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.
Author(s): Donatella della Porta
Series: Protest And Social Movements, 11
Edition: 1
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Year: 2017
Language: English
Commentary: TruePDF
Pages: 265
Tags: Neoliberalism; Protest Movements: Cross-Cultural Studies; Protest Movements: History: 21st Century
Cover
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
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
Bibliography
Index
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
Figure 1.1 – Explaining the movement’s spirit
Figure 2.1 – Occupational profile of the labor force participants in Turkey (Jan. 2014)
Figure 2.2 – Population size (shades) and Gezi Park protests (dots) at provincial level, May-September 2013
Figure 2.3 – Gezi Park protests at district level (shades) and neighborhood forums (dots) in Istanbul, May-September 2013
Figure 2.4 – Number of protest events and participants in Turkey, 2011-2013
Figure 2.5 – Protests by main action forms, 2011-2013 (%)
Figure 3.1 – Evolution of Economic Classes, 1992-2009
Figure 3.2 – Number of Protesters, June 17th-28th*
Figure 3.3 – Public perceptions of Brazil’s main problems
Figure 4.1 – Protest events per month, 2014
Figure 4.2 – Protest events per semester, 2012-2014
Figure 4.3 – Homicide rate, 2000-2012
Figure 4.4 – Total homicides, 2000-2012
Figure 4.5 – Inflation, 2000-2014
Tables
Table 2.1 – List of classified protest issues (%)
Table 2.2 – Protests by classified organizations (%)
Table 2.3 – Selected protest characteristics and police coercion (%)
Table 4.1 – Breakdown of the central claims in 2014 protest events
