CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Dutchak, Oksana |
|---|---|
| Title | Radical Claiming Without Radical Claims: Promises and Limits of Transactional Activism in Post-Orange Kyiv |
| Summary | This paper deals with contextualized radicalization of tactics within the casestudy of protest initiative “Save Old Kyiv”. While having emerged in Ukrainian capital city in order to protest against illegal construction projects, the initiative operated within a particular context of scanty resources; it was trying to solve the problem of resource mobilization by using transactional activism. Referring to this example, radicalization of tactics, particular context after the Orange Revolution, and the phenomenon of transactional activism are researched in relation both to one another and to different aspects of protest activities. This paper addresses a tendency toward more contextualized approach within the Western social movement studies, by problematizing the influence of the Orange Revolution on social activism in Kyiv. While dealing with the radicalization of tactics in the particular urban social movement, the paper explores the promising yet underresearched phenomenon of transactional activism. The casestudy demonstrates both opportunities and potential limitations of transactional activism in its relation to the question of context and to other dynamics of protest activities, including that of radicalization. |
| Supervisor | Kalb, Don; Fumagalli, Matteo |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/dutchak_oksana.pdf |
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