Filling the Gap in Understanding Contention: The Republic of New Africa and the Influence of State Repression

这项研究试图考察国家镇压如何影响持不同政见者和持不同政见者的活动。为了实现这一目标，我在没有公开压制的情况下确定了群体之间的关系，即群体沟通的性质，计划/实施不同的活动，等等。这一信息是从阅读/编码警察(“红队”)关于新非洲共和国(RNA)组织的档案中获得的，该组织从1968年至1975年每周都被观察到。这一信息得到了四家不同报纸的报纸报道的补充，这些报纸在种族和政治取向方面各有不同。这五个数据集的构建有助于在社会运动的“黑匣子”内进行检查，确定每周在其中发生的事情。这些数据集还有助于检查当镇压行为针对持不同政见者时发生了什么变化(如果有的话)。最后，这项研究使我们能够更好地了解每个数据源本身在做什么和不做什么方面可能存在偏见。因此，研究提案同时对几个研究领域作出了贡献。

This research seeks to examine how state repression influences dissidents and dissident activity. In order to accomplish this objective, I identify inter-group relations without overt repression being observed, that is, the nature of group communication, planning/carrying through different activities, and so forth. This information is obtained from reading/coding police ("Red Squad") files about a group called the Republic of New Africa (RNA) that was observed weekly from 1968 to 1975. This information is supplemented by newspaper reports from four different newspapers which vary in terms of ethnicity and political orientation. The construction of these five data sets facilitates examination within the "black box" of a social movement, identifying what happens within them on a weekly basis. The data sets also facilitate examination of what (if anything) changes when repressive behavior is directed against dissidents. Finally, the research allows us to understand better how each of the data sources themselves might be biased in terms of what they do and do not report. As a consequence, the research proposal contributes simultaneously to several areas of research.