Unpacking the Gendered Consequences of Protest-Driven Crises
Citizen protests are common political phenomena, ranging in size, kind, and impact. This essay focuses on a unique kind of citizen protest that reaches a crisis threshold: massive uprisings accompanied by violence and system-level critiques, expressed in phrases such as “It is not 30 cents, it is 30...
Published in: | Politics & Gender |
---|---|
Main Authors: | , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
2023
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x22000381 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S1743923X22000381 |
id |
crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s1743923x22000381 |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s1743923x22000381 2024-05-19T07:42:45+00:00 Unpacking the Gendered Consequences of Protest-Driven Crises Reyes-Housholder, Catherine Suárez-Cao, Julieta Le Foulon, Carmen 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x22000381 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S1743923X22000381 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Politics & Gender volume 19, issue 3, page 915-921 ISSN 1743-923X 1743-9248 journal-article 2023 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x22000381 2024-05-02T06:50:53Z Citizen protests are common political phenomena, ranging in size, kind, and impact. This essay focuses on a unique kind of citizen protest that reaches a crisis threshold: massive uprisings accompanied by violence and system-level critiques, expressed in phrases such as “It is not 30 cents, it is 30 years,” used by protesters in Chile in 2019–20. Crises meeting this definition have occurred in countries as diverse as Iceland in 2009, Hong Kong in 2019, Chile, and Colombia in 2019–21. In contrast with economic crises (Strolovitch 2013), protesters—not necessarily elites—perform the discursive work of (re)interpreting material and political conditions. Protesters’ framing of their grievances may overwhelm elite attempts to reinterpret these crises for their benefit. We argue that protest-driven crises can alter gendered opportunity structures, but outcomes are likely multifaceted and potentially contradictory. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Cambridge University Press Politics & Gender 1 7 |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
Cambridge University Press |
op_collection_id |
crcambridgeupr |
language |
English |
description |
Citizen protests are common political phenomena, ranging in size, kind, and impact. This essay focuses on a unique kind of citizen protest that reaches a crisis threshold: massive uprisings accompanied by violence and system-level critiques, expressed in phrases such as “It is not 30 cents, it is 30 years,” used by protesters in Chile in 2019–20. Crises meeting this definition have occurred in countries as diverse as Iceland in 2009, Hong Kong in 2019, Chile, and Colombia in 2019–21. In contrast with economic crises (Strolovitch 2013), protesters—not necessarily elites—perform the discursive work of (re)interpreting material and political conditions. Protesters’ framing of their grievances may overwhelm elite attempts to reinterpret these crises for their benefit. We argue that protest-driven crises can alter gendered opportunity structures, but outcomes are likely multifaceted and potentially contradictory. |
format |
Article in Journal/Newspaper |
author |
Reyes-Housholder, Catherine Suárez-Cao, Julieta Le Foulon, Carmen |
spellingShingle |
Reyes-Housholder, Catherine Suárez-Cao, Julieta Le Foulon, Carmen Unpacking the Gendered Consequences of Protest-Driven Crises |
author_facet |
Reyes-Housholder, Catherine Suárez-Cao, Julieta Le Foulon, Carmen |
author_sort |
Reyes-Housholder, Catherine |
title |
Unpacking the Gendered Consequences of Protest-Driven Crises |
title_short |
Unpacking the Gendered Consequences of Protest-Driven Crises |
title_full |
Unpacking the Gendered Consequences of Protest-Driven Crises |
title_fullStr |
Unpacking the Gendered Consequences of Protest-Driven Crises |
title_full_unstemmed |
Unpacking the Gendered Consequences of Protest-Driven Crises |
title_sort |
unpacking the gendered consequences of protest-driven crises |
publisher |
Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
publishDate |
2023 |
url |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x22000381 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S1743923X22000381 |
genre |
Iceland |
genre_facet |
Iceland |
op_source |
Politics & Gender volume 19, issue 3, page 915-921 ISSN 1743-923X 1743-9248 |
op_rights |
https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms |
op_doi |
https://doi.org/10.1017/s1743923x22000381 |
container_title |
Politics & Gender |
container_start_page |
1 |
op_container_end_page |
7 |
_version_ |
1799482444313788416 |