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 looks a...

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Contributors: Della Porta, Donatella 1956- (Other)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2017
In:Year: 2017
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Keywords:
Neoliberalism
Protest movements > Cross-cultural studies
Protest movements > History > 21st century
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
social movements, protests, contentious politics, democracy
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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 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.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource 12 line drawings
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9789048531356
DOI:10.1515/9789048531356
Access:Open Access