Rave Protest as a Form of Political Participation: Conceptualization, Activity Types, Agenda Setting (Evidence from Georgia Case)

The purpose of the research is to identify and understand the features of rave protest as a non-conventional form of political participation on the example of Georgia, followed by the development of theoretical and conceptual frameworks for the interpretation of this phenomenon. This goal is achieved through contextual analysis, frame analysis of the media's thematic database, and critical discourse analysis by N. Fairclough, which is applied to in-depth interviews with protest participants. The described form of political participation reflects the aesthetic politics of rave practices, the value equivalent of which allows to mobilize personalized identities, transforming them into collective ones in the political field. A feature of the rave protest is the expansion of the agenda from a single issue to a number of issues of a large-scale political nature.