Global Diffusion of Protest / / edited by Donatella della Porta.

• TeilnehmendeR: Della Porta, Donatella, 1956-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, [2017]; ©[2017]
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Protest and social movements ; 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 pages) :; illustrations, maps.

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.

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.