I dagens värld har länder ett tätt sammanlänkat ekonomiskt samarbete. Detta innebär att ifall ett land drabbas av en finanskris, kommer även andra länder att falla likt dominobrickor, in i en väntande finanskris. Just detta skedde år 2008 och 2011, då ett flertal av världens länder drabbades av en stor finansiell kris. I skuggan av dessa kriser växte en social rörelse fram vars syfte var att uppmärksamma människor om vad som, enligt rörelsen, egentligen hade hänt. Rörelsen som växte fram är känd som Occupy-rörelsen. Denna studie har som mål att undersöka hur två grupper inom rörelsen skapar legitimitet för ett alternativt perspektiv på finansiella kriser men även hur de vill lösa pågående och framtida ekonomiska kriser. För att detta ska bli möjligt användes Snow & Benfords inramningsteorier. Enligt Snow & Benford ska en inramning ses som en strukturell bas av en persons perspektiv och värderingar inom ett policyområde. Genom att använda sig av olika inramningar kommer personer att skapa olika lösningar samt strategier för att lösa ett problem. Snow & Benford anser att detta perspektiv även går att använda på sociala rörelser. För att kunna göra denna studie studerade jag Occupy Wall Street samt Occupy Stockholms Internetsidor. Min studie visar ett tydligt resultat. Grupperna anser inte att finanskriserna är ett problem i sig, utan ett symptom. Finanskriserna är ett symptom av ett underskott. Ett demokratiskt underskott.

The Occupy Wall Street Movement on September 17, 2011 that involved public protest and the occupation of Zuccotti Park in New York City’s financial district, is an important example of mass public dissent in American history. The conflict that lies at the heart of the protests is between two parties identified in the data as the 99% and the 1%. An abductive, grounded research strategy to explore the language used in interpreting the circumstances and details of the event, is used in conjunction with a theoretical framework provided by C. Wright Mills (1959) and Jock Young (2011), to uncover the motivations behind the 99%’s decision to protest. What is revealed upon completion of the analysis are two broad motivations for public protest by the 99% related to issues of fairness and access, set within an historical context of growing dissent against corrupt economic institutions and the governments that sustain them.

O presente trabalho surge com o intuito de problematizar os Movimentos Occupy, iniciados em 2010 com a Primavera Árabe como um espaço de utopias, utilizando a psicanálise como método de interrogação do sujeito, onde analiso os movimentos de juventude no contemporâneo. Junto com esta problematização, faço uma reflexão sobre de que formas a própria psicanálise pode compor uma vocação utópica, enquanto ferramenta política, a partir de sua visão acerca do sujeito e da proposição de uma ética. Nele, proponho-me a analisar de que forma os regimes econômicos lapidaram as subjetividades e sua contrapartida a partir dos movimentos de ocupação que estão se dando nas ruas, pensando a rua como espaço simbólico de utopias enlaçado nesta mesma ética. / This paper appears in order to discuss the Occupy Movements, begun in 2010 with the Arab Spring, as a space of utopias using psychoanalysis as a method of interrogation of the subject and the youth movements in the contemporary. Along with this questioning, I reflect on the ways in which psychoanalysis comprises a utopian vocation as a political tool from a new sight over the subject and an ethical proposition. In it, I propose to examine how the economic regimes lapidated subjectivities and its counterpart from the Occupy movements that are taking place in the streets, thinking the street as a symbolic space of utopias ensnared in this ethic.

O presente trabalho surge com o intuito de problematizar os Movimentos Occupy, iniciados em 2010 com a Primavera Árabe como um espaço de utopias, utilizando a psicanálise como método de interrogação do sujeito, onde analiso os movimentos de juventude no contemporâneo. Junto com esta problematização, faço uma reflexão sobre de que formas a própria psicanálise pode compor uma vocação utópica, enquanto ferramenta política, a partir de sua visão acerca do sujeito e da proposição de uma ética. Nele, proponho-me a analisar de que forma os regimes econômicos lapidaram as subjetividades e sua contrapartida a partir dos movimentos de ocupação que estão se dando nas ruas, pensando a rua como espaço simbólico de utopias enlaçado nesta mesma ética. / This paper appears in order to discuss the Occupy Movements, begun in 2010 with the Arab Spring, as a space of utopias using psychoanalysis as a method of interrogation of the subject and the youth movements in the contemporary. Along with this questioning, I reflect on the ways in which psychoanalysis comprises a utopian vocation as a political tool from a new sight over the subject and an ethical proposition. In it, I propose to examine how the economic regimes lapidated subjectivities and its counterpart from the Occupy movements that are taking place in the streets, thinking the street as a symbolic space of utopias ensnared in this ethic.

O presente trabalho surge com o intuito de problematizar os Movimentos Occupy, iniciados em 2010 com a Primavera Árabe como um espaço de utopias, utilizando a psicanálise como método de interrogação do sujeito, onde analiso os movimentos de juventude no contemporâneo. Junto com esta problematização, faço uma reflexão sobre de que formas a própria psicanálise pode compor uma vocação utópica, enquanto ferramenta política, a partir de sua visão acerca do sujeito e da proposição de uma ética. Nele, proponho-me a analisar de que forma os regimes econômicos lapidaram as subjetividades e sua contrapartida a partir dos movimentos de ocupação que estão se dando nas ruas, pensando a rua como espaço simbólico de utopias enlaçado nesta mesma ética. / This paper appears in order to discuss the Occupy Movements, begun in 2010 with the Arab Spring, as a space of utopias using psychoanalysis as a method of interrogation of the subject and the youth movements in the contemporary. Along with this questioning, I reflect on the ways in which psychoanalysis comprises a utopian vocation as a political tool from a new sight over the subject and an ethical proposition. In it, I propose to examine how the economic regimes lapidated subjectivities and its counterpart from the Occupy movements that are taking place in the streets, thinking the street as a symbolic space of utopias ensnared in this ethic.

Submitted by Irene Nascimento (irene.kessia@ufpe.br) on 2016-07-21T18:47:50Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissertação de Mestrado - Guilherme Amorim.pdf: 691520 bytes, checksum: faf9df2d03171350e2b7678a0b3638e3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-21T18:47:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 1232 bytes, checksum: 66e71c371cc565284e70f40736c94386 (MD5) Dissertação de Mestrado - Guilherme Amorim.pdf: 691520 bytes, checksum: faf9df2d03171350e2b7678a0b3638e3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-02 / CNPQ / This article investigates the influence of broadband Internet availability in the occurrence of events of civil unrest, both with theory and empirical evidence. We first expand a recent model of protests considering the hypothesis that the Internet sets an environment for communication and information exchange that boosts collective dissatisfaction towards unfair policies. We then use collected data on the locations of 2011’s Occupy Movement in the United States to estimate the impact of one extra Internet Service Provider on the probability of evidencing protests in a given location. To identify the effect of broadband provision, we use an instrumental variable approach based on topographic elevation as a source of exogenous variations in the cost of building and maintaining cable infrastructure. As an alternative approach, we also use identification through heteroskedasticity, which does not rely on exclusion restrictions. In accordance with our theoretical predictions, our results show that the availability of broadband services during the time of the Occupy protests was greatly associated with the occurrence of such events. / Este artigo investiga a influência que o acesso à rede de Internet banda larga pode exercer na ocorrência de eventos de inquietação civil, através de uma argumentação teórica e de evidências empíricas. Primeiro, expandimos um recente modelo de decisão sobre o ato de protestar, considerando a hipótese de que a Internet define um ambiente para comunicação e troca de informações que aumentaria a insatisfação coletiva contra políticas injustas. Em seguida, utilizamos dados recolhidos sobre os locais das manifestações relacionadas ao Movimento Occupy nos Estados Unidos em 2011 para estimar o impacto que um provedor de serviços de Internet a mais exerceria sobre a probabilidade de evidenciar protestos em um determinado local. Para identificar o efeito do fornecimento de banda larga, usamos uma abordagem de variável instrumental utilizando elevação topográfica como fonte de variações exógenas no custo de construção e manutenção de infraestrutura de Internet a cabo. Como abordagem alternativa, também realizamos identificação através de heterocedasticidade, que não depende de restrições de exclusão. Em concordância com nossas previsões teóricas, nossos resultados mostram que a disponibilidade de serviços de banda larga durante a época dos protestos do Movimento Occupy esteve fortemente associada com a ocorrência de tais eventos.

The Occupy movement has spread over hundreds of cities nationwide and over 1,500 cities around the world. The movement is formed around a common goal, which is to protest the way government actions or inactions have rooted widespread discontent. The Occupy movement has encountered opposition from the cities and counties where it is located. Arrests have been made for a number of violations of city and county codes including resistance to police orders and disorderly conduct charges. In our country, freedom of speech and the right to protest have been regarded as inalienable rights. The question becomes how to balance the rights of the people involved against the rights and obligations of the government. This thesis will provide an in depth look at the issues being discussed in cases and hearings involving the Occupy movement. The key issue plaintiffs argue is that their First Amendment rights are being infringed on. In January 2012, both international human rights and United States civil liberties experts at seven law school clinics across the country met and formed the Protest and Assembly Rights Project. The project investigated the United States response to Occupy Wall Street. This thesis will discuss and recap some of their findings. In addition, it will analyze the Federal Constitutional restrictions to protestor's rights and the cases that arise on the grounds of these restrictions, as well as examine how the courts interpret the First Amendment and clarify these issues along with defining protestor's constitutional rights. Based upon the Constitutional rights and legitimate restrictions, the thesis will make appropriate recommendations on the limits for both the protestors and the local government.

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Thesis advisor: William Stanwood / Television news provides information to audiences that help them create meaning from the world around them. This paper explores the relationship between television news and social protest, specifically how television news frames might shape audience perception of social protest as a form of democratic participation. This study utilizes a textual analysis of news stories from NBC, CBS, and Al-Jazeera English in order to compare coverage of social protest in the United States and internationally. Two separate protest issues were studied: Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring protests in Tahrir Square in Egypt. Using framing as a theoretical framework, I utilized the three codes of the protest paradigm – narrative structure, official sources, and invocation of public opinion – to analyze thirty news stories about Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring. Two codes – the circus and disorganization – emerged during the research. With support from other relevant scholarship, this study concludes that United States network television news acts as a voice of hegemony in the coverage of social protest, framing protest in ways that benefit elites and uphold the status quo. Protest is often delegitimized by news frames that portray protest as a violent activity and protestors as counter-cultural, social outsiders. Al-Jazeera English, in contrast, provides a counter-hegemonic perspective that legitimizes protest as a form of democratic participation used by a diverse cross-section of citizens. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2013. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Communication Honors Program. / Discipline: Communication.

This thesis explores questions of politics and public space through an examination of the experiences of people involved in Occupy protest camps and local officials who were tasked with managing the protests in Eugene, OR and Madison, WI. Using assemblage as an organizing theoretical framework, this work identifies the actors involved in the production of Occupy protest camps and traces the trajectories of two Occupy protests from their beginnings to eviction day. It highlights the role of space in the protests, the ways in which protesters negotiated with local authorities for long-term use of public spaces previously prohibited by law, and some of the factors that contributed to the eviction of the protest camps. Finally, it seeks to reframe the debate on public space and conceptualizes public space as an assemblage that is continually made, unmade, and remade through the interactions of diverse, heterogeneous actors. / 10000-01-01