Global Diffusion of Protest

Riding the Protest Wave in the Neoliberal Crisis
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-18036-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Protest and Social Movements

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 an 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.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Porta, Donatella

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Riding the Wave: Protest Cascades, and What We Can Learn from Them, 2. The Spirit of Gezi: A Relational Approach to Eventful Protest and Its Challenges, 3. Brazil’s Popular Awakening — June 2013: Accounting for the Onset of a New Cycle of Contention, 4. Making sense of 'La Salida': Challenging Left-Wing Control in Venezuela, 5. The Marikana Massacre and Labour Protest in South Africa, 6. Left in Translation: The Curious Absence of an Austerity Narrative in the 2013 Bulgarian Protests, 7. 'Sow Hunger, Reap Anger': From Neoliberal Privatization to New Collective Identities in Bosnia, 8. A Spirit of Maidan? Contentious Escalation in Ukraine, 9. Riding the Wave: Some Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Donatella della Porta is professor of sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore, where she directs the Centre on Social Movement Studies.