Spreading Protest: Social Movements in Times of CrisisDonatella della Porta , Alice Mattoni Which elements do the Arab Spring, the Indignados and Occupy Wall Street have in common? How do they differ? What do they share with social movements of the past? This book discusses the recent wave of global mobilisations from an unusual angle, explaining what aspects of protests spread from one country to another, how this happened, and why diffusion occurred in certain contexts but not in others. In doing this, the book casts light on the more general mechanisms of protest diffusion in contemporary societies, explaining how mobilisations travel from one country to another and, also, from past to present times. Bridging different fields of the social sciences, and covering a broad range of empirical cases, this book develops new theoretical perspectives. |
Contents
Transnational Diffusion Across Time The Adoption | 19 |
Learning Democracy CrossTime Adaptation | 43 |
Dramatic Diffusion and Meaning Adaptation | 71 |
From Event to Process The EU and the Arab Spring | 91 |
How Did It Spread? | 117 |
The Transnational Dimension of the Greek Protest | 137 |
Occupy London in International and Local Context | 171 |
Other editions - View all
Spreading Protest: Social Movements in Times of Crisis Alice Mattoni,Donatella Della Porta No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
acampadas accessed activism activists actors adoption analysis anti-austerity protests Arab Spring austerity measures campaign chapter collective action communication context counter-summit countries cultural Czech Czech Republic democracy democratic developed diffusion processes economic crisis escrache EU’s Europe European European Social Forum European Union eurozone Facebook financial crisis Flesher Fominaya focus framing Genoa Gezi Global Justice Movement globalisation Graeber Greece Greek groups ideas Indignados injustice-symbols inspiration institutions Internet interpretive package interview Iran issues Kousis LPEs McAdam mobilisations Neda Neda’s neo-liberal networks Occupy London Occupy Wall Street organisational participants parties perspective policies political protest events protestors PSOE relevant repertoires resonance revolutions role Rucht sector Social Forum social media Social Movement Studies social movements social-movement space Spain Spanish spread Square structural struggles symbolic Syntagma Syntagma Square tactics Tahrir Tarrow transnational contention transnational diffusion transnational dimension uprisings wave of protest World Social Forum