Protest publics : toward a new concept of mass civic action /: toward a new concept of mass civic action. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Editors, Nina Belyaeva, Victor Albert and Dmitry G. Zaytsev.
• Editors: Beli︠a︡eva, Nina; (Sociologist), Albert, Victor; Zaytsev, Dmitry G
• Contents: Self-Organized Publics in Mass Protests: An Introduction.- PART I: Dimensions of Protest Publics in the Recent Wave of Unrest.- Exploring Protest Publics: A New Conceptual Frame for Civil Participation Analysis.- Shoulder to Shoulder against Fascism: Publics in Gezi Protests.- Emergent Protest Publics in India and Bangladesh: A Comparative Study of Anti-Corruption and Shahbag Protests.- The Grammar of Protest Publics in Skopje, Macedonia, May 2015.- Retracing Public Protest in Portugal: A Generation in Trouble.- Justification in Protest Publics: The Homeless Workers' Movement in Brazil's Crisis.- So Strong, Yet So Weak: The Emergence of Protest Publics in Iceland in the Wake of the Financial Crisis.- Five Stars of Change: The Transformation of Italian Protest Publics into a Movement Party through Grillo's Blog.- PART II: Protest Publics and Political Change in Different Political Regimes.- Cross-national Comparison of Protest Publics' Roles as Drivers of Change: from Clusters to Models.- Protesters as the "Challengers of the Status-Quo" in Embedded Democracies: The Cases of Iceland, the United Kingdom and the United States.- Protest Publics as the 'Watchdogs' of the Quality of Democracy in Global South.- Protest Publics as the Triggers of Political Changes in Hybrid Regimes: The Cases of Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt.- Protest Publics as Democratic Innovators in an Authoritarian Environment.- The Transforming Role of Protest Publics in Processes of Sociopolitical Change in the Global South and Southern Europe: From Occasional Challengers to Institutionalized Watchdogs.- Conclusion: The Common Features and Different Roles of Protest Publics in Political Contestation.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 303.484; Protest movements; Demonstrations; City planning; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030054755; 3030054756
• Related ISBNs: 9783030054748
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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