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Revolutions, revolts and protest movements are viewed in the study of politics as belonging together because they take place outside political institutions and, through collective action, involve mobilisation against established practices and the values lying behind them. As the wide variety of cases covered in the four books reviewed show, however, the differences between these revolutionary and protest actions are also striking. These books show that, if carefully chosen, a great deal can be learned from the detailed study of cases about protest movements mobilising both within and across borders and that it furthers our understanding of social movements. Highly valuable lessons on the role of violence in politics are also learned from the studies of revolts and revolutions. Looked at critically, however, the books show that the differences between violence and terror should not be overlooked and that important factors such as ideology can be missed.

The Social Justice Protest movement in 2011 was the largest social movement in Israel's history. The movement received media coverage for almost two months and in all news outlets, despite the protest's broad demands and its overall radical indictment against the economic system and the status quo. This study explores the causes for this extraordinary media coverage. We find that movement characteristics of the leadership's professional background, the media strategies they employed, and the effects of mainstream channels on media tactics were important. We also find that journalists' personal identification with the movement is a key factor leading to the wide and favorable media coverage. Personal identification led many journalists to report favorably on the movement and write supportive opinion columns, to ignore stories that could damage it, to participate and volunteer in movement activities, and to offer their professional skills to help the movement leadership. We propose a tentative model consisting of factors and mechanisms that may explain when personal identification and journalistic activism are more likely to occur.

The problem of the research revolved around the protest movement of Jarada as a social act, in which both the economist and the politician overlap. To address this problem, the researcher analyzed the problem using a systematic combination of ethnography, critical discourse analysis and social history. The researcher analyzed the discourse of Morocco's state on vulnerability, and investigated the rationale for shaping the policies pertaining to the mining fields. Also, he tackled the process of transformations in the field and the population of the study, and identified the factors that brought about these transformations. In addition, the researcher described the daily economic life of the mining population in the past and at present. As mentioned earlier, the protest movement was based on field work. Consequently, the researcher concluded that the movement was part of a socio-historical context that began with the creation of coal mines during the French colonial period.

Since the outbreak of the financial and economic crisis in 2008, Eastern European countries have been affected severely by the crisis through intensified austerity measures, higher unemployment rates, and increasing dissatisfaction with democracy. Against this backdrop, the region has experienced several large-scale protest movements in recent years. The paper critically assesses the state of the art on political participation in Eastern Europe. Special attention is paid to the still underplayed effects of the global economic crisis. Subsequently, the question is raised whether the increased number of protests indicates a deeper societal crisis. Thereby, the authors conclude, Eastern Europe serves to a certain extend as a trendsetter for similar developments in other parts of Europe.

ABSTRACT: This study is based on secondary data and looks at the activities of Multinational Corporation and its impact on global governance from the protests movement point of view. Available data show that multinational corporations derive at least a quarter of their revenue outside their home countries. However, the debate is how significant do they contribute to development or involve in activities that lead to human and economic deprivation of host communities. The study reveals that the benefits are not enough compared to the damages. The multinational corporation uses global governance institutions to back up their interests and always get preferred treatment. The host communities who feel exploited are not happy but the multinational corporations are always innovative so, there is hope towards finding solutions. In this regard therefore, the relevant stakeholders should be engaged towards collective decision making and problem-solving in a participatory manner for effective global governance.

The Green Party evolved out of a number of protest movements of the late 1960s and 1970s and became a major political factor in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1983 when it drew enough votes to send twenty-seven members to the Bundestag. The author follows the party's rise from new social and ecological groups to its current place in the Federal parliament and provincial legislatures. He addresses the questions raised by Green Party members and by the unrest they have engendered--whether they believe in parliamentary democracy, what effect their policy of replacing delegates in parliament at midsession will have on the parliament and the party, and how they relate to Germany's traditional political parties. The answers to these and other questions form the background for an appraisal of the Green party in which the author traces the development of its role from a political irritant to a factor of serious influence.

Chinese students participating in the 1989 prodemocracy protests were significantly influenced by recent foment among elite Chinese intellectuals. The democracy movement was shaped by an overall ideology of intellectuals, but also by specific & contrasting currents of thought. Here, differences among natural scientists, social scientists, & literary intellectuals are examined with regard to their views on democracy & social change. The influence of each on students is considered, & it is suggested that senior intellectuals were not the immediate guides of the movement. Intellectuals discussed include Fang Lizhe, Liu Binyan, Wang Ruowang, Liu Xiaobo, & the "misty poets.". 42 References. AA

Wie konstituieren sich Räume über soziale Handlungen und wie konstituieren sie soziale Handlungen? Wir gehen dieser Fragestellung in unserem Beitrag nach und untersuchen, wie sich Protestierende Räume aneignen, indem sie Straßen und öffentliche Gebäude besetzen und bestimmte Atmosphären erzeugen und verbreiten. Das phänomenologische Konzept der Sinnprovinzen von Alfred SCHÜTZ nutzen wir als heuristisches Mittel, um die Vielfalt von Protestatmosphären mit ihren räumlichen, affektiven und epistemischen Dimensionen zu erfassen. Aus dieser Perspektive beschreiben wir Proteste in Südafrika und Senegal, wo "Straße" und Medien aufeinandertreffen. Unser Forschungsmaterial umfasst Dokumente, Tweets, online gesammeltes Videomaterial und ethnografische Interviews. In unserer Analyse geht es insbesondere darum aufzuzeigen, wie verkörperte Praktiken bestimmte Sinnprovinzen und Protestatmosphären produzieren und welche Rolle dabei Praktiken sozialer Medien in der Hervorbringung und in der räumlichen Konstituierung von Protesten spielen. Wir liefern mit unserem Beitrag damit nicht nur ein Beispiel dafür, wie sozialer Raum durch Protest geschaffen und refiguriert wird, sondern ermöglichen auch ein tiefergehendes Verständnis der situativen Entstehung von Protesten als kollektivem Handeln, durch das "Wir-Erfahrungen" erzeugt werden. Der phänomenologische Blick geht dabei über den weit verbreiteten Geist-Körper-Dualismus hinaus, der vielen Interpretationen sozialer Bewegungskulturen zugrunde liegt.