CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2022
| Author | Meredith Blake |
|---|---|
| Title | Tracing Transnational Protests for Racial Equality: Black Lives Matter in Hungary and Poland |
| Summary | On May 25, 2020, the brutal murder of a Black man named George Floyd by a White Minneapolis police officer sent shockwaves through the United States and around the world. By June 9, massive protests had mobilized in over 40 countries, indicating the global reach of these domestic conversations concerning racial injustice. However, much of the contemporary discourse surrounding racial equality, Whiteness, and White supremacy is dominated by the perspective of the United States in ways that fail to address opinions from countries whose unique perceptions and places in global history are not acknowledged as spaces in which valuable contributions to this global discourse might be found. This raises the question of how the normative values of global movements like Black Lives Matter (BLM) are received, localized, and contested when transnational conversations are triggered—often in real-time, due to the prevalent use of social media and the 24-hour news cycle. Utilizing theories and concepts from International Relations scholarship on norm diffusion and contestation, this thesis explores how Hungary and Poland understand and address their own histories, perspectives, and motivations in relation to the BLM movement, how BLM may or may not have influenced these understandings, and what future opportunities exist for expanding conversations about this topic to include their viewpoints. |
| Supervisor | Merlingen, Michael |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2022/blake_meredith.pdf |
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