The Belarusian Maidan in 2006
| Titel: | The Belarusian Maidan in 2006 : a new social movement approach to the tent camp protest in Minsk / Vasil Navumau |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Frankfurt am Main; Bern; Bruxelles; New York; Oxford; Warszawa; Wien : Peter Lang Edition, [2015] |
| Umfang: | 260 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 21 cm x 14.8 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Polish studies in culture, nations and politics ; vol. 5 |
| Andere Ausgaben: |
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe: Navumau, Vasil. The Belarusian Maidan in 2006
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| ISBN: | 9783631659908 ; 3631659903 |
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- Acknowledgments
- p. 11
- Introduction
- p. 13
- Part 1
- A Portrait of Social Activism in Contemporary Belarus
- Chapter I
- Before the Tent Camp in 2006
- p. 23
- 1
- The Communist Legacy: Mass Activism from Late Perestroika to the Fall of the USSR
- p. 23
- i
- Introductory Remarks: A Comparison with Poland in the Transition Period
- p. 23
- ii
- The Perestroika Crisis, Chernobyl and Actions of 1988-1990
- p. 31
- iii
- Street Politics and the Collapse of the USSR: Actions of 1991
- p. 42
- 2
- From the Rise to the Stagnation of Activism 1992-2005
- p. 47
- i
- The Democratic Opening and the Rise of Lukashenko to Power (1992-1995)
- p. 47
- ii
- "Hot Spring" and "Hot Autumn" of 1996: The Struggle against the Establishment of the Union State
- p. 53
- iii
- The Routinization of the Mass Protests (1997-2000)
- p. 61
- iv
- The Decline of Protest Potential (2001-2005)
- p. 72
- Chapter II
- The Tent Camp as Evidence of Social Activism
- p. 85
- 1
- The Background and Data of the Tent Camp
- p. 85
- i
- General Background and Data Sources
- p. 85
- ii
- Internet Development in Belarus by 2006
- p. 87
- 2
- The Emergence of the Tent Camp
- p. 92
- i
- The Four Days of the Tent Camp
- p. 93
- ii
- The Peculiar Traits of the Belarusian Tent Camp in 2006
- p. 103
- Part 2
- The Tent Camp as a Social and Political Laboratory for Deleuzian Concepts
- Chapter I
- Theoretical Tools for Analyzing Contemporary Social Movements
- p. 111
- 1
- Social Processes in Network Dimension: The Directions of Analysis
- p. 111
- i
- Research in the New Social Movement
- p. 111
- ii
- Network as a Social Metaphor: Towards New Sociality in the Context of Globalization Processes
- p. 117
- iii
- The Deleuzian Concept of the Virtual: Beyond the Nodes
- p. 125
- 2
- Radical Democracy vs. Deleuzian Concepts
- p. 134
- i
- Rhizomorphic Collective Identities of Contemporary Social Movements
- p. 135
- ii
- The Deployment of Radical Democracy on the Internet
- p. 139
- Chapter II
- Molarization and Molecular Processes of the Tent Camp
- p. 149
- Introductory Remarks
- p. 149
- 1
- The Applicability of Western Theories to the Belarusian Case
- p. 152
- 2
- Symbolic Strategies Used by the Movement
- p. 167
- 3
- The Representation (Molarizaion) of the Tent Camp by the State Media: The Analysis of Sovetskaya Belorussiya's Hegemonic Discourse
- p. 172
- 4
- Molarization Processes; Protest, Bureaucracy, Resolution
- p. 181
- 5
- Analyzing the Molecular Processes of the Tent Camp
- p. 193
- i
- Flash Mobs
- p. 193
- ii
- Slogans
- p. 198
- iii
- The Intensification of Political Problems
- p. 201
- Summary: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Protest
- Organization via the Internet Revealed by the Tent Camp
- p. 207
- Final Remarks
- p. 209
- Bibliography
- p. 217
- Appendix
- p. 233
