May Day Demonstrations in Five European Countries

Peterson, Abby; Wahlström, Mattias; Wennerhag, Magnus; Christancho, Camilo; Sabucedo, José-Manuel

doi:10.17813/maiq.17.3.u11178371006u588

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“…Despite affective injustice playing a very central role in mobilizing people ( van Zomeren et al, 2008 ), this may depend on the nature of the demonstration itself. The fact that they are not predictive in this particular case may be because May Day demonstrations have a deep ritual character ( Peterson et al, 2012 ). Ritual actions do not produce that “fire in the belly and iron in the soul” that Gamson (1992 , p.32) describes when he refers to anger.…”

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The Importance of Protesters’ Morals: Moral Obligation as a Key Variable to Understand Collective Action

2018

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Collective action and protest have become a normalized political behavior that in many cases defines the political agenda. The reasons why people take to the streets constitute a central subject within the study of social psychology. In the literature, three precedents of protest that have been established as central to the study of this phenomenon are: injustice, efficacy, and identity. But political action is also deeply related to moral values. This explains why in recent years some moral constructs have also been pointed out as predictors of collective action. Moral variables have been introduced into the literature with little consideration to how they relate to each other. Thus, work in this direction is needed. The general aim of this research is to differentiate moral obligation from moral norms and moral conviction, as well as to compare their ability to predict collective action. In order to do so, the research objectives are: (a) conceptualize and operationalize moral obligation (Study 1, N = 171); (b) test its predictive power for intention to participate in protests (Study 2, N = 622); and (c) test moral obligation in a real context (Study 3, N = 407). Results are encouraging, showing not only that moral obligation is different to moral conviction and moral norm, but also that it is a more effective predictor working both for intention and real participation. This work therefore presents moral obligation as a key precedent of protest participation, prompting its future use as a variable that can enhance existing predictive models of collective action. Results regarding other variables are also discussed.

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The Importance of Protesters’ Morals: Moral Obligation as a Key Variable to Understand Collective Action

2018

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“…While the relationship between demonstrating and participating in institutional politics in general is now established as mutually co-constitutive, little is known about how this might be gendered. Our comparative approach takes into consideration that the (gendered) socio-political context shapes and reflects motivations to participate in demonstrations (Peterson et al, 2012) and demonstrators’ participation in institutional politics. We examine the role that gender regimes (Walby, 2009) and protest context play in shaping gender differences in demonstration participation and demonstrators’ involvement in institutional politics.…”

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Gender Differences in Political Participation: Comparing Street Demonstrators in Sweden and the United Kingdom

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2018

Sociology

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Research on gender and politics has primarily focused on women's participation in women's movements and institutional politics separately. Our paper is innovative in multiple respects: First, employing a comparative perspective we analyse what impact gender regimes have on participation in street protests. Second, we study the relationship between participation in electoral and protest politics and how this relationship is gendered. Third, we compare the participation of men and women in social movements. We are able to do this by drawing on nuanced survey data of five street demonstrations in the UK and Sweden which we benchmark against the more widely used European Social Survey. Our comparative research demonstrates that involvement in protest and institutional politics varies by gender, country and context. Our findings have important implications for gender equality in terms of social inclusion and political representation and contribute to political sociology, sociology of gender, and social movement research.

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“…Social and political contexts such as the financial crisis and public sector cuts shape participation in demonstrations and reflect participation motivations (Peterson et al, 2012). However, as we indicate above, with reference to the 'new losers' (Della Porta, 2015) who face 'new social risks' (Bonoli, 2005), broader social and political contexts impact individuals.…”

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“…However, as part of larger mobilisations against neoliberalism and austerity, trade unions go beyond particularistic mobilisation and other actors in making universalistic claims. In fact, Peterson, Wahlström, Wennerhag, Christancho, and Sabucedo (2012) argue that far from being a 'hollow ritual', May Day demonstrations in 2010 addressed grievances following rising unemployment thus representing protest against austerity (see also, Appendix 2). Thus, trade union demonstrations need to be included in analyses of anti-austerity protest in Europe (Peterson et al, 2015).…”

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“…By 2012, in Europe the most frequent protesters are actually more likely to be women than men (Saunders & Shlomo, 2016). However, there is variation across demonstrations, varying by issue (Gómez-Román & Sabucedo, 2014), and across countries: In May Day demonstrations over 60% of the Swedish participants were women compared to less than 40% in Spain and the UK (Peterson et al, 2012). We consider that it is particularly important to compare men's and women's involvement in anti-austerity demonstrations for three reasons.…”

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Do gender regimes matter? Gender differences in involvement in anti-austerity protests - a comparison of Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom

Roth

Saunders

2019

Social Movement Studies

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Responses to the Great Recession are varied across welfare states and gendered in their consequences. Combining gender, social policy and social movement scholarship, this paper investigates how the differential policy responses to the Financial Crisis in three European countries shaped gender-differences in antiausterity demonstrations. We compare the involvement and characteristics of women and men in anti-austerity protests using data collected at street demonstrations (2010-2012). We conduct crossnational multi-level analysis of demonstrators from countries representing different gender regimes (Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom). Our results show that gender regimes have a significant impact on women's and men's involvement in anti-austerity protests. We thus make an important contribution to research on gender differences in participation in anti-austerity demonstrations post-Great Recession. Our comparison of women's and men's participation in anti-austerity street demonstrations suggests that at the country or regime level resources matter more than grievances, but that grievances matter at the individual level. This innovative paper links scholarship on gender regimes with research on protest participation. Resources and experiences of grievances are shaped by gender regimes which provide access to decision-making and social support. We reveal novel insights into the connection between gender regimes and demonstration participation. ARTICLE HISTORY

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May Day Demonstrations in Five European Countries

Cited by 9 publications

References 35 publications

The Importance of Protesters’ Morals: Moral Obligation as a Key Variable to Understand Collective Action

The Importance of Protesters’ Morals: Moral Obligation as a Key Variable to Understand Collective Action

Gender Differences in Political Participation: Comparing Street Demonstrators in Sweden and the United Kingdom

Do gender regimes matter? Gender differences in involvement in anti-austerity protests - a comparison of Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom

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