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Tag Archives: protest movements
Nov 25 2019
It’s Not the Left: Ideology and Protest Participation
Comments Off on It’s Not the Left: Ideology and Protest ParticipationBy Filip Kostelka & Jan Rovny Who participates in protests? Much literature assumes that economic left-leaning individuals are expected to protest more than right-leaning ones. However, Filip Kostelka and Jan Rovny question this assumption and suggests that there is no … Continue reading
Posted by: November 25, 2019
Tagged with: Central and Eastern Europe, cleavages, left wing politics, protest movements, protests
Sep 8 2015
Lebanon: contesting trash politics
Comments Off on Lebanon: contesting trash politicsBy Adham Saouli The 29 of August 2015 may one day be remembered as historic in Lebanon’s turbulent history. At 6pm angry people from different ages, walks of life, regions, and sectarian communities began to gather in Martyr’s Square in … Continue reading
Posted by: September 8, 2015
Tagged with: anti-establishment, contentious politics, Corruption, elites, Indignados, Lebanon, protest movements, sectarianism, trash politics
Mar 13 2014
Radical Democracy and Collective Movements Today: Hegemony and Autonomy
2 CommentsBy Marina Prentoulis and Lasse Thomassen The 2011 movements of the squares, the ‘aganaktismenoi’ and ‘indignados’ as they came to be known in Greece and Spain respectively, brought to the forefront old and unresolved debates on the Left. During the … Continue reading
Posted by: March 13, 2014
Tagged with: Aganaktismenoi, anti capitalist movements, extreme left wing politics, Indignados, KKE, protest movements, radical democracy