Based on a comparative analysis of seven youth movements, this article shows the rise rhetoric intergenerational injustice over past decade, increasingly associated with direct accusation older generations and generational global ‘we’. Theoritically, we propose to approach ‘generational voice’ – rather than ‘presence’ shed light grievances, emotions identities carried within movements. We draw ...

The 1989 Tian’anmen Square Protest and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution are two of most influential non-violent protests at junction 20th century 21st century. Although they share many similarities, movements reached completely different results: was harshly repressed by Chinese government, whereas successfully overthrew authoritarian Mubarak government. existing research has attributed destinies r...

This article explores the terrain of social conflict as it developed across advanced capitalist democracies throughout ‘age austerity’ that followed global economic crisis. It shows how a (broadly defined) working class mobilised in different ways contexts, contesting institutional forms (and crises emerged from them) which constitute each particular model capitalism. Considered this way, we ar...

This paper is to explain how the fusion of social movements and new media produces movements. The author himself raised #R4bia movement in Egypt around world as a form protest solidarity with leader Egyptian state President Morsi (2012-2013) was overthrown by Abdul Fattah as-Sisi military coup June 2013. symbol became trending topic on various platforms. media. technology not historically value...

Protest event analysis is a key method to study social movements, allowing systematically analyze protest events over time and space. However, the manual coding of time-consuming resource intensive. Recently, advances in automated approaches offer opportunities code multiple sources create large data sets that span many countries years. too often procedures used are not discussed details and, t...

This article explores the relationship between protest, violence and possibility of a politics without violence. It argues that protest is not only valid but also necessary vehicle for journey towards Nevertheless, can emerge within protests as well in response to them. The will propose thinking tool understanding phenomenon with multiple expressions. discusses movements de-sanction research ha...

The classic heuristics of voting behaviour have been eroded overtime especially in well-established democracies. Ideology, party identification, and social class gradually replaced by short-period factors. In particular, the personalization has represented an innovative variable that significantly contributes to explain behaviour. Cross-pressures between candidate assessments issue preferences ...

The protection of legitimate political protest is one of the hallmarks of a functional liberal democracy. Certainly, there is increasing legal debate about the parameters of what constitutes legitimate protest and the appropriate scope of police powers to regulate it. However, there is no widespread call for the dismantling of the concept of a right to protest. The same consensus is not present...

In this paper, we introduce a case study of social protest that has occurred in the virtual world Second Life. This case is a labor strike that occurred against IBM by Italian employees and a large European labor union. We begin with identifying the four key elements in the protest organizing process: Identifying Supporters, Organizing and Establishing Hierarchy, Getting the Word Out, and Build...