Das Management von sozialem Protest - die Aufrechterhaltung und Ausweitung von sozialem Protest durch seine Integration in den Alltag am Beispiel des Castor-Transports nach Gorleben im März 2001

Abstract

Theories of social movements concentrate on the explication of their emergence. Their endurance is focused on far less. Within the framework of an explorative research design and on the base of Resource-Mobilization-Theory and Framing-Approaches theses are generated, describing how social protest can endure in spite of long periods of latency and altering political conditions. Empirical backround is the protest against the transport of nuclear waste in Castor-Containers from La Hague/France to Gorleben/Germany in march 2001. The integration of social protest into different spheres of everyday life of the population of the Gorleben-area (social, cultural, religious and economic) is made responsable for its endurance. I will argue that the integration stipulates the perpetuation of organizational structures and patterns of interpretation as well as it helps overcoming free-rider-problems. In addition the paper points out that the proliferation of social protest may be caused by police-actions perturbating protest-independent spheres of everyday life of noninvolved persons (breach of peace, liberty of action, school-life, child education). So far literature only focused on the effects of police-actions against involved protestors (radicalisation/ solidarization of noninvolved 'bystander-publics').