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2 results foundAuthor: Mireanu, Manuel Title: Vigilantism and Security: State, violence and politics in Italy and Hungary Summary: This thesis explores the relationship between the state and vigilante groups in two situations from Italy and Hungary. It asks the question of the possibility of successful security articulations that emerge from actors endowed with lower levels of social capital. Vigilantism is one such possible security practice. The practices of the vigilante groups that I look at cannot be fully captured if we focus on either state-centred security, or on socially dispersed security practices. Their practices are performed by agents with lower levels of securitising capital than state elites, but with sufficient legitimacy and capabilities to enact security successfully. These practices are not dispersed through 'society', but they are concentrated in groups and patrols with explicit programs, hierarchies and purposes. I argue that vigilante groups can practice security autonomously from the state - even if they have the state's 'blessing'. I argue that vigilantism is an instance of everyday security. Vigilantism illustrates practices of security with clear goals of providing services to a target audience. Vigilantism fulfils a security demand. Vigilante groups have clearly-defined goals, which are influenced by a guiding ideology. Such programmatic security acts do not sit well with the established literature on everyday security, which diverges from a decisionistic model, and posits the non-intentionality of security practices. I diverge from this position and argue that vigilantism shows how security can be at the same time non-elitist and intentional. This thesis uses participatory methods to achieve as much proximity as possible to the actants of vigilante security practices. Analysing situations enables me to have a better negotiation of the interplay between local and daily routines and practices on the one hand, and global discourses and narratives on the other hand. For these reasons, I use the concept of security-scape, to delineate situations of security in which my analysis moves constantly between the particular and the general. The two security-scapes I focus on in this thesis are the Milan Central train station and the Hungarian village of Gyongyospata. Through these two instances of vigilantism in Europe, I illustrate non-state and intentional acts of security. Both the City Angels and the far-right patrols of Gyongyospata perform acts of security in the absence of state capacities. Both situations illustrate an ambiguous relationship with the state, in the sense that their relative autonomy coincides with a reinforcement of state practices and discourses. And both are situations of programmatic and intentional security, where the decision to act is based on the clear articulated intention to respond to a security demand. Details: Budapest: Central European University, 2014. 268p. Source: Internet Resource: Dissertation: Accessed April 8, 2017 at: http://pds.ceu.edu/sites/pds.ceu.hu/files/attachment/basicpage/478/mireanumanuelir.pdf Year: 2014 Country: Europe URL: http://pds.ceu.edu/sites/pds.ceu.hu/files/attachment/basicpage/478/mireanumanuelir.pdf Shelf Number: 144760 Keywords: Far-right Groups SecurityVigilante GroupsVigitantism |
Author: Berger, J.M. Title: The Alt-Right Twitter Census: Defining and Describing the Audience for Alt-Right Content on Twitter Summary: The so-called 'alt-right' is an amorphous but synchronized collection of far-right people and movements, an umbrella label for a number of loosely affiliated social movements around the world, although its centre of gravity is in the United States. Many factors have contributed to the alt-right's rise to prominence, but one of the most visible is its online presence. Alt-right views have been promoted online by a small army of trolls and activists staging harassment campaigns, pushing hashtags and posting links to extremist content and conspiracy theories on social media. Since 2016, the alt-right and its allies have held an increasingly prominent place in American and European politics, rallying support behind a variety of causes and candidates. This study seeks to evaluate the alt-right's online presence with robust metrics and an analysis of content shared by adherents. The alt-right has many components online; this report will primarily examine its presence on Twitter, in part because the movement is particularly active on that platform, and in part because Twitter's data access policies allow for more robust evaluation than is possible on other platforms. This report will: - Create a demographic and identity snapshot of a representative portion of the audience for alt-right supporters on Twitter - Examine content shared within the dataset - Describe the methodology used to derive these findings - Propose avenues for further research based on this report's findings Details: Dublin: VOX-Pol Network of Excellence, 2018. 59p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed November 3, 2018 at: https://www.voxpol.eu/download/vox-pol_publication/AltRightTwitterCensus.pdf Year: 2018 Country: International URL: https://www.voxpol.eu/download/vox-pol_publication/AltRightTwitterCensus.pdf Shelf Number: 153242 Keywords: Extremism Extremist Groups Far-Right GroupsRadical Groups Radicalization Social Media Terrorism Terrorists |