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“The looters are just expropriating what they would otherwise have bought...”. Towards the phenomenology of contemporary protest in the United States
- Authors: Voronin S.A.1, Yakemenko B.G.1
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Affiliations:
- Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
- Issue: Vol 12, No 4 (2020)
- Pages: 380-389
- Section: Ideas and politics in history
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/world-history/article/view/25152
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2312-8127-2020-12-4-380-389
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The article analyzes the phenomenon of social protests that swept the United States in 2020. The article considers the evolution of the concepts of “sacrifice” and “redemption” in the modern public consciousness of the USA and Europe. The author analyzes the cause-and-effect relationships of what is happening, the phenomena accompanying the protests, in particular, looting, which is perceived by the protesters not as a marginal phenomenon, but as a necessary condition for restoring social justice.
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S. A. Voronin
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
Author for correspondence.
Email: svoronin.rudn@mail.ru
PhD in History
6 Miklukho-Maklay street, Moscow, Russian Federation, 117198Boris G. Yakemenko
Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia
Email: Borislj@mail.ru
PhD in History
6 Miklukho-Maklay street, Moscow, Russian Federation, 117198References
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