Spreading protest : social movements in times of crisis

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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. … full description

Bibliographic Details

Other Authors

Donatella Della Porta, 1956-
Alice Mattoni, 1978-

Document Type

Books

Physical Description

200 s. ;

Published

Colchester : ECPR Press, 2014

Series

ECPR - studies in European political science

Subjects

sociální média

sociální hnutí

protestní hnutí

politické aspekty

ISBN

978-1-910259-20-7