Recent years have seen a new development in the growth and spread of popular protest: protests that began as local, homogeneous events-such as Occupy Wall Street or the protests of the Arab Spring-quickly left their original locations and local specificity behind and became global. This book looks at the development of this wave of protests, with an eye on protests against austerity and neoliberal economic policies, and offers a global view, covering events in Turkey, Brazil, Venezuela, South Africa, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and other locations.

Donatella della Porta is professor of sociology at the Scuola Normale Superiore, where she directs the Centre on Social Movement Studies.

1. Riding the Wave: Protest Cascades, and What We Can Learn from ThemDonatella della Porta2. The Spirit of Gezi: A Relational Approach to Eventful Protest and Its ChallengesDonatella della Porta and Kivanc Atak3. Brazil’s Popular Awakening — June 2013: Accounting for the Onset of a New Cycle of ContentionMariana S. Mendes4. Making sense of 'La Salida': Challenging Left-Wing Control in VenezuelaJuan Masullo5. The Marikana Massacre and Labour Protest in South AfricaFrank O’Connor6. Left in Translation: The Curious Absence of an Austerity Narrative in the 2013 Bulgarian ProtestsJulia Rone7. 'Sow Hunger, Reap Anger': From Neoliberal Privatization to New Collective Identities in Bosnia HerzegovinaChiara Milan8. A Spirit of Maidan? Contentious Escalation in UkraineDaniel P. Ritter9. Riding the Wave: Some ConclusionsDonatella della Porta