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 l...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Della Porta, Donatella, 1956- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
Series:Protest and social movements ; 11.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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 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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789048531356
9048531357