Esta tese investiga as performances de confronto político desempenhadas pelas associações abolicionistas após a promulgação da lei 3.353, que declarou extinta a escravidão no Brasil. O objetivo é entender o que se passa com um movimento social depois que sua principal reivindicação é atingida. Neste caso, trata-se de investigar se os principais atores do movimento abolicionista, a saber, as associações abolicionistas, continuaram em atividade e o que faziam após a abolição. A via metodológica escolhida para a investigação consistiu na quantificação da informação disponível na própria imprensa abolicionista. A pesquisa consistiu no levantamento e leitura de periódicos abolicionistas da província do Rio de Janeiro, publicados entre 13 de maio de 1888 (data da lei áurea) e 15 de novembro de 1889 (data da proclamação da república). A partir desta leitura dos jornais foi construído um banco de dados, com identificação das associações abolicionistas que permaneceram em atividade mesmo depois de atingida a sua principal demanda, bem como das suas performances políticas. A intenção desta tese é tripla: correlacionar performances encenadas no pós-abolição com as do pré-abolição para verificar se elas preservam o padrão de ativismo construído pelo movimento abolicionista; argumentar que as associações são uma ponte organizacional suspendida no tempo, permitindo a transmissão de padrões de performances de um período a outro, assim promovendo a ligação entre ciclos de ativismos; e por último, analisar as interações de confronto das associações com as instituições políticas, observando as aberturas e fechamentos institucionais a elas. A tese demonstra a continuidade do ativismo abolicionista no pós-abolição, identificando 10 associações, sendo a Confederação Abolicionista a matriz organizacional, atuantes no imediato pós-abolição no Rio de Janeiro num contexto adverso, no qual as instituições políticas se mostraram mais refratarias do que receptivas aos abolicionistas. / This thesis investigates the performances of contentious politics that were carried out by abolitionist associations after the enactment of the 3.353 law, which declared that slavery in Brazil was extinguished. The goal is to understand what happens with a social movement when it accomplished its main claim. In this case, it is about revealing if the main actors of the abolitionist movement the abolitionist associations maintained their activities and what they did after the abolition of slavery. The methodological path chosen for the investigation consists in quantifying the information made available by the abolitionist press itself. The research consisted in reading and mapping abolitionist journals from the province of Rio de Janeiro, published between May, 13th of 1988 (the day the Golden Law Lei Áurea - was signed) and November, 15th (the day of the proclamation of the Republic). From the reading of the journals, we built a database, identifying the abolitionist associations that kept their activities even after achieving their main goal, as well as their political performances. We have three goals: to correlate performances in mis-en-scène in the post-abolition with the ones from the pre-abolition period, in order to see if they maintain the activism standard which was built by the abolitionist movement; to argue that associations are an abeyance organizational bridge in time, allowing the transmission of performance patterns from one period to another, thus promoting the connection between activism cycles; lastly, to analyze the interaction of contention of associations with political institutions, observing the institutional opennes and closures that they were subject to. The thesis shows the continuity of abolitionist activism in the post-abolition period, identifying 10 acting associations after the abolition in Rio de Janeiro. The Abolitionist Confederation was the organizational matrix even in an adverse post-abolition context, in which the political institutions demonstrated being more refractory than receptive to the abolitionists.

Esta tese investiga as performances de confronto político desempenhadas pelas associações abolicionistas após a promulgação da lei 3.353, que declarou extinta a escravidão no Brasil. O objetivo é entender o que se passa com um movimento social depois que sua principal reivindicação é atingida. Neste caso, trata-se de investigar se os principais atores do movimento abolicionista, a saber, as associações abolicionistas, continuaram em atividade e o que faziam após a abolição. A via metodológica escolhida para a investigação consistiu na quantificação da informação disponível na própria imprensa abolicionista. A pesquisa consistiu no levantamento e leitura de periódicos abolicionistas da província do Rio de Janeiro, publicados entre 13 de maio de 1888 (data da lei áurea) e 15 de novembro de 1889 (data da proclamação da república). A partir desta leitura dos jornais foi construído um banco de dados, com identificação das associações abolicionistas que permaneceram em atividade mesmo depois de atingida a sua principal demanda, bem como das suas performances políticas. A intenção desta tese é tripla: correlacionar performances encenadas no pós-abolição com as do pré-abolição para verificar se elas preservam o padrão de ativismo construído pelo movimento abolicionista; argumentar que as associações são uma ponte organizacional suspendida no tempo, permitindo a transmissão de padrões de performances de um período a outro, assim promovendo a ligação entre ciclos de ativismos; e por último, analisar as interações de confronto das associações com as instituições políticas, observando as aberturas e fechamentos institucionais a elas. A tese demonstra a continuidade do ativismo abolicionista no pós-abolição, identificando 10 associações, sendo a Confederação Abolicionista a matriz organizacional, atuantes no imediato pós-abolição no Rio de Janeiro num contexto adverso, no qual as instituições políticas se mostraram mais refratarias do que receptivas aos abolicionistas. / This thesis investigates the performances of contentious politics that were carried out by abolitionist associations after the enactment of the 3.353 law, which declared that slavery in Brazil was extinguished. The goal is to understand what happens with a social movement when it accomplished its main claim. In this case, it is about revealing if the main actors of the abolitionist movement the abolitionist associations maintained their activities and what they did after the abolition of slavery. The methodological path chosen for the investigation consists in quantifying the information made available by the abolitionist press itself. The research consisted in reading and mapping abolitionist journals from the province of Rio de Janeiro, published between May, 13th of 1988 (the day the Golden Law Lei Áurea - was signed) and November, 15th (the day of the proclamation of the Republic). From the reading of the journals, we built a database, identifying the abolitionist associations that kept their activities even after achieving their main goal, as well as their political performances. We have three goals: to correlate performances in mis-en-scène in the post-abolition with the ones from the pre-abolition period, in order to see if they maintain the activism standard which was built by the abolitionist movement; to argue that associations are an abeyance organizational bridge in time, allowing the transmission of performance patterns from one period to another, thus promoting the connection between activism cycles; lastly, to analyze the interaction of contention of associations with political institutions, observing the institutional opennes and closures that they were subject to. The thesis shows the continuity of abolitionist activism in the post-abolition period, identifying 10 acting associations after the abolition in Rio de Janeiro. The Abolitionist Confederation was the organizational matrix even in an adverse post-abolition context, in which the political institutions demonstrated being more refractory than receptive to the abolitionists.

Contrairement à ce que plusieurs académiciens ont traditionnellement envisagé, la question principale qui a animé cette recherche s’est axée à indiquer comment les secteurs subalternes ont-ils exprimé leurs défis politiques pendant la période de 1770 à 1830 dans l’ancienne Gobernación de Popayán et comment ces actions ont marqué les relations entre les secteurs subalternes et les autres secteurs de la société de l’époque (composés principalement des criollos et péninsulaires). Alors, le propos principal de cette recherche a été celui de caractériser la culture politique des secteurs subalternes, exprimée à travers des actions collectives contentieuses pendant la période de 1770 à 1830 dans la Gobernación de Popayán, tenant en compte la transition politique qui s’est passé avec le processus d’indépendance qui eut lieu au début du XIXème siècle. Le but principal de cette recherche a donc été de comprendre les échangés, les tensions entre les secteurs subalternes et les groupes sociaux représentés par les élites créoles et péninsulaires, et comment au travers les actions collectives, les subalternes purent exprimer notions ou valeurs comme justice, liberté, et procurèrent aussi d’établir des mécanismes de solidarité d´action conjointe et mobilisation collective tout au long de ces années troubles / Contrary to what many scholars have traditionally contemplated, the main question that prompted this research centered on how the subordinate sectors expressed their political challenges during the period 1770 to 1830 in the former Gobernación de Popayán and how these actions marked the relations between the subordinate sectors and the other sectors of the society of the time (mainly composed of Criollo and Peninsular). The main purpose of this research was to characterize the political culture of the subordinate sectors, expressed through contentious collective actions during the period from 1770 to 1830 in the Gobernación de Popayán, taking into account the political transition that took place passed with the process of independence that took place at the beginning of the XIXth century. The main aim of this research was to understand exchanges, tensions between the subaltern sectors and the social groups represented by the Creole and Peninsular elites, and how through collective actions the subordinates could express notions or values as justice, freedom, and also to establish mechanisms of solidarity for joint action and collective mobilization throughout these turbulent years.

This thesis investigates democratisation in South Korea. Unlike what structure- and process-oriented accounts of democratisation claim, democracy in South Korea was achieved through sustained popular action. The late-late development led by the authoritarian developmental state did not allow bourgeois or institutional politics to take the leading role for democracy. Social movements replaced them by making political opportunities and developing collective identity, their mobilising structures, and by using various discourses, repertoires, and framing. The structural context, movements' interaction with the state, and their strategies produced democracy with paradoxical results. Not only did they fail to achieve social democracy as their objective, but also the “founding election” for the transition to democracy in 1987 was exploited by elites. The paradoxical process of democratisation suppressed the reverse transition to reauthoritarianism on the one hand and constrained the popular sovereignty expressed through constitutionally legitimate massive collective action on the other hand. Though democratisation through collective action did not end “happily ever after,” it brought about democracy not only in institutional politics but also in noninstitutional politics. / Graduate

This study analyses a Swedish solidarity organisation, The Palestine Solidarity Association ofSweden. In original language Palestinagrupperna i Sverige, abbreviated PGS. Like other solidaritygroups the PGS was founded in sympathy with liberation movements during the decolonisation erain the 1960s. The PGS supports the Palestinian attempt to form an independent state partly on thesame land as Israel.Many of the groups were organised in a different manner than traditional leftist organisations. Thisstudy tries to apply the theory of Social Contentious Movements to the PSG. The general idea isthat new social groups mobilise in new ways and apply confrontational tactics towards the state.Renowned scholars in this field are Sidney Tarrow and Charles Tilly. Some of these groups wereformed transnationally and used new ways of communication like the internet.The PGS is active in one such transnational organisation called BDS, Boycott, Divestment andSanctions. PGS have put pressure on Swedish businesses to boycott the Israeli factory SodaStreamthat has been producing on occupied Palestinian territory still labelling the products Made inIsrael.The study shows support for the fact that the PGS has gradually turned from mainly radical critic toan organisation of development aid in Palestine. The main hostile counterpart is the Israeligovernment, which has promised to stop PGS-members entering the country because of itsengagement in the BDS.The results of the study gives support to explanation of its survival where other leftist solidaritygroups have ceased to exist due to its work with development aid.The PGS supports the rights of the Palestinian people. The interest of the people has beenarticulated in different ways of the leadership. The initial wholehearted support seems to havechanged to a more sceptical one. The support now is more directed towards the civil society.

o movimento de lésbicas, gays, bissexuais, travestis e transexuais (LGBT) e o movimento cristão pró-vida e pró-família se engajaram em um confronto político em torno das demandas do primeiro desses movimentos ao Governo Federal. Ao longo desse período – em especial, a partir do primeiro Governo Dilma Rousseff (2011-2014) – os resultados políticos desse confronto variaram, passando a favorecer em maior medida o movimento cristão conservador. Essa variação vai de encontro às expectativas de estudos sobre os impactos de oportunidades políticas sobre os resultados políticos de confrontos, na medida em que, ao longo do período analisado, em primeiro lugar, um mesmo partido se manteve a frente da chefia do Executivo e, em segundo lugar, ativistas LGBT se mantiveram ativos em ministérios e secretarias do Governo Federal. Essa tese tem como principal objetivo explicar as variações nos resultados políticos desse confronto. Para atingir esse objetivo, realizei entrevistas com ativistas desses movimentos, com burocratas ativistas LGBT que atuaram em órgãos do Governo Federal e com assessores ligados à Frente Parlamentar Evangélica (FPE) e à Frente Parlamentar de Defesa da Cidadania LGBT (FPLGBT). Também utilizei dados do Portal da Transparência e de outras fontes oficiais para mapear iniciativas e recursos do Governo Federal transferidos por meio de ações voltadas às demandas do movimento LGBT. Por fim, mobilizei dados do portal da Câmara dos Deputados e do Senado para identificar variações na presença de parlamentares da FPE em coalizões de governo, na sua ocupação de espaços estratégicos no Congresso Nacional e em seu uso de requerimentos de informação e de projetos de decreto legislativo. A partir da análise desses dados, identifiquei os mecanismos de oportunidade e ameaça que conformam o processo político de gerenciamento de coalizões governamentais e que impactaram os resultados políticos desse confronto. Os resultados dessa investigação sugerem que as dinâmicas e os resultados do confronto político entre a FPLGBT e a FPE no Congresso Nacional passaram a favorecer essa última frente a partir do primeiro Governo Dilma. Com suas vitórias nesse confronto, a FPE se consolidou como um jogador importante no processo de gerenciamento de coalizões de governo, algo inesperado para literatura sobre esse tema, que indica que os partidos políticos são os atores capazes de negociar acordos com a chefia do Executivo. Assim, a FPE passou pressionar a chefia do Executivo em direção aos seus interesses e preferências que, por sua vez, passou a intervir sobre sua burocracia de forma a obstaculizar a ação de ativistas LGBT que se engajavam em confrontos políticos na Esplanada dos Ministérios. Dessa forma, apesar de sua penetração em instituições políticas, burocratas ativistas LGBT não puderam manter o nível de produção de resultados políticos positivos para o movimento LGBT. A partir desses resultados, sugiro como principal contribuição dessa tese que, para explicar variações nos resultados políticos de confrontos políticos no Brasil, é necessário compreender como processos de gerenciamento de coalizões governamentais afetam oportunidades e ameaças que facilitam ou obstaculizam a ação de movimentos sociais. / During the first three Partido dos Trabalhadores’ federal administrations, the Brazilian lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders movement (LGBT) and pro-life and pro-family christian movement engaged in an episode of contention around the demands of the first of these movements to the Federal Government. During this period – and particularly since the first Rousseff administration (2011-2014) – the political outcomes of this episode of contention varied in favor of the christian conservative movement. This variation challenges the studies on the impacts of opportunities over the political outcomes of political contention, first, because the same party was chief Executive of the country during this period and, second, because LGBT activists maintained their actions inside federal state secretaries. This dissertation aims at explaining the variations of this political contention’s political outcomes. To achieve this goal, I interviewed those movements' activists, LGBT bureaucrat activists that worked in federal state secretaries, and parliamentary assistants related to the Frente Parlamentar Evangélica (FPE) and to the Frente Parlamentar de Defesa da Cidadania LGBT (FPLGBT). I also mobilized data from official sources to map state initiatives and investments on actions related to LGBT demands. Finally, I used data from the Câmara dos Deputados’ and the Senado’s web pages to identify variations in the number of FPE parliamentarians in government coalitions, in the occupation of strategic spaces in the National Congress by these parliamentarians, and in their use of two legislative instruments, the requerimentos de informação and the projetos de decreto legislativo. Analyzing this data, I identified the mechanisms of opportunity and threat which conform the political process of government coalition management and affected the political outcomes of this episode of contention. The data suggests that the dynamics and outcomes of the political contention between the FPLGBT and the FPE in the National Congress began to favor the last of these parliamentary fronts since the first Rousseff administration. With those victories, the FPE consolidated itself as an important player in the government coalition management political process, something unexpected for the literature on this subject, that suggests that political parties are the actors capable of negotiating agreements with the chief of the Executive. The FPE started to press the chief Executive toward its interests and preferences who, on its turn, stated to intervene over its own bureaucracy, creating obstacles for the actions of LGBT activists that were engaged in contentious politics in state secretaries. Therefore, despite of its penetration in political institutions, LGBT bureaucrat activists could not afford to maintain their level of production of political outcomes for the LGBT movement. From this data, as the main contribution of this dissertation, I suggest that, in order to explain the variation of political outcomes of contentious politics in Brazil, it is necessary to understand how government coalition management processes affect the opportunities and threats which facilitate or hinder the action of social movements.

L'objectif principal de ce travail est d'expliquer et de comprendre les relations existantes entre les territorialités en compétition dans l’espace cisjordanien et les mobilisations de groupes et d’activistes engagés dans la résistance populaire contre l’occupation israélienne entre 2005 et 2016. Les territorialités prises en considération dans ce travail rassemblent celles des acteurs israéliens de l’occupation, des militants palestiniens étudiés dans cette thèse et regroupés autour d’un objet construit que nous avons nommé la « RP » ainsi que celles des multiples agents politiques et sociaux présents dans ce conflit.Pour cela, nous adoptons une approche scientifique interactionniste propre à l’étude des relations de pouvoir, des politiques de conflits et de la sociologie des mobilisations. Nous accordons une place importante à la description de la situation de colonisation de peuplement et au décryptage de la configuration (au sens éliassien du terme) sociopolitique cisjordanienne afin d’analyser les interactions conflictuelles qui engagent les mobilisations de nos enquêtés. De manière générale et en relation avec notre objet d’étude, il apparaît que l’entrée par la notion de territorialité est tout à fait heuristique pour traiter notre problématique. Elle permet aussi d’expliquer et de comprendre les mobilisations de nos acteurs de la RP à partir de l’étude contextualisée de multiples processus politiques. / The main goal of this research is to explain and understand the existing relationships between the territorialities in competition in the West Bank and the mobilizations of groups and individual activists involved in popular resistance against the territorial occupation between 2005 and 2016. The territorialities analysed in this work are threefold: those of the agents of the Israeli occupation; those of the Palestinian activists examined and defined in this thesis under our proposed term “PR” (Popular Resistance); and the territorialities of the various existing political and social entities in this conflict.To pursue this goal, we adopt an interactionist approach well-suited to the study of power relations, contentious politics and social movements. We choose to focus in particular on describing the situation of settler colonization and on the interpretation of the socio-political configuration in the West Bank (based on Norbert Elias’ theories), as these are central in order to analyze the conflictual interactions that motivate our interviewees to take part in the mobilization. In general, and as concerns our subject of study, the notion of territoriality appears to offer a heuristic approach to address our topic. It also enables us to explain and understand the mobilizations of our PR actors on the basis of a contextualized study of multiple political processes.

This thesis investigates US state level politics framing of the BLM protests during 2020, by inductively identifying frames and then proceeding to study if and on what grounds securitization occurs in these. Press statements, interviews and documents from eight Mayors and Governors in six of the states where the protests have been the most prominent are analyzed. From this material, four frames have been identified: the alienated outsider frame, the constructive rage frame, the limited guardian frame, and the desecuritizing frame. Recent developments in securitization theory investigate human life and dignity as a reference object, making a case for integrating humanitarianism in terms of grounds for justifying extraordinary measures. Three grounds for securitization are investigated empirically in the identified frames: state, social and humanitarian security. The study concludes that whilst both state security and to a lesser degree humanitarian security are detected in the identified frames, societal security seems to be the most prominent. This suggests that large-scale identities are the most common reference objects in the treated context. Further research is encouraged, especially in terms of distinguishing potential frame alignment processes by looking at a greater number of states over a longer period of time.

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When youth novels were first written, Afrikaans speaking adolescents spent their time reading the original and absorbing youth novels then available. These suited their psychological and environmental development and they could identify with the language and style used in these novels. The contents were a representation of a world which they knew and in which they could feel secure. Although authors often dealt with issues relevant to the adolescent world, the plot reflected a secure and nurturing world where the readers and their life experiences were taken into account. In recent years the adolescent world has changed dramatically from a secure environment to a more exposed one, posing the question whether contemporary Afrikaans youth novels have retained the same traits mentioned earlier and answer to the same norms. The value of literature should never be underestimated; it can develop the imaginative skills and moral values of adolescent readers. Also, it has become clear that adolescents have a great need for reading material that deals with relevant issues. The main focus of this study is characterization and development of identity in selected youth novels by Barrie Hough, viz. My kat word herfs, Vlerkdans and Skilpoppe as revealed in textual analysis and empirical research. The literature study focuses on developmental psychology and the reading expectations of the adolescent, character development according to some narrative theories, e.g. reader response criticism and intertextuality theories. The main objective of this study is to analyze, interpret and evaluate the above three youth novels in order to establish whether or not the contemporary adolescent can identify with these specific stories. It has been found that the adolescent reader in the early years of the twenty first century is able to identify with the contemporary youth novels such as those by Barrie Hough. Although young readers do not want to steer clear of contentious themes and issues in youth novels, it seems that they still prefer evergreen classical topics and themes. This suggests that the modern adolescent is still positive about life and aspires to attain goodness and moral strength. / Thesis (M.A. (Afrikaans and Dutch))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2006