Spreading Protest Social Movements in Times of Crisis [Hardcover]

This book discusses the recent wave of global mobilisations from an unusual angle, explaining what aspects of protests spread from one country to another, how this happened, and why diffusion occurred in certain contexts but not in othersWhich elements do the Arab Spring, the Indignados and Occupy Wall Street have in common? How do they differ? What do they share with social movements of the past? This book discusses the recent wave of global mobilisations from an unusual angle, explaining what aspects of protests spread from one country to another, how this happened, and why diffusion occurred in certain contexts but not in others. In doing this, the book casts light on the more general mechanisms of protest diffusion in contemporary societies, explaining how mobilisations travel from one country to another and, also, from past to present times.Bridging different fields of the social sciences, and covering a broad range of empirical cases, this book develops new theoretical perspectives.ContentsList of Figures and Tables viiList of Abbreviations ixContributors xiPreface and Acknowledgements xviiPart I  What Spread?Chapter One: Patterns of Diffusion and the Transnational Dimension ofProtest in the Movements of the Crisis: An Introduction 1Donatella della Porta and Alice MattoniChapter Two: Transnational Diffusion Across Time: The Adoption ofthe Argentinian Dirty War Escrache in the Context of Spains HousingCrisis 19Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Antonio Monta??s Jimen?zChapter Three: Learning Democracy: Cross-Time Adaptation inOrganisational Repertoires 43Donatella della PortaChapter Four: Dramatic Diffusion and Meaning Adaptation:The Case of Neda 71Thomas OlesenChapter Five: From Event to Process: The EU and the Arab Spring 91Ari-Elmeri Hyv?nenPart II  How Did It Spread?Chapter Six: They Dont Represent Us! The Global Resonance of theReal Democracy Movement from the Indignados to Occupy 117J?r?me E. Roos and Leonidas Oikonomakisvi Spreading Protest: Social Molã8