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This book guides the reader through the many complications and contradictions that characterize popular contestation today, focusing on its socio-political, cultural, and aesthetic dimensions. The volume recognizes that the same media and creative strategies can be used to pursue very different causes, as the anti-gay marriage Manif Pour Tous movement in France makes clear. The contributors are scholars from the humanities and social sciences, who analyze protests in particular regions, including Egypt, Iran, Australia, France, Spain, Greece, and Hong Kong, and transnational protests such as the NSA-leaks and the mobilization of migrants and refugees. Not only the specificity of these protest movements is examined, but also their tendency to connect and influence each other, as well as the central, often ambiguous role global digital platforms play in this.
About the author
Esther Peeren is Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Analysis and Vice-Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS) at the University of Amsterdam.
Robin Celikates is Associate Professor of Political and Social Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, where he also directs the NWO-funded research project Transformations of Civil Disobedience.
Jeroen de Kloet is Professor of Globalisation Studies and Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS) at the University of Amsterdam.
Thomas Poell is Assistant Professor of New Media & Digital Culture and Program Director of the Research Master Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
Robin Celikates is Associate Professor of Political and Social Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, where he also directs the NWO-funded research project Transformations of Civil Disobedience.
Jeroen de Kloet is Professor of Globalisation Studies and Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS) at the University of Amsterdam.
Thomas Poell is Assistant Professor of New Media & Digital Culture and Program Director of the Research Master Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
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