Global diffusion of protest : riding the protest wave in the neoliberal crisis /

Recent years have seen a new development in the growth and spread of popular protest: protests that began as local, homogeneous events - such as Occupy Wall Street or the protests of the Arab Spring - quickly left their original locations, and local specificity, behind and became global. This book l...

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Other Authors: Della Porta, Donatella, 1956- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
Series:Protest and social movements ; 11.
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Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Riding the wave. Protest cascades, and what we can learn from them / della Porta, Donatella
  • 2. The spirit of Gezi. A relational approach to eventful protest and its challenges / della Porta, Donatella / Atak, Kivanc
  • 3. Brazil's popular awakening
  • June 2013. Accounting for the onset of a new cycle of contention / Mendes, Mariana S.
  • 4. Making sense of "La Salida". Challenging left-wing control in Venezuela / Masullo, Juan
  • 5. The Marikana Massacre and Labor Protest in South Africa / O'Connor, Francis
  • 6. Left in translation. The curious absence of austerity frames in the 2013 Bulgarian protests / Rone, Julia
  • 7. "Sow hunger, reap anger". From neoliberal privatization to new collective identities in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Milan, Chiara
  • 8. A spirit of Maidan? Contentious escalation in Ukraine / Ritter, Daniel P.
  • 9. Riding the wave. Some conclusions / della Porta, Donatella
  • Bibliography
  • Index