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deeply into this seemingly excellent example of progressiveness to understand if Hadiya had ‘agency’. During further interviews and conversations over social media, Hadiya was very positive about her family’s role in supporting her education. She seemed confident that if she had said ‘no’ to going to university, her parents would have understood. I was dubious about this, reflecting on her father’s personality and focus on education. When they
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a toll-free case-reporting number, and a crackdown on ‘fake news’ spread via social media ( BBC, 2017 ). The government also suppressed traditional Malagasy famadihana burial practices. These involve exhuming the corpse of the dead, rewrapping them in fresh cloth, and dancing with the body around the family crypt, a practice which has been linked to the transmission of pneumonic plague ( Sodikoff, 2019 : 48). Many bodies of plague victims were
shortage during birth, Nawal spends a lot of time online, looking up games for disabled children. She aptly uses medical and technological vocabulary, and stays informed about new treatments. However, when asked about new opportunities for Syrian women in Jordan, Nawal is quick to fend us off. ‘Many Syrians took off their niqabs [i.e. a veil that covers their entire face], they wear makeup, go out on their own and talk on social media. I think that this is wrong. We were not
The term 'lobbying' derives from the particular location in which the activity supposedly takes place, the parliamentary or legislative lobby. In practice, most lobbying takes place elsewhere: in government offices, in restaurants or online. This book presents the arguments in favour of and against lobbying. It deals with the various types of lobbyists prevalent in Britain: insider groups, outsider groups, business lobbyists, and commercial lobbyists. The renewable energy industry and the alcohol industry are examples of associations engaging in business lobbying. The book examines how lobbying is carried out, how lobbyists frame or define a policy issue and challenge existing framings, the initative taken by governments to consult stakeholders, the role of social media in revolutionising lobbying, and the forming of advocacy coalitions. It considers three case studies of lobbying in action: the campaign to reduce sugar consumption, issues relating to fixed odds betting terminals, and the future of the Green Belt. The case for and against the regulation of lobbying is discussed next. The book looks at the UK system of regulating lobbying and the regulation prevalent in the European Union. It also examines the issue of whether the democratic process gets unduly distorted by lobbying. Electoral politics can still trump pressure politics.
potentially significant impact upon voting behaviour during Donald Trump’s unexpected victory in the 2016 US Presidential Election ( Allcott and Gentzkow, 2017 ). This book contextualises contemporary debates about digital contention by exploring how social media users responded to controversial public demonstrations in Northern Ireland between 2012–2016. In doing so, it is congruent with the agenda for digital politics research advanced by Karpf (2020) , which acknowledges the temporality of social media, how platforms and their uses evolve, and the importance of
Emotions matter to politics. Despite their importance, emotions tend to be neglected in the study of such routine aspects of politics as elections. Whereas emotions have certainly been studied in the context of spectacular political moments, this volume attends to the passions generated by elections, which have all too often been dismissed as a relatively banal dimension of politics. The volume delves into the passions evoked by India’s 2019 general election, widely billed as a ‘battle for India’s soul’. It explores the processes of social, economic and cultural change within which the election was embedded. Contributions from economists, sociologists, geographers, anthropologists and political scientists shed light on a significant political moment in India.
The rise of the internet, and social media in particular, has been hailed as the ultimate embodiment of the long-promised ‘marketplace of ideas’; an enduring metaphor which has been used as a foundation for interpreting the right of freedom of expression, particularly in the US context. This metaphor has been a seductive one in Western politics, implying the free exchange of views and information between equals in order to reach higher truths. Creating an analogy with the free market trade in goods and services, the metaphor has been applied to diverse domains
Throughout this book I have argued that the flag protests marked a watershed moment in terms of contentious politics in Northern Ireland; henceforth social media provided communicative spaces in which citizens made rights claims in this deeply divided society. The extent to which these nascent acts of ‘digital citizenship’ contribute to peacebuilding ultimately depends on the socio-political context in which such claims are made. During periods of political instability, for instance, affective publics mobilised via online platforms may help and hinder efforts
Community and little narratives 127 6 Community and little narratives In this chapter we explore how cosmetic surgery tourists form communities, sometimes in person but more often on social media and the websites that they use to conduct research, to meet others, and then to navigate, document and narrate their experiences. In addition to this, we show how some people use social media to make and maintain friendships and links connected with their surgical/travel experiences. One sort of cosmetic surgery tourist stands out in her sociality and in her intent