Emotional Entrainment and Protest Violence. A visual case study of Anti-covid protest in Europe

Case Study from the year 2022 in the subject Sociology - Politics, Majorities, Minorities, grade: 2, Free University of Berlin (John F. Kennedy), course: Introduction to Qualitative Methods, language: English, abstract: The illegality of the demonstration in Amsterdam in January 2022 perfectly illustrates protest dynamics in an unusual context. This analysis found no indication that the analytical aspects of the Amsterdam protest differed from past lawful protests overseas, but the micro-level risks of violent outbursts potentially vary; this could be a worry for future academic studies on protest dynamics. Using a variety of theoretical frameworks, I could show how the Amsterdam protest may be analyzed in terms of both visual data and a psycho-social study of the participants. Access to raw video data, such as CCTV footage and police video recordings, which may be provided to the city of Amsterdam, is essential to our investigation's ongoing development of analytical expertise. Despite its limits, this research attempted to explore the situational features of the anti-covid-19 restriction protest in Amsterdam on January 2, 2022, without any financing or governmental backing.