Male leaders have often used women's bodies and dress as a means to regulate their access to formal politics, including to national parliaments. Through an analysis of women's activism surrounding the expansion of headscarved women's access to the parliament during the 2011 parliamentary elections in Turkey, I argue that pious women's public protests against discriminatory actions of male leaders towards headscarved women's candidacy challenged the hegemonic symbolism surrounding the headscarf as articulated by both secularist and conservative religious forces. The consequent discourse shift offered a new perspective on women's sexuality in the public arena and brought secular and pious women's rights groups, who rarely saw eye to eye with one another, closer as they realised that imposed dress codes are vehicles for their exclusion from formal politics.
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Mona Tajali
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2014
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 72–90
Attack Frames
Framing Processes, Collective Identity, and Emotion in the Men’s Rights Subreddit
Chelsea Starr
investigate how framing processes operate in an online movement where there is no formal social movement organization. More specifically, I investigate the frames prevalent in the men’s right activists (MRAs) online space. I also consider the role of anger and
Catherine Mei Ling Wong
In East Asia, climate change as a policy concern has been a late developer. The last decade, however, has seen the mainstreaming of environmental issues in core policy circles, but in the form of market-friendly, pro-industrial development framings. This paper problematizes such environmental framings by looking at the politics of state-led ecological modernization and the institutional reforms that have emerged out of it. It argues that State-led ecological modernization necessarily leads to environmental framings that are too narrowly defined by state and industrial interests - hence the focus on carbon emissions, energy security and the impact on Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The State-driven assumption that society can modernize itself out of its environmental crisis through greater advancements in technological development also ignores the fact that this process often leads to the creation of other environmental and social problems, which in turn undermines the fundamental goals of stability and sustainability. Civil society needs to be given greater space in the policy and framing processes in order to have a more balanced policy approach to environmental reform in a more equitable way.
Benjamin Abrams and Giovanni A. Travaglino
behavior. In “Attack Frames: Framing Processes, Collective Identity, and Emotion in the Men’s Rights Subreddit,” Starr examines the memetic aspects of the online men’s rights movement by means of a carefully coded analysis of 435 memes posted on reddit
Translating the Bottom-Up Frame
Everyday Negotiations of the European Union's Rural Development Programme LEADER in Germany
Oliver Müller, Ove Sutter, and Sina Wohlgemuth
’ ( Benford and Snow 2000: 614 ). Even though LEADER is anything but a social movement campaign, it aims at restructuring political and everyday practices. Therefore, we apply the tasks of framing processes usually consisting of ‘diagnostic’, ‘prognostic’ and
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 45–65
Understanding Germany’s Short-lived “Culture of Welcome”
Images of Refugees in Three Leading German Quality Newspapers
Maximilian Conrad and Hugrún Aðalsteinsdóttir
.” 12 The Relevance of Studying Framing Processes Given this article’s purpose of highlighting the relevance of ideational factors connected to the country’s twentieth-century history in understanding its (short-lived) “culture of welcome” and its
What Makes a Megaproject?
A Review of Global Hydropower Assemblages
Grant M. Gutierrez, Sarah Kelly, Joshua J. Cousins, and Christopher Sneddon
): 9 – 21 . 10.1080/07900620120025024 Borgias , Sophia L and Yvonne A. Braun . 2017 . “ From Dams to Democracy: Framing Processes and Political Opportunities in Chile's Patagonia Without Dams Movement .” Interface: A Journal on Social Movements
Sarah Besky and Jonathan Padwe
1975 ). Territorialized militarism is likewise evident in the language of “invasion ecology,” a subfield of conservation biology that studies the effects of non-native species in new environments ( Elton 2000 ). Discourses of invasion frame processes of
Green Out of the Blue, or How (Not) to Deal with Overfed Oceans
An Analytical Review of Coastal Eutrophication and Social Conflict
Alix Levain, Carole Barthélémy, Magalie Bourblanc, Jean-Marc Douguet, Agathe Euzen, and Yves Souchon
development, directly echoing the literature on neoliberal nature invoked in the first section. In such contexts, keeping social visibility low appears to be an active framing process in which nutrient enrichment of water becomes an additional argument for
How Students on College Campuses Created Opportunities for Workers in Sweatshops
A Multi-Institutional, Interlocking Approach to Political Opportunity Structure
Matthew S. Williams
deal. Part of this research was funded by the Robert and Riza Lavizzo-Mourey Grant. References Alimi , Eitan Y. 2007 . Israeli Politics and the First Palestinian Intifada: Political Opportunities, Framing Processes and Contentious Politics