What explains African protests amid rising prosperity? I show that the main cause of the increasingly frequent urban protests that we observe in 21st-century Africa is economic inequality despite substantial economic growth. Using cross-national statistical analyses of 38 Africa…
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This thesis examines the process of engagement in nonviolentcollective action. It is a cross- cultural study -using the methods of life history interview, participantobservation and archival research - of twelve individualsdrawn from three anti-militarist movements that emerged …
This thesis will examine the role of Gorleben in the broader context of the German anti-nuclear movements taking place between the 1970s and the 2010s through various images, posters, and other forms of media. This work will show that the protests taking place in the Gorleben ar…
Universities across the country have been forced to confront how they remember and memorialize the past on their campuses as students and community members protest building names and statues. This qualitative case study used Bolman and Deal’s four-frame theory as a framework to …
Due to its workings as a global financial nexus, activists critical of capitalism have used the City of London to stage a number of large-scale direct actions since the 1983-84 Stop the City protests. By examining protest at this renowned site of intensified observation, I argue…
An Obligation to do One's Best is an exploration of myth and reality at home in a small southern town. The artist is calling into question whose history we are referencing when it comes to art, economics, and culture. In these liminal landscapes, the viewer/spectator becomes a c…
Modern technology has fundamentally changed the way individuals and groups organize and share information for mobilization. Specifically, social networking sites empower individuals, facilitate unification of like-minded parties, and serve as communication and coordination mecha…
Homophily—our tendency to form ties with people like ourselves—is a near-universal feature of human social networks. Scholars often assume that ties between members of different racial, ethnic, or religious groups will not only be rarer but also weaker on average than ties withi…