localized conflicts in the developing world. In this paper, we analyze and critically reflect upon a major methodological shortcoming of many studies in ...
Demarest, Leila +2 more
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Activism as a long durée journey: Teachers against the Chilean neoliberal education model
Abstract In this paper, I use the idea of purposes of education, particularly subjectification, and the concept of love to explore long‐term teacher activism in Chile. ‘Long‐term activism’ is used to describe an ongoing struggle rather than activism confined to specific moments.
Carla Tapia‐Parada
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Social discontent and social protest
Is it possible to predict the social disorder with reference to the explicit citizens' dissatisfaction. The social discontent is not sufficient predictor for the social disorder. There is no an automatic link between the discontent and it's coherent behavior.
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Reflections on contemporary social protests and governance [PDF]
When the history of the present is eventually written, 2011 may well be most closely associated with the ‘Arab spring.’ Attention will undoubtedly centre on the revolutions of Tunisia and Egypt, as well as the currently ongoing protests against ...
Burton, Guy
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Towards a conceptualization of casual protest participation: Parsing a case from the Save Roşia Montană campaign [PDF]
There is currently an empirical gap in the literature on protest participation in liberal democracies which has overwhelmingly focused on Western Europe and North America at the expense of Eastern Europe.
Mercea, D.
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Abstract By skipping school for their cause, young climate strikers repeatedly demonstrated their priorities in 2019 and 2020. They regularly chose to sacrifice a day of their formal education in favour of collective action. This study asks what we can learn from the reflections of former youth strikers.
Loz J. Hennessy
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New “Danger Zone” in Europe: Representations of Place in Social Media–Supported Protests [PDF]
Social media–supported protests build circuits of collective interaction that grow across physical, material, digital, and virtual spaces. Extending the research on the governance of communicative spaces, we ask whether representations of place define ...
Brantner, Cornelia, Rodriguez-Amat, Joan
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Abstract This article examines how UK and US universities manage racial equality regimes through governance structures that prioritise institutional reputation over substantive racial justice reform. Drawing on Bourdieu's field, habitus and capital theory, the study demonstrates how universities neutralise racial justice efforts through bureaucratic ...
David Roberts
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Triggering the Protest Paradigm: Examining Factors Affecting News Coverage of Protests
Communication scholars have articulated the concept of protest paradigm to capture the news media’s tendency to portray social protests as deviant, threatening, or impotent.
Francis L. F. Lee
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Epidemiological Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 Variants During Social Protests in Cali, Colombia. [PDF]
Patiño LH +14 more
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