Tag: qualitative research
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Protest Event Reports (PERs): A Method for Qualitative Analysis
Qualitative research into how street protests are performed and framed, especially across multiple events within a set time and geographic space, requires detailed data on past protests that is tantamount to documentary reconstruction. Whereas there are various ways to qualitatively reconstruct a single or a few protest events, the options are limited for a larger…
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Every protest is an imagined future
Protests often emerge from a mix of grievance and hope – i.e., dissatisfaction with the present with an aim to change it for the better. Whereas street protests are commonly understood as physical, dynamic, interactive, and collective expressions of objection and dissent, less common is the idea that this form of collective action is future-oriented;…