CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Főző, Zsolt |
|---|---|
| Title | The diffusion of the anti-Olympics - Recent movements against hosting the Olympic Games in Boston, Hamburg and Budapest |
| Summary | In this thesis, I would like to deepen the academic knowledge about the movements of “anti-Olympics” as potential subjects of social movement research. I assume that given the common, global subject of these movements (i.e. the Olympics), they are similar and the process of transnational diffusion can be observed between such movements. To analyze these assumptions, I develop three case studies of recent campaigns where local movements opposed the issue of hosting the Olympics. A case study is about campaigns in Boston in 2014-2015, another is a story of a platform in Hamburg in 2015 and the third case study is about a campaign of a movement in Budapest in early 2017. The sources of these case study analyses were mainly interviews that I have conducted with leading characters of these campaigns. As a result, I find many similarities concerning Political Opportunity Structures, mobilizing structures and framing. Moreover, some clear evidences of diffusion processes can be traced between the case studies and elsewhere. Diffusion may explain some similarities of these campaigns that were held in very different parts of the world. |
| Supervisor | Greskovits, Béla |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/fozo_zsolt.pdf |
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