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Title Popular mobilisation in Burkina Faso: Dynamics of social movements during recent contention
Full text http://rudar.ruc.dk/handle/1800/26875
Date 2016
Author(s) Jørgensen, Lotte Niemann
Contributor(s) Fischer, Johan
Abstract The purpose of this thesis is to examine the ways in which the development of a broad social movement against the government led to political change in Burkina Faso during a popular uprising in 2014 and a political transition in 2015. This development unfolds as the culmination of a broad social movement's protests against the accumulated repressive actions of the regime of Blaise Compaoré. Designed as a qualitative case study, the thesis draws on participatory observations conducted in Burkina Faso during 2015 as a supplement to a 'protest event analysis' on newspaper data. The unit of analysis is the protest events from 2010-2015, which are examined at a macro level by analysing the long-term development and outcome of a social movement against the 'new authoritarian' regime in Burkina Faso. The thesis is guided by a theoretical framework that enables an analysis of how protests are determined by opportunities constituted by temporal political structures, and the framing of issues to participants and bystanders.
Subject(s) Burkina Faso; protest
Language en
Type of publication Thesis; IU-studier / International Development Studies - Master thesis
Repository Roskilde - Roskilde University Digital Archive (RUDAR)
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