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Protest: Analysing Current Trends

By Matthew Johnson , Samid Suliman

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2014
ISBN
1138841080, 9781138841086
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1012 kB (1036663 bytes)
Pages
296\0
Time added
2022-08-05 14:01:29

Description

The politics of the twenty-first century is marked by dissent, tumult and calls for radical change, whether through food riots, anti-war protests, anti-government tirades, anti-blasphemy marches, anti-austerity demonstrations, anti-authoritarian movements and anti-capitalist occupations. Interestingly, contemporary political protests are borne of both the Right and Left and are staged in both the Global North and South. Globally, different instances of protest have drawn attention to the deep fissures which challenge the idea of globalisation as a force for peace. Given the diversity of these protests, it is necessary to examine the particular nature of grievances, the sort of change which is sought and the extent to which localised protest can have global implications. The contributions in this book draw on the theoretical work of Hardt and Negri, David Graeber and Judith Butler, among others, in order explore the nature of hegemony, the Occupy movement, the Arab Spring, the responses

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