Vidnesbyrd om modstand: Antikrigsprotester i Rusland

Abstract

Denne artikel kortlægger antikrigsprotester og protestlogikker (della Porta & Diani, 2006) i samtidens Rusland. Med empirisk udgangspunkt i journalistisk materiale og eksisterende forskning i aktivisme og protest i Rusland foreslår jeg i artiklen, at antikrigsaktivisterne kan inddeles i seks kategorier: Masseprotester; enkeltpersonsprotester; kunstneriske og kulturelle protester; kommunikationsaktivisme; sabotage; og hverdagsaktivisme. I sin konklusion foreslår artiklen, at opmærksomhed på forskellige typer protester, ud over massedemonstrationer, bidrager værdifuldt til vores forståelse af protestdynamikker i Rusland. This article provides an overview of anti-war protests and logics of contention in contemporary Russia. With a point of departure in journalistic material and drawing on existing research on protest in Russia, the article suggests that anti-war protests can be divided into six categories: mass protests; solo pickets; cultural and artistic protests; information activism; sabotage; and civil disobedience. The article argues that anti-war protests in contemporary Russia mainly follow a logic of bearing witness. In conclusion, the article suggests that paying attention to various types of protest, beyond mass demonstrations, contributes valuably to our understanding of protest dynamics in Russia.

Keywords

• protest
• Russia
• protest logics
• anti-war protests
• social movements