Protest in late modern societies: dynamics, forms, futures

"This book discusses a broadly understood phenomenon of protest from several perspectives, including historical, cultural, social, political, environmental and semiotic. Through their analyses, the authors undertake to envision the possible evolution of the forms of contestation in the further decades of the 21st century, taking into account the specificity of the globalization processes. A multi-dimensional approach offered in this volume makes it possible to capture and identify new features of contemporary contestation and those that seem unchanged despite the passage of time and altering audiences. Examples from Europe (France, Great Britain, Italy, Ireland, Malta, Bulgaria, Poland, Belarus, Russia), America (USA, Mexico, Chile) and Far East (Hong Kong & China) are relevant case studies that show the faces of contestation, while reaching for new or modified rhetoric, symbolism, communication channels and the so-called modus operandi of protest initiators, active and passive participants, short- and long-distant observers. The book can be of value to a wide audience, particularly to the researchers studying contestation, social resistance, individual and collective disobedience, crisis management, and cultural/social dynamic of protests. It will also be of interested to experts and individuals from outside the academia like civil activists, practitioners and NGOs compelled by contemporary processes (tensions) occurring between the state, power, society and individuals"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 1917 Russian revolutions: success, collapse and today's consequences -- 2 With the intention to be subjective: the rhetoric of contemporary liberal media in Russia -- 3 Semantic opposition of US versus THEM in late 2020 Russian-language Belarusian discourse: synchronic and diachronic aspects -- 4 The dynamics of the 2020-2021 protests in Bulgaria -- 5 Crisis of capitalism and its effect on voters' attitudes in the Western world -- 6 "Kill the Bill" protests in British politics -- 7 Women's social movement to end violence against women: the case of Chile -- 8 Women's "Black Protest" in Poland: symbolism and performance as (un)effective negotiation in political discourse -- 9 Turpism and anti-aestheticism of political struggle for Sami rights in Norway -- 10 The wind of protest goes . . . and then returns: feminist movements in Italy from the 1970s to the 2020s -- 11 People power: dissent and reaction in twentieth-century colonial Malta -- 12 From the Poor People's Campaign to the Poor People's Campaign: fifty years of protest in the United States -- 13 Model of inclusive civil socio-ecological culture as a novel form of protest: the case of the Water Pedagogical Forest -- 14 Chinese media coverage of Hong Kong's anti-government protests in the context of Chinese nationalism -- Index.

"This book discusses a broadly understood phenomenon of protest from several perspectives, including historical, cultural, social, political, environmental and semiotic. Through their analyses, the authors undertake to envision the possible evolution of the forms of contestation in the further decades of the 21st century, taking into account the specificity of the globalization processes. A multi-dimensional approach offered in this volume makes it possible to capture and identify new features of contemporary contestation and those that seem unchanged despite the passage of time and altering audiences. Examples from Europe (France, Great Britain, Italy, Ireland, Malta, Bulgaria, Poland, Belarus, Russia), America (USA, Mexico, Chile) and Far East (Hong Kong & China) are relevant case studies that show the faces of contestation, while reaching for new or modified rhetoric, symbolism, communication channels and the so-called modus operandi of protest initiators, active and passive participants, short- and long-distant observers. The book can be of value to a wide audience, particularly to the researchers studying contestation, social resistance, individual and collective disobedience, crisis management, and cultural/social dynamic of protests. It will also be of interested to experts and individuals from outside the academia like civil activists, practitioners and NGOs compelled by contemporary processes (tensions) occurring between the state, power, society and individuals"--