Sökning: "Gilets Jaunes"
Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade orden Gilets Jaunes.
1. Police violence and the state: The negotiation of the boundaries between legitimated and illegitimate police violence in the context of the gilets jaunes protests
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Rättssociologiska institutionenSammanfattning : The French gilets jaunes (yellow vest) protest movement, sparked by a planned carbon fuel tax in 2018 is marked by numerous injuries and mutilations of protesters by police, and characterised by a shift towards a more confrontational protest policing strategy. Viewing protest policing and police violence as interlinked with political processes, this thesis explores the question of how the boundaries between sanctioned and unsanctioned police violence are (re-)negotiated in the intersections of law (enforcement) and politics in the specific context of the gilets jaunes movement. LÄS MER
2. “End of the world, end of the month, same struggle”: On depoliticized transitions and emancipatory sustainability transformations - A case study of The French Citizens’ Convention on Climate
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/LUCSUSSammanfattning : Reflecting an emerging trend in democratic innovation to tackle complex socio-ecological challenges, the French Citizens’ Convention on Climate (CCC) was initiated in response to climate protests and the Yellow Vests movement to define measures for achieving a socially just 40% reduction in GHG-emissions. Approaching the CCC as both an outcome and site of hegemonic struggle, I apply social movements theory and document analysis methods to investigate its genealogy, policy proposals, influence on decision-making, and evaluate its potential for sustainability transformations. LÄS MER
3. Media Portrayals of Protests : A Discursive Analysis of Newspaper Articles on Gilet Jaune protests in France
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/EuropastudierSammanfattning : The way conflicts are understood depends on how identities are conveyed through media. Newspapers’ reports of the Gilets Jaunes protests in France during the autumn 2018 are no exception. One factor that can influence which choices are made in describing identity, is the distance between the place of publication and the location of events. LÄS MER
4. Den enda vägens politik: En kritisk idéanalys av Gula Västarnas krav om framtiden
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : Since November of 2018, the city of Paris has undergone dramatic disruption over political conflict between The Yellow Vests (Gilets Jaunes) and the French government. The Yellow Vest-movement has managed to mobilize thousands of people on a weekly basis, initially protesting against tax reforms that was believed to be especially detrimental towards those economically vulnerable and/or of rural residence. LÄS MER
5. Who are the Gilets jaunes?
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : This study has two purposes. The first one is to explain in what consists the originality of the Gilets jaunes movement. This is done by comparing it to four earlier French protest movements. It is found that the original feature of the movement is its lack of organization and refusal to take political sides. LÄS MER
