Finding a new folk devil: (mis)constructing anti-capitalist activists

Donson, Fiona, Chesters, Graeme, Tickle, Andy and Welsh, Ian 2002. Finding a new folk devil: (mis)constructing anti-capitalist activists. [Working Paper]. School of Social Sciences Working Papers Series, vol. 24. Cardiff: Cardiff University.

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Abstract

The paper will offer an account of how political activists are (mis)constructed as “folk devils” through an examination of recent media coverage in the UK and Czech Republic. It will seek to show how their construction as violent criminals and dangerous anarchists has influenced the treatment of those involved in protests by public authorities in the UK and Prague. The paper will also offer, in juxtaposition to this representation of the current anti-capitalism movement, a discussion of the accounts of activists themselves. In particular it examines the activists’ own perceptions of their engagement in the global social movement against capitalism. The paper is based on evidence derived from preliminary findings from interdisciplinary research into global social movements, and in particular the protests against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Prague in September 2000.

Item Type:	Monograph (Working Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Publisher:	Cardiff University
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	23 Jul 2020 01:53
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/78064

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