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Book SynopsisUsing case studies from around the world, this book analyzes the recent wave of social movement and protests.
Trade ReviewA critical research collection, written by inspiring social movements' scholars, comprises case studies from Tunisia, Spain, Greece, Iceland, Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States, Mexico, and Turkey. In about seven years and more (2008–2015) of the enduring global political-economic crisis and its repercussions, we are witnessing not only waves of social movement mobilizations but also a more mature, rich, and creative theoretical and empirical scholarship as offered by this book. -- Miri Gal-Ezer, Kinneret College
Situating the recent wave of social movements within a broader, global, context marked by, among other things, the failures of the neoliberal world order, this collection of essays brings a much-needed comparative dimension to the analysis of 'contentious politics' in the twenty-first century. A valuable contribution to the growing field of social movement studies. -- Umut Ozkirimli, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University
This book provides a very sophisticated and thoroughly insightful analysis of social mobilization at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is an innovative and remarkably perceptive study of the significance and varieties of contemporary social mobilizations and their consequences. -- Bogdan Szajkowski, University of Exeter
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Seeking (and Finding) Democracy, Mark Purcell Chapter 2: The Indignados and the Global Diffusion of Forms of Protest Against Authoritarianism and Structural Adjustment Programs, Ernesto Castañeda Chapter 3: The Greek Social Movements and an Analysis of the Reaction in Greece to the Gezi Park Protests, Gökçe Bayındır Goularas Chapter 4: # Yo Soy 132: A Networked Social Movement of Mexican Youth, Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda Chapter 5: Deconstructing Neo-Patrimonial System via Humor: Gezi Park “Çapulcu” Protests in Turkey, Nahide Konak and Rasim Özgür Dönmez Chapter 6: Squatting (in Turkey): A Practice of Transforming Public Spaces into Commons?, Helga Rittersberger-Tılıç Chapter 7: Occupying Power: Strategies for Change in Occupy London, Sam Halvorsen and Simon Thorpe Chapter 8: Wildfire Movement’s Crashing on the Local Trenches: A Comparison of Occupy Los Angeles and Occupy Amsterdam, Walter Nicholls and Justus Uitermark Chapter 9: Political Economy of European Mobilization: Why Did the Anti-Austerity Movements Fail, Beyza Ç. Tekin and Rıfat Barış Tekin
