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In recent times, international and national media have been full of stories about protest movements and tumultuous social upheaval from Tunisia to California. But scholars have not yet fully addressed the connection between these movements and the media and communication channels through which their messages spread. Correcting that imbalance, Mediation and Protest Movements explores the nature of the relationship between protest movements, media representation, and communication strategies and tactics. By covering online and offline contexts, as well as mainstream and alternative media, Mediation and Protest Movements bridges the gap between social-movement theory and media and communication studies, making this an important text for students and scholars of the media and social change

Intro -- Half Title -- Endorsements -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Of stories and theory -- Claims and interventions -- The woman in prayer again -- Notes -- 1. Faithful fasting: the Indian independence movement -- India's religious context -- Gandhi's religious formation -- South African religious and political roots -- Violence and nonviolence in political campaigns -- Gandhi's 1924 Hindu-Muslim fast -- The Salt March -- The Dalit fasts -- Fasting through independence and partition -- Political and religious unity through to the end -- Religion as a coercive element of Gandhi's fasts -- Notes -- 2. Invoking violence: the civil rights movement -- Central argument and frame -- First forays into public prayer protest -- Prayer pilgrimage for civil rights -- Breadth of 1957s prayer activity -- Emerging uses of prayer -- From Berkeley to Burgland - prayer protest rising -- The period of piety: 1962-66 -- Violence rising in 1963 -- Activist and status quo prayers in contrast -- 1966: protest prayer ascendant -- Prayer persistent, potent, and descending -- Gender and violence in public protest prayer -- Respectability and freedom through public prayer -- Notes -- 3. Sacred surety: divine mandate and violence in the antiabortion movement -- Early twentieth-century abortion context -- Roe and its aftermath -- Operation Rescue emergent -- Violence and Operation Rescue -- Violence of the 1990s -- Christian Identity's influence -- Sacred surety redux -- Sidewalk confrontations -- Theories of religion and violence -- Sacred surety at work -- Notes -- 4. The Pope and the Black Madonna: ritual, word, and movement in the Polish Solidarity movement -- Introducing the Black Madonna -- The ritual of the Black Madonna pilgrimage -- Arresting the Black Madonna and the aftermath -- A Pope's visit.

Protest mobilization and outcome; Political participation; Emotions and social ties; Deportation nation; Refugees; Pro-migrant protest; Anti-migrant protest

This open access book deals with contestations "from below" of legal policies and implementation practices in asylum and deportation. Consequently, it covers three types of mobilization: solidarity protests against the deportation of refused asylum seekers, refugee activism campaigning for residence rights and inclusion, and restrictive protests against the reception of asylum seekers. By applying both a longitudinal analysis of protest events and a series of in-depth case studies in three immigration countries, this edited volume provides comparative insights into these three types of movement in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland over a time span of twenty-five years. Embedded in concepts of political change, limited state sovereignty, and migration control, the findings shed light on actors, repertoires, and the effects of protest activities. The contributions illustrate how local contexts, national political settings, issue specifics, and social ties lead to distinctly different forms of protest emergence, dynamics, and strategies. Additionally, they give a profound understanding of the mechanisms and constellations that contribute to protest success, both in terms of preventing deportations of individuals as well as changing policies. In sum, this book constitutes a major contribution to empirically informed theoretical reflections on collective contestation in the fields of refugee studies and social protest movements.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1 The Forests for the Trees -- 2 Rebel Spaces -- 3 Links in the Chain -- 4 Invasion and Occupation -- 5 Eviction and Occupation: Austerity and the Global Recession -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

Introduction / Umut Özkirimli -- A moment of elation : the Gezi protests/resistance and the fading of the AKP project / Soliözel -- Brand Turkey and the Gezi protests : authoritarianism in flux, law, and neoliberalism / Asli Igsiz -- Gülenism : the middle way or official ideology? / Cihan Tugal -- Can the spirit of Gezi transform progressive politics in Turkey? / Onur Bakiner -- White turks, black turks, and negroes : the politics of polarization / Michael Ferguson -- Occupy Gezi as politics of the body / Zeynep Gambetti -- Cruising politics : sexuality, solidarity and modularity after Gezi / Emrah Yildiz -- Urban utopias and how they fell apart : the political ecology of Gezi park? / Ömür Harmansah -- In lieu of conclusion : rallying for Gezi, or metaphors of aporia and empowerment / Spyros A. Sofos -- Timeline of Gezi protests

"This book examines how different levels and forms of human collectivity have interacted, voluntarily or coercively, and how these transformed societies and polities. Every size and type of human collective involves co-operation among members and competition with other groups. The two most recent trends in human relations - individualism and economic globalisation - have contributed to authoritarianism in politics and inequality among citizens. This book analyses how collective action might offset the most destructive consequences for well-being of these two tendencies. It explores these manifestations of collective action and their impact on social relations and social policies in the developed world. Further, the volume sets out a programme for more progressive and egalitarian future for global populations. Engaging, accessible and transdisciplinary, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics and public policy, sociology, social psychology, social policy, and social work, as well as political philosophy, political economy, and migration studies"--