01:790:103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Security Dilemma, African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–1968), Consociationalism

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: 01:790:103
• Professor: Barea Sinno

Document Summary

Contentious politics, social movements, political violence and revolution. Contentious politics- is political activity that is at least in part beyond institutional bounds. Not framed within the institution so it is acting outside the frame of the institutional bound. Online communications erode social capital: social capital observers fear online communication with the road social capital by isolating groups thereby limiting their likely participation in social movements and threatening the continued existence of movement themselves. Important role of media: an important role in the 2011 event known as the arab springs as i said earlier more recently the yellow vest movement in france in 2018 and 19 made active use of social media. Operate at national and global level: contentious politics can occur to national activism; The seattle protest at the 1999 meeting of the wto the world trade organization was the 1st of a series of protests targeting global organizations like the world bank.