Every political science book taught us that the self -burning of a fruit seller caused the jasmine revolution. This revolution, which is also known as Arab Spring, plunged authoritarian regime in the Middle East through mass protests and dissent, led by young people. Although this did not lead to the expected result, someone explained what happened, what Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old adolescent, prompted to trigger one of the most important uprisings that the neoliberal world had ever experienced? It was a punch of a police officer. Many of them may only have thought, “deserves it”. However, a crucial question must be answered before continuing. Why was he beaten?
Officials in the Tunisian city of Sidi Bouzid arrived as a routine exercise in order to clear non -licensed providers. The argument was over a box of bananas and some pears. The municipal police confiscated bouzazis products and scales, whereupon he replied: “Well, what should I do … should I weigh my fruits with their breasts?”
This age of preparation is stimulated by the current media, categorically social media discourse, and the aggression in the robe of passion is underpinned. In such a polarized scenario, Praveen Swami argues: “Young men without possibilities and jobs have only part of society that they can choose: young women.”
In a statement to the press that a woman had not beaten him, Faida Hamdi, the female police officer, said none of it would have happened. No action justifies violence. However, the result of this mockery was a blow that led to the most important cases of violence in the Middle East. Feminists agreed that there must be parity in the treatment of all genders, but all get the same treatment in relation to respect and freedom of choice if they exercise their rights?
Gender consequences of youth rage
We live in the age of the “Youth Bay”. A time in the history of mankind, in which the demographic patterns in a country reflect a large proportion of their population, consisting of children and adolescents compared to the old. In South Asia in particular, the consequences of this demographic shifting and the corresponding economic decline stood, with Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and now Nepal falling into the trap of a suspended government.
Praveen Swami, a contributor editor for printing, says These “youth trees lead to many young people who fight too few jobs at an age if they cannot think of marrying”, and this opens a can of poisonous masculinity problems.
The current media influence this age of the preparatory age, in particular the social media discourse, which confirms aggression in the form of passion. In such a polarized scenario, Praveen Swami argues: “Young men without possibilities and jobs have only part of society that they can choose: young women.”
Historical violence patterns
The effects of the large -scale Ethnic violence in Kenya From 1991 to 1993, which was a result of the inability of the economy to absorb a rapidly growing employment population, continue. Since the private sector is exposed to political economy due to the disproportionate increase in a handful of billionaires and its influence, the public sector is faced with overcrowding. In Kenya today, political groups rely on criminals to provide them with money and muscle power, and similar to Mexico. Drug box I was the terrible result of young men who wanted to make quick money in cartels. Use of gun violence to obtain a fraudulent feeling for agency, low education, social differences and gender -specific education, which have been tightened with economic uncertainties, have heated up these youthful disillusionment.
A terrible instance of a 13-year-old girl of twelve people, seven minors, is just one of the various examples of gender-specific youth violence that the country records.
Anthropological studies of Assad & BarSOUM (2007), Mulderig (2013) And Kabbani (2019) have shown how violence and hatred the countries of the Middle East and Latin America have penetrated so deeply that progress and development were made impossible. Countries with high male population groups have shown higher cases of criminal activities how they were examined Ted Robert Gurr.
Hendril Urdal closer to his home and found a strong statistical correlation between the risk of armed conflicts and youth fuss in his sub -national study from 2005 to India. A remarkable point is that all of these trends are closely related to an increase in youthful male population groups if not only develops but also developed economies.
Media, youth and youth criminal trends
The publication of the Netflix series ‘Adolescence’ Sicked alarms that went out all over the world that still lived in the utopia of innocence from childhood and naivety as an excuse for the constantly increasing rates of youth crimes. The Hindu published a detailed report on young criminals and shows that this shows Youth offenders who were convicted of violent crimes In India, even if those who have conflict with the law have decreased.
Source: Anadolu agency
A terrible instance of a 13-year-old girl of twelve people, seven minors, is just one of the various examples of gender-specific youth violence that the country records. Gender -based violence (GBV) that one economic problemwas recently emphasized by an online panel discussion of the Aspen Institute, in which it spoke about the disproportionate effects of the federal crisis, be it politically, economical or socially on women.
Violence against women in political uprisings is classified as a “tactic of the war” in order to assert social control and symbolically claiming control by defusing the allegorical understanding of purity in the body of a woman. Studies on the Arabic uprising of Hafez (2015) and Bigert (2019) showed how sexual, psychological, symbolic and now also online power are aspects of GBV that threaten the participation of women in politics and disappoint them from the actual democratic participation.
Violence against women in political uprisings is classified as a “tactic of the war” in order to assert social control and symbolically claiming control by defusing the allegorical understanding of purity in the body of a woman.
While the world sees how proto democracies immerse themselves in the independent voices led as empowerment and youthful, we have to examine the gender-specific composition and participation in these movements. The “Gen-Z movement” in Nepal led to the fall of an allegedly corrupt and suffocating government and the election of its first female prime minister, even if the country records an almost centuries-long death fee and mass infrastructure disorder.
So far, no example for GBV has been reported. However, the systematic exclusion and the selective target of women during political and social movements must not be invisitated in the name of achieving the “greater good” or to maintain the unity and holiness of the “ultimate message”. However, this historical analysis should arouse a public interest in examining the representation of women during and in response to political unrest and return to the worrying question whether the Jasmin Revolution would have occurred if the official had been a man.
Student of the media studies in the second year (regarded as a university), BRC, Bangalore. A trained Kathak dancer, theater artist and political nerd.