Waves of Social Movement Mobilizations in the Twenty-First Century

Challenges to the Neo-Liberal World Order and Democracy

Nahide Konak, Rasim Özgür Dönmez

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2015
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780739196366
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Conservatism & Liberalism
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Based on case studies, this book analyzes a recent wave of social movement and protests in the twenty-first century. It has two overarching broadly defined themes: first, to identify commonalities across the social movements and protests in terms of strategies, desire, hopes as well as the main factors in the decline of the movements. And second, to underline the significance of the general economic, social, and political conditions in which these protests arose. Although there are specific national and local context-specific reasons for the protests observed in different countries, the gradual integration of the post-war neo-liberal hegemonic world order is the fundamental overarching structural factor behind these protests. From Turkey to Spain, Greece to Mexico, and the Netherlands to the U.S., this book observes that the "outsiders" of the system resist against the oppression of the neo-liberal world system.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Introduction
• Seeking (and Finding) Democracy
• The Indignados and the Global Diffusion of Forms of Protest against Authoritarianism and Structural Adjustment Programs
• The Greek Social Movements and an Analysis of the Reactions in Greece to the Gezi Park Protests
• #Yo Soy 132: A Networked Social Movement of Mexican Youth
• Deconstructing a Neopatrimonial System via Humor
• Squatting (in Turkey)
• Occupying Power
• Wildfire Movements Crashing on the Local Trenches
• Political Economy of European Mobilizations
• Conclusion
• Index
• About the Editors and Contributors