Global Diffusion of Protest
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 looks at the development of this wave of protests, with a specific eye on protests against austerity and neoliberal economic policies, and offers a global view, covering events in Turkey, Brazil, Vene…
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- Full title :Global Diffusion of Protest / edited by Donatella della Porta.
Summary
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 looks at the development of this wave of protests, with a specific eye on protests against austerity and neoliberal economic policies, and offers a global view, covering events in Turkey, Brazil, Venezuela, South Africa, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and other locations.
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- Publication Date:2017
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Amsterdam University Press
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2017
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (262 pages) : : illustrations, maps
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789048531356, 9048531357
- oclc:on1111905893
- LC Classification:HM883
- Dewey Decimal:303.48/4
Table of Contents
1. Riding the wave: Protest cascades, and what we can learn from them / Donatella della Porta -- 2. The spirit of Gezi: A relational approach to eventful protest and its challenges / Donatella della Porta and Kivanc Atak -- 3. Brazil's popular awakening -- June 2013: Accounting for the onset of a new cycle of contention / Mariana S. Mendes -- 4. Making sense of "La Salida": Challenging left-wing control in Venezuela / Juan Masullo -- 5. The Marikana Massacre and Labor Protest in South Africa / Francis O'Connor -- 6. Left in translation: The curious absence of austerity frames in the 2013 Bulgarian protests / Julia Rone -- 7. "Sow hunger, reap anger": From neoliberal privatization to new collective identities In Bosnia-Herzegovina / Chiara Milan -- 8. A spirit of Maidan?: Contentious escalation in Ukraine / Daniel P. Ritter -- 9. Riding the wave: Some conclusions / Donatella della Porta.
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