The Fragility of Dissent!: Mediated Resistance at the Gleneagles G8 Summit and the Impact of the 7/7 London Bombings

• Autores: Patrick McCurdy
• Localización: Cultura, lenguaje y representación = Culture, language and representation: revista de estudios culturales de la Universitat Jaume I = cultural studies journal of Universitat Jaume I, ISSN 1697-7750, Nº. 9, 2011, págs. 99-116
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.6035/clr.2011.9.5
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  • español

    Adoptando un método etnográfico, este artículo presenta un estudio de caso sobre las protestas realizadas por la red Dissent! durante la cumbre del G8 en Gleneagles en 2005. Es reseñable la manera en que los activistas anticipan, comprenden y negocian de forma reflexiva la oportunidad mediatizada y la dinámica cambiante de los medios de comunicación en relación con la citada cumbre. El análisis realizado se centra en las consecuencias representacionales para las protestas de Dissent!, derivadas de los ataques terroristas del 7 de julio en Londres. Los ataques terroristas refuerzan la fragilidad y temporalidad de la resistencia mediatizada al tiempo que se enfatiza la falta de control que los agentes de los movimientos sociales tienen sobre los espacios mediatizados de resistencia.reverberations of the July 7th, 2005 London bombings (7/7 bombings) on Dissent! protests. It is argued that the bombings reinforced the fragility and temporality of mediated resistance, and also emphasised the lack of control social movement actors have over mediated spaces of resistance.

  • English

    Informed by ethnographic methods, this article takes a case study approach to the protests of the Dissent! network at the 2005 Gleneagles G8 Summit. Of interest is how activists anticipated, understood and reflexively navigated the ?mediated opportunity? and shifting media dynamics of the G8 Summit. The analysis focuses largely on the representational reverberations of the July 7th, 2005 London bombings (7/7 bombings) on Dissent! protests. It is argued that the bombings reinforced the fragility and temporality of mediated resistance, and also emphasised the lack of control social movement actors have over mediated spaces of resistance.

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