Popular Protest, Political Opportunities, and Change in Africa
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Popular Protest, Political Opportunities, and Change in Africa

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
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Popular Protest, Political Opportunities, and Change in Africa

About this book

This book offers a fresh analysis of third wave popular protests in Africa, shedding light on the complex dynamics between political change and continuity in contemporary Africa.

The book argues that protests are simultaneously products and generators of change in that they are triggered by micro-and-macrosocial changes, but they also have the capacity to transform the nature of politics. By examining the triggers, actors, political opportunities, resources and framing strategies, the contributors shed light onto tangible (e.g. policy implementation, liberal reforms, political alternation) and intangible (e.g. perceptions, imagination, awareness) forms of change elicited by protests. It reveals the relevant role of African protests as engines of democracy, accountability and collective knowledge.

Bringing popular protests in authoritarian and democratic settings into discussion, this book will be of interest to scholars of African politics, democracy and protest movements.

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Yes, you can access Popular Protest, Political Opportunities, and Change in Africa by Edalina Rodrigues Sanches in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & African Politics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of contributors
  8. 1 Introduction: Zooming in on protest and change in Africa
  9. 2 Shaking up democracy from below: Protest and change in Cabo Verde
  10. 3 Popular protest, resources, and political opportunities in Ghana: Contextualising the case of Occupy Ghana
  11. 4 Y'en a marre: Catalyst for an indocility grammar in Senegal
  12. 5 Nothing will be as before? The 2014 insurrection in Burkina Faso and its political impact
  13. 6 Feminist demands, opportunities, and frames: Strategic silencing within Morocco's February 20 movement?
  14. 7 Social movements in rural Africa: How and why mozambican state closed the prosavana program
  15. 8 We got a taste for protest! Leadership transition and political opportunities for protest in Angola's resilient authoritarian regime
  16. 9 How January 2015 protests influenced Joseph Kabila's strategy of “glissement”
  17. 10 From voting to walking: The 2011 walk-to-work protest movement in Uganda
  18. 11 Anatomies of protest and the trajectories of the actors at play: Ethiopia 2015–2018
  19. 12 Pro-democracy protests in the Kingdom of Eswatini 2018–2019
  20. 13 Conclusion: Comparative implications and new directions
  21. Index