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Protest camps in international context : spaces, infrastructures and media of resistance
From the squares of Spain to indigenous land in Canada, protest camps are a tactic used around the world. Since 2011 they have gained prominence in recent waves of contentious politics, deployed by movements with wide-ranging demands for social change. Through a series of international and interdisciplinary case studies from five continents, this publication focuses on protest camps as unique organisational forms that transcend particular social movements' contexts.
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Revolting subjects
Revolting Subjects is a groundbreaking account of social abjection in contemporary Britain, exploring how particular groups of people are figured as revolting and how they in turn revolt against their abject subjectification. The book utilizes a number of high-profile and in-depth case studies - including 'chavs', asylum seekers, Gypsies and Travellers, and the 2011 London riots - to examine the ways in which individuals negotiate restrictive neoliberal ideologies of selfhood. In doing so, Tyler argues for a deeper psychosocial understanding of the role of representational forms in producing marginality, social exclusion and injustice, whilst also detailing how stigmatization and scapegoating are resisted through a variety of aesthetic and political strategies. Imaginative and original, Revolting Subjects introduces a range of new insights into neoliberal societies, and will be essential reading for those concerned about widening inequalities, growing social unrest and social justice in the wider global context.
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Delivering Solidarity: Platform Architecture and Collective Contention in China’s Platform Economy
This study examines how and when labor control and management leads to collective resistance in China’s food-delivery platform economy. I develop the concept of “platform architecture” to examine the technological, legal, and organizational aspects of control and management in the labor process and the variable relationships between them. Analyzing 68 in-depth interviews, ethnographic data, and 87 cases of strikes and protests, I compare the platform architecture of service and gig platforms and examine the relationship between their respective architecture and labor contention. I argue that specific differences in platform architecture diffuse or heighten collective contention. Within the service platform, technological control and management generates work dissatisfaction, but the legal and organizational dimensions contain grievances and reduce the appeal of, and spaces for, collective contention. Conversely, within the gig platform, all three dimensions of platform architecture reinforce one another, escalating grievances, enhancing the appeal of collective contention, and providing spaces for mobilizing solidarity and collective action. As a result, gig platform couriers are more likely to consider their work relations exploitative and to mobilize contention, despite facing higher barriers to collective action due to the atomization of their work.
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Health worker protests and the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis/Manifestations du personnel de sante et pandemie de COVID- 19: analyse de serie chronologique interrompue/Las protestas del personal sanitario y la pandemia de la COVID-19: un analisis de series temporales interrumpidas
Metodos Se realizo un analisis de series temporales interrumpidas de datos de 159 paises durante dos anos antes y despues de que la Organizacion Mundial de la Salud clasificara la COVID-19 como pandemia en marzo de 2020, es decir, entre 2018 y 2022. Se elaboraron modelos para examinar dos resultados principales: (i) el numero total semanal de protestas del personal sanitario en todo el mundo; y (ii) el numero de paises con una o mas protestas del personal sanitario en una semana determinada.
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Sexuality, Subjectivity, and LGBTQ Militancy in the United States
This book examines the fluctuating place of sexuality in LGBTQ mobilization in the US. It contends that, while politically successful, the US LGBTQ movement has a record of neglecting a key aspect of LGBTQ militancy-sexuality-and analyses grassroots efforts at re-politicizing sexuality and re-sexualizing LGBTQ politics.
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ENOUGH: COVID-19, Structural Racism, Police Brutality, Plutocracy, Climate Change—and Time for Health Justice, Democratic Governance, and an Equitable, Sustainable Future
COVID-19 starkly reveals how structural injustice cuts short the lives of people subjected to systemic racism and economic deprivation.2 4 It is not, however, the only crisis at hand.Since the May 25, 2020, murder of George Floyd, a 46year-old African American man, by the Minneapolis, Minnesota, police, protests have coursed through cities and towns across the United States, denouncing structural racism and police violence,5-7 fueled, too, by COVID-19's disproportionate toll on US populations of color.2 4 In a context in which US police kill upwards of 1000 people peryear-nearly three per day, disproportionately Black Americans, and vastly more than in any other wealthy country5,6 -the last straw was Floyd's horrific murder.7 Floyd died because he could not breathe, because police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for an agonizing 8 minutes and 46 seconds-in open view, as videoed for all to see, while three other police standing nearby failed to intervene.The current upsurge ofprotest builds on the leadership of so many groups, perhaps most prominently Black Lives Matter, founded in 2013 by three radical Black women organizers-Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi-in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin's vigilante murderer, George Zimmerman, and which rapidly grew in the wake of Michael Brown's killing by Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson in 2014.8 Also feeding these protests is the post-2016 rise in hate crimes,9 coupled with overt expressions of racism, both by word and by policies, at the highest levels of the US . 2,10 government.
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JusticeforGeorgeFloyd: How Instagram facilitated the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests
We present and analyze a database of 1.13 million public Instagram posts during the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, which erupted in response to George Floyd’s public murder by police on May 25. Our aim is to understand the growing role of visual media, focusing on a) the emergent opinion leaders and b) the subsequent press concerns regarding frames of legitimacy. We perform a comprehensive view of the spatial (where) and temporal (when) dynamics, the visual and textual content (what), and the user communities (who) that drove the social movement on Instagram. Results reveal the emergence of non-institutional opinion leaders such as meme groups, independent journalists, and fashion magazines, which contrasts with the institutionally reinforcing nature of Twitter. Visual analysis of 1.69 million photos show symbols of injustice are the most viral coverage, and moreover, actual protest coverage is framed positively, in contrast with combatant frames traditionally found from legacy media. Together, these factors helped facilitate the online movement through three phases, culminating with online international solidarity in #BlackOutTuesday. Through this case study, we demonstrate the precarious nature of protest journalism, and how content creators, journalists, and everyday users co-evolved with social media to shape one of America’s largest-ever human rights movements.
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Investigating the impact of social media images on users’ sentiments towards sociopolitical events based on deep artificial intelligence
This paper presents the findings of the research aimed at investigating the influence of visual content, posted on social media in shaping users’ sentiments towards specific sociopolitical events. The study analyzed various sociopolitical topics by examining posts containing relevant hashtags and keywords, along with their associated images and comments. Using advanced machine learning and deep learning methods for sentiment analysis, textual data were classified to determine the expressed sentiments. Additionally, the correlation between posted visual content and user sentiments has been studied. A particular emphasis was placed on understanding how these visuals impact users’ attitudes toward the events. The research resulted in a comprehensive dataset comprising labeled images and their comments, offering valuable insights into the dynamics of public opinion formation through social media. This study investigates the influence of social media images on user sentiment toward sociopolitical events using deep learning-based sentiment analysis. By analyzing posts from movements such as Black Lives Matter, Women’s March, Climate Change Protests, and Anti-war Demonstrations, we identified a strong correlation between visual content and public sentiment. Our results reveal that Anti-war Demonstrations exhibit the highest correlation (PLCC: 0.709, SROCC: 0.723), while Climate Change Protests display the lowest alignment (PLCC: 0.531, SROCC: 0.611). Overall, the study finds a consistent positive correlation (PLCC range: 0.615–0.709, SROCC: 0.611–0.723) across movements, indicating the significant role of visual content in shaping the public opinion.
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How does perceptions of social justice affect farmers’ political participation?—Evidence from China
Ronald Inglehart’s postmaterialist theory suggests that with the advancement of industrialization and economic prosperity, there will be a significant transformation in people’s societal values. Concurrently, their forms of political participation shift from conventional activities to unconventional politic activities. However, most research on this topic has been predominantly focused on Western countries. In fact, rural farmers in China serve as an excellent experimental group for testing this theory since they have experienced rapid economic growth while still being deeply influenced by traditional authoritarianism culture.Using a sample of 6,689 respondents from the 2019 Chinese Social Survey (CSS) and employing a Binary Logistic Regression Model, we discovered that Chinese farmers’ perception of overall societal justice exhibits a U-shaped relationship with various forms of political participation. Specifically, it shows a significant negative correlation with non-institutional political participation, such as contact-officer participation, but a significant positive correlation with institutional political participation types like community participation and election participation.Our further research indicates that the three subtypes of perception of societal justice are significantly negatively correlated only with non-institutional political participation, while their statistical relationship with institutional political participation is not significant. We believe that the underlying reason for this phenomenon lies in the unique interpretation of societal justice within Chinese traditional culture. Additionally, through a comparative analysis of models on political participation behavior and willingness, we found that despite significant inequalities and disparities in institutional structures and levels of economic development between rural and urban areas in China, rational considerations of the risks and costs associated with defying the government deter Chinese farmers from engaging in non-institutional politic activities unless their emotional resentment towards unjust practices reaches a certain threshold.
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