What is the relationship between economic crises and protest behaviour? Does the experience of austerity, or economic hardship more broadly defined, create a gr

In this book a set of theoretical and methodological resources are presented to study the way in which protest, resistance and social movement discourses circul

Recent years have seen an enormous increase in protests across the world in which citizens have challenged what they see as a deterioration of democratic instit

The book explores the diffusion of protest against austerity and free trade agreements in the wave of contention that shook the EU following the 2008 economic c

This collection is designed to offer a comparative analysis of street-level protest movements, setting them in international, socio-economic, and cross-cultural