Méthodologie du mémoire - The Language of Protest

This course will help students to learn how to approach their research and how to write their Master's thesis using a research example. The research example looks at political protest as a complex speech act with interlacing forms of distributed agency. Seeing protest this way, we will look at what protest aims to do, what it actually does, when it should be considered successful or not. This will look at the role protest plays in public democratic practices, specifically what its "expressive" power is, as well as what kind of expressive power (the masses, non-govermental organisations, govermental agencies, the state) the different actors have, whether they are directly involved in the protest or just have to contend with it.