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| Title: | Regulating Resistance: The ideological control of the protests in Gothenburg 2001 |
| Authors: | Hedkvist, Tobias |
| Date of Issue: | 12-Jan-2006 |
| Language: | eng |
| Keywords: | protests
Althusser |
| Publication type: | C |
| Publisher: | Malmö högskola/IMER |
| Abstract: | This C-paper is a study of state practices around the anti-EU demonstrations in Gothenburg 2001. Based on Louis Althusser's recognition of repressive and ideological state apparatuses, I look at how a democratic state tries to control the political message of a demonstration, by relying on its force and ideology. My argument is that the state controls protests by locating them within a "space of sanctioned resistance." Being defined by state practices and discourse, this space becomes a part of the state system and can because of that never oppose it. This strategy of inclusion is in other words a way for the state to locate resistance under its own umbrella, thereby silenting it to become nothing but a pseudo-affirmation of the freedom of expression within the democratic state system. |
| Appears in Collections: | Uppsatser / Communication in English
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