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- Title
Radical Outcasts versus Three Kinds of Police: Constructing Limits in Japanese Anti-Emperor Protests.
- Authors
Steinhoff, Patricia
- Abstract
Field observation of anti-emperor protests in Japan reveals two key processes through which the interaction of police and demonstrators gradually narrows the limits of permitted dissent through soft repression. The first process stigmatizes demonstration participants and sharply separates them from the mainstream of Japanese public life, discouraging public attention to or participation in their causes. The second process divides protest movements internally, decreasing support for groups that operate at the prevailing limit of tolerated dissent, and gradually constricting the limit itself. Great variability in police-demonstrator interactions within demonstrations suggests the limitations of newspaper content analysis methods for such research.
- Subjects
JAPAN; PUBLIC demonstrations; PROTEST movements; SOCIAL movements; POLICE; CONTENT analysis; COMMUNICATION methodology; SOCIOLOGICAL research
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 2006, Vol 29, Issue 3, p387
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11133-006-9030-0