Probably more than most people want to know, but the post shows trends in Black protests about policing 1994-2010 for specific issue clusters, events, participants, and articles by coverage type. #contentiousky 3/3
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Here is the link to my blog post about Black protests about police 1994-2010. Mainstream newswires gave more attention to fatal incidents. Black newspapers gave more attention to other policing issues including brutality in general. #contentiousky 2/3
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Bar graph. Horizontal axis years. Vertical axis number of events. Colors show type of news coverage: NW only, NW & BN, BN outstate, BN instate. General pattern is a peak 1999-2001, low point 2004, rise after. Tables in the blog post linked in the next skeet in the thread provide numerical representation of this and other graphs in the blog post.
Partly because I had to pull the plots out of an article I'm revising, I created a blog post showing graphs of counts of Black protests about policing 1999-2010 by news coverage type (mainstream newswire vs. Black newspapers local and not). Link to blog post in next skeet. #contentiousky 1/3
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How relying on competing and incomplete narratives in news sources & failure to treat media coverage itself as an event distorts understanding of collective action processes in the Jena Six protests of 2007. Preprint of forthcoming book chapter. #commsky #contentiousky 1/3
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#contentiousky David S. Meyer's posts about social movements are always instructive. This one is about the call for nuclear testing. David is a long time veteran of the peace movement including the nuclear freeze movement.
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I am remembering how the Tea Party protests in the Obama administration (2009-2010) were covered and thinking about how that coverage compares to the No Kings protests. #contentiousky
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A model for democratic activism for political scientists, by my colleague at #barilanuniversity, Liron Lavi and distinguished coauthors.
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Yesterday, the Taliban cut off the internet in Afghanistan. For now, mobile internet & Starlink are functioning, but the impact on flight operations, banking, education & health services is already severe and causing dismay among many Afghans.
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Phooey forgot to tag #contentiousky re geography effects on protest impacts
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@asa-cbsm.bsky.social #contentiousky #CBSM2025 🧵 Some take-aways about protest and social movements. (1) Protest movements have opponents, who will fight back if they lose, things are never settled. (2) You protest when you are in a losing position, of course protest does not always win 1/
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From 12-16 July 2025 our team attended the 28th World Congress of Political Science @ipsa.org in Seoul and presented our project and research there. Thank you for the comments and interesting discussions!
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Our team is at @ipsa.org conference in Seoul this week and presenting on protests during insurgencies, Afghan youth and the success and failure of autocratization
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Iranian and Afghan activists are protesting the Iranian government‘s treatment of Afghan migrants since start of the war with Israel in an open letter. In the past week, Iran has increasingly arrested Afghans and ordered them to leave the country.
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Meet the third speaker of our panel discussion on key issues, challenges and opportunities in studying Central and Eastern Europe today:
@tanyalokot.bsky.social, Associate Professor in Digital Media and Society at Dublin City University.
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Please help share this opportunity for PhD candidates and early-career scholars working on Belarus
#polisky #IRsky #diktatorsky #contentiousky #EUsky
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Would this "hook" you? "How activist networks, progressive and Black media, bloggers, and grassroots organizations mobilized a historic protest against small town racial injustice." (I'm supposed to provide a 20 word hook for my Jena 6 piece.) #contentiousky #sociology
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In the background, there is the skyline of Kabul with mountains and trees. In the foreground, it is written: "Part 2: Protests in government-controlled areas
The background is the same as in the previous photo. In the foreground, it is written: "The second part of our project examines protests in areas controlled by the government before 2021. The government relied on international support which could sometimes make big public protests effective."
The background is the same as in the previous photo. In the foreground, it is written: "After 2021, the protesters had to address their demands to the new Taliban government. What approach did the Taliban take towards these protesters? Did they make concessions to gain new supporters? Or were they afraid of continued loyalties to the old government?"
How did the new Taliban government deal with protests in areas previously controlled by the internationally recognised government? Did they make concessions in these areas to win over constituents? Or did they remain wary of possibly continuing loyalties to the old government?
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In 1992, New York police rioted in protest against attempts to regulate their conduct using racist images against then-mayor David Dinkins. Re-upping a post from 2020 with recent updates. #protest #blackhistory #contentiousky #sociology 🗃️ www.ssc.wisc.edu/soc/racepoli...
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HEY! Want to catch up on your social movement reading now teaching is over? #protest #contentiousky
Check out our FOUR Special Issues of 2024:
4) Mobilizing during COVID-19
3) Imagined Futures in Social Movements
2) Contentious Data
1) Climate Activism
www.tandfonline.com/journals/csm...
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In the background, there's a photo of a hilly Afghan landscape with trees. In the foreground is written: "Part 1: Protests in rebel-controlled areas"
In the background, there is the same photo as on the previous slide. In the foreground is written: "One half of our project examines protests in areas controlled by the Taliban before 2021. The rebels relied on support from the population and, therefore, had incentives for concessions. However, they only controlled a small area limiting their influence.
In the background, there's the same photo as on the previous slides. In the foreground is written: "How did the opportunity structure for protests change after the Taliban takeover in 2021? Did the protesters in previously Taliban-controlled areas benefit from their ties to the new Taliban government? Or did the new Taliban government no longer need the support from the population and become more repressive?
Did protesters in previous rebel strongholds benefit from their ties to the Taliban after 2021? Or did the Taliban government adopt a repressive response to protests after 2021 because it no longer relied on support from the population?
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tagging #contentiousky #sociology in case you are interested.
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In the background, there is a map of West Asia. In the foreground, a question is written: What are we researching in the AFPRO project?
Same background as the previous slide. Text in the foreground: From 2001 to 2021, international actors were active in Afghanistan fighting a war against the Taliban. During their insurgency, the Taliban relied on the support of local populations to govern the areas they controlled.
Same background as the previous slide. Text in the foreground: Different protests took place during that time. The opportunity structures differed in areas controlled by the Taliban and those controlled by the government. The Taliban relied on the support of the population to govern, the government needed the support of international actors.
Same background as on the previous slides. Text in the foreground: In 2021, the Taliban took control over Afghanistan leading to the sudden retreat of international troops. The former rebels have since been in charge of the state’s institutions. How has this affected the opportunity structures for protests in Afghanistan?
The Taliban's policies towards civil society have become more salient after taking control of the state. But how did they govern in provinces under their control even before 2021? What changed in 2021? And what does this have to do with protest movements in Afghanistan?
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It's not just that we have no evidence that, without a world-historic mass mobilization, philanthropists can save us from climate catastrophe and democratic backsliding.
It's also that we have no evidence they even want to.
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This potential legal attack on the nonprofit sector in the US fits with the global administrative assault on NGOs and civil society known as closing civic space, where leaders use anti-NGO laws to create barriers to entry, funding, advocacy for organizations. #nonprofitsky #polisky #contentiousky
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In the foreground, the research question is written: "How did the coming into power of the Taliban change the opportunity structures for protests in Afghanistan?". In the background are silhouettes of people walking through Kabul in the evening as well as silhouettes of some buildings and trees.
Our research project investigates how the Taliban's takeover of the Afghan government has changed the opportunity structures (protest tactics and frequencies) for protests. Afghanistan is an interesting case study because it constitutes one of the few successful rebel movements.
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