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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Protest and social movements ;
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789048531356 9048531357 |