CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Zahoor, Muhammad Adil |
|---|---|
| Title | Social Movements in Hybrid Regimes: The Case of Pashtun Tahafuz (protection) Movement of Pakistan (PTM) |
| Summary | Regime type as a vital conditioning factor impacting mobilization patterns of social movements because of specific political opportunity structures present in different regimes has long evaded scholarly attention. Hybrid regime, as a regime type, and its relationship with contention is even more scantily researched. Another gap can be witnessed in the understanding of latent or unintended outcomes of social movements. As an attempt to fill this scholarly void, this research, with the empirical case of Pashtun Tahafuz (protection) Movement (PTM) of Pakistan, seeks to explore how social movements operate in peculiar hybrid regimes like Pakistan. The study employs 10 semi-structured qualitative Skype interviews with PTM and other smaller movements’ activists to understand the relationship between mobilization and repression in Pakistan and discover movement’s possible outcomes under such a regime type. The research finds that dual (emanating from both the military and political organs of the state) and haphazard repression by a hybrid regime, characterized by the dominance of military and limited political opportunity structure, can curtail the social movement mobilization in the short run, but fails to cease the movement. Instead, the movement becomes stronger in the long run and experiences increased mobilization against the state. A social movement operating under such a regime type may also have a spillover effect on other social movements as an unintended consequence of its mobilization and progress. |
| Supervisor | Bochsler, Daniel |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/zahoor_muhammad.pdf |
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