Protests as Events - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Protests as Events write by Ian R. Lamond. This book was released on 2014-11-05. Protests as Events available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Protests as Events: Politics, Activism and Leisure is an edited collection that explores activism as a leisure activity and protests as events.
World Protests
World Protests - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook World Protests write by Isabel Ortiz. This book was released on 2021-11-03. World Protests available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is an open access book. The start of the 21st century has seen the world shaken by protests, from the Arab Spring to the Yellow Vests, from the Occupy movement to the social uprisings in Latin America. There are periods in history when large numbers of people have rebelled against the way things are, demanding change, such as in 1848, 1917, and 1968. Today we are living in another time of outrage and discontent, a time that has already produced some of the largest protests in world history. This book analyzes almost three thousand protests that occurred between 2006 and 2020 in 101 countries covering over 93 per cent of the world population. The study focuses on the major demands driving world protests, such as those for real democracy, jobs, public services, social protection, civil rights, global justice, and those against austerity and corruption. It also analyzes who was demonstrating in each protest; what protest methods they used; who the protestors opposed; what was achieved; whether protests were repressed; and trends such as inequality and the rise of women’s and radical right protests. The book concludes that the demands of protestors in most of the protests surveyed are in full accordance with human rights and internationally agreed-upon UN development goals. The book calls for policy-makers to listen and act on these demands.
Protests and the Media
Protests and the Media - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Protests and the Media write by Giedre Kubiliute. This book was released on 2024-02-23. Protests and the Media available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This insightful volume critically explores activist events in their scale and their capacity to attract media attention through a critical event studies lens, offering new perspectives on protests and social movement. This book conceives events of dissent as the public manifestation of counter-narratives that articulate advocacy for policy change. It focuses on the material and virtual manifestation of protest events and the media response to them, associated with three active social movements – Reclaim These Streets, Extinction Rebellion, and Black Lives Matter. In doing so, the text sheds light on how different political orientations within the media articulate the representation of events of dissent manifest by these groups, and how this results in significantly different opinion-forming statements on the issues behind those movements, as well as how this reflects mediated assessment of the responses of politicians, the public, and emergency service responses to protest events. Furthermore, it will explore the role of the Internet in the organisation of protest events and their part in the formation of networks of resistance, enabling the roll out of events with a global reach – demonstrated, more recently, by protests across many European cities against the war in Ukraine. This timely and significant book will appeal to scholars of and those interested in events tourism, protest, political communication, and media, amongst others.
Street Citizens
Street Citizens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Street Citizens write by Marco Giugni. This book was released on 2019-04-04. Street Citizens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explains the character of contemporary protest politics through a micro-mobilization analysis of participation in street demonstrations.
Protest Publics
Protest Publics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Protest Publics write by Nina Belyaeva. This book was released on 2019-05-10. Protest Publics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the waves of protest that broke out in the 2010s as the collective actions of self-organized publics. Drawing on theories of publics/counter-publics and developing an analytical framework that allows the comparison of different country cases, this volume explores the transformation from spontaneous demonstrations, driven by civic outrage against injustice to more institutionalized forms of protest. Presenting comparative research and case studies on e.g. the Portuguese Generation in Trouble, the Arab Spring in Northern Africa, or Occupy Wall Street in the USA, the authors explore how protest publics emerge and evolve in very different ways – from creating many small citizen groups focused on particular projects to more articulated political agendas for both state and society. These protest publics have provoked and legitimized concrete socio-political changes, altering the balance of power in specific political spaces, and in some cases generating profound moments of instability that can lead both to revolutions and to peaceful transformations of political institutions. The authors argue that this recent wave of protests is driven by a new type of social actor: self-organized publics. In some cases these protest publics can lead to democratic reform and redistributive policies, while in others they can produce destabilization, ethnic and nationalist populism, and authoritarianism. This book will help readers to better understand how seemingly spontaneous public events and protests evolve into meaningful, well-structured collective action and come to shape political processes in diverse regions of the globe.
