Protest Cultures A Companion (protest, Culture And Society) [Hardcover]

Protest is a ubiquitous and richly varied social phenomenon, one that finds expression not only in modern social movements and political organizations but also in grassroots initiatives, individual action, and creative works. It constitutes a distinct cultural domain, one whose symbolic content is regularly deployed by media and advertisers, among other actors. Yet within social movement scholarship, such cultural considerations have been comparatively neglected.Protest Cultures: A Companiondramatically expands the analytical perspective on protest beyond its political and sociological aspects. It combines cutting-edge synthetic essays with concise, accessible case studies on a remarkable array of protest cultures, outlining key literature and future lines of inquiry.

Martin Klimkeis Associate Professor at New York University Abu Dhabi. He is the author ofThe Other Alliance: Global Protest and Student Unrest in West Germany and the US, 19621972(2010) and co-author ofA Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, AfricanAmerican GIs, and Germany(2010).

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Acknowledgments

Introduction
(Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Martin Klimke, and Joachim Scharloth

PART I: PERSPECTIVES ON PROTEST

Chapter 1.Protest in Social Movements
Donatella Della Porta

Chapter 2.Protest Cultures in Social Movements: Dimensions and Functions(
Dieter Rucht

Chapter 3.Protest in the Research on Sub- and Countercultures(
Rupa Huq

Chapter 4.Protest as Symbolic Politics
Jana G?nther

Chapter 5.Protest and Lifestyle
Nick Crossley

Chapter 6.Protest as Artistic Exprelcn