Any social movement as long as its 3000 words

Your task is to choose a social movement/protest and undertake research into it as a case study. You should think of this as an essay-type assignment with the accompanying expectation that you will analyse the academic literature and its debates, not simply report descriptively on the major events associated with a particular protest movement. There are several steps to go through in completing this task.

a. Choose a social movement
Although a list of possible case studies is provided above, you should not feel constrained by these options. Your case study can be any social movement, associated with any (or no) side of the political spectrum. You must think of yourself as a researcher exploring the nature of this movement and the debates it has given rise to. In order to ensure there is an academic literature for you to engage then the protest movement should probably not be too obscure. But in principle you can choose any case study.

b. Formulate a question

You then need to formulate an analytical question that will frame the research you undertake through the case-study-essay. The question you formulate should allow you to explore one or other of the intellectual debates in the academic literature over the nature of the protest movement you are looking at. There is no constraint on the type of question you ask. You should be creative, but ensure that the question you choose is ‘viable’ in the sense of having already been researched by academics. This means it needs to have generated an academic literature you can analyse with your essay; if there is not a literature on the social movement you wish to study then it would not be a viable case study. T