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Book SynopsisRecent 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.
Table of Contents1. 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 Labour Protest in South Africa Frank O’Connor 6. Left in Translation: The Curious Absence of an Austerity Narrative 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
