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Exploring “the overall relationship between protest movements and their interaction in a larger social and cultural context” necessitates paying some attention to the communicative strategies of such movements. It is, after all, through these strategies that protesters seek to persuade and mobilize supporters. Communicative strategies are furthermore the means through which movements confront “the embodiment of things to overcome and the major target of criticism,” namely, the “establishment.”1
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Joachim Scharloth, Kathrin Fahlenbrach, and Martin Klimke, “Introduction,” presented at the conference “The ‘Establishment’ Responds: The Institutional and Social Impact of Protest Movements during and after the Cold War,” Heidelberg, Germany, November 2007.
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Negrine, R. (2012). Professionalizing Dissent: Protest, Political Communication, and the Media. In: Fahlenbrach, K., Klimke, M., Scharloth, J., Wong, L. (eds) The Establishment Responds. Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230119833_3
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