This research concerns the massive and protracted series of protest events that took place in Indonesia in 1997 and 1998. Triggered by a deep economic crisis, these protest events transformed Indonesia into the third largest democratic country in the world. The purposes of the r…
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Music constitutes a key medium through which political actors in Jerusalem embody, perform, and negotiate competing paradigms of nationhood and their visions of the future of Jerusalem. Among the Jewish population, many occurrences of public protest involve the intersection of J…
The central goal of this project is to better understand the relationship between civil war and repression at each phase of the "civil-war life-cycle," which is composed of the escalation and onset of civil war, the war itself, and the post-war period. The project then seeks to …
By the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the Riff province had earned a reputation as one of the most intractable and inaccessible regions of the Sharifian Empire. The outbreak of the Riffian War (1921-1926), under the leadership of Abdel Karim El-Khattabi and the …
The main objective of this study is to provide an in-depth analysis the association between a set of social structural factors and the certain types of social movement events in Turkey. The changing nature and significance of social movements over time and space makes this study…
Though studies of collective action date back to at least the 1890's, in recent years there have been a number of developments in the social identity and collective action literatures clarifying how and why collective action emerges. Bandura's concepts of self-efficacy and colle…
This study examines the conditions under which violent state response to protest is more likely to take place, drawing upon an original and systematic database of protest events of Arab citizens in Israel between 1990 and 2001. A quantitative analysis of this database has reveal…
This dissertation examines Palestinian nationalism in the West Bank and Gaza, focusing upon the role of students in political organizing. Palestinian students are an important adjunct to the nationalist struggle. They joined a complement of forces—including labor women's, profes…
This thesis examines the concepts of geographic scale and place as they pertain to protest events. Much of the literature in social movements theory has yet to address geographic issues in a specific and meaningful way. This thesis uses comparison in order to demonstrate the imp…
Constructing Abolition: Theaters of Protest in American Antislavery Movements provides a comparative historical analysis of the political and social process behind organized movements for change. I trace the historical evolution of the American antislavery movement from the begi…
This dissertation focuses on slaves and peasants as self-consciousness actors in northwestern Sierra Leone between 1896 to 1956. During this period, which covers almost the entire duration of British colonial rule in the region, these subaltern groups used covert and violent act…
My dissertation investigates plays written and directed by Jalila Baccar and Fadhel Jaïbi--recognized as two of the most influential actor-director-playwright pair in contemporary Tunisian theater. This is the first research that addresses the drama of Baccar and Jaïbi, a partne…
Extending research of framing anti-war protest is framed in the public sphere, this study examines theatre critics' reviews and viewers' responses to Tim Robbins' anti-war play Embedded . My research examines how two groups of publics interpreted Embedded : (1) professional thea…
This dissertation explores how a coalition for political reform may be forged in a regime like Malaysia's that combines democratic institutions with authoritarian constraints. I conclude that in such a non-liberal democracy, both civil and political society are vital to coalitio…
My dissertation covers the 2005-2006 resistance movement staged by detainees at our military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in which hundreds of detainees took collective action against detention conditions and mistreatment. In reconstructing the history of this mov…
Players and Arenas brings together a diverse group of experts to examine the interactions between political protestors and the many strategic players they encounter, such as cultural institutions, religious organizations, and the mass media--as well as potential allies, competit…
