Spreading Protest

Donatella della Porta is Professor of Political Science at the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane (on leave of absence) and Professor of Sociology in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute. In 2011, she was awarded the Mattei Dogan Prize for distinguished achievements in the field of political sociology. Her main fields of research are social movements, the policing of public order, participatory democracy, and political corruption. Among her very recent publications are: Mobilizing for Democracy. Comparing 1989 and 2011 (Oxford University Press 2014); Can Democracy be Saved? (Polity Press 2013); Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Social and Political Movements (edited with D. Snow, B. Klandermans, and D. McAdam, Blackwell 2013); Clandestine Political Violence (Cambridge University Press 2013); Mobilizing on the Extreme Right (with M. Caiani and C. Wagemann, Oxford University Press 2012); Meeting Democracy (co-edited with D. Rucht, Cambridge University Press 2012). Alice Mattoni is a research fellow in the Centre for Social Movement Studies (COSMOS) at the European University Institute, working with the Anticorrpt research team. Before joining COSMOS, she was a Postdoctoral Associate Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. Alice obtained her Master of Research and PhD in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute. She is a co-convener of the ECPR Standing Group Participation and Mobilization and an editor of Interface: a Journal for and about Social Movements. Among her recent publications are Research in Social Movements, Conflict and Change: Advances in the visual analysis of social movements (co-edited with N. Doerr and S. Teune, Emerald 2013); Mediation and Protest Movements(co-edited with B. Cammaerts and P. McCurdy, Intellect 2013); and Media Practices and Protest Politics. How precarious workers mobilise (Ashgate 2012).

Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
List of Abbreviations ix
Contributors xi
Preface and Acknowledgements xvii
Part I – What Spread?
Chapter One: Patterns of Diffusion and the Transnational Dimension of
Protest in the Movements of the Crisis: An Introduction 1
Donatella della Porta and Alice Mattoni
Chapter Two: Transnational Diffusion Across Time: The Adoption of
the Argentinian Dirty War `Escrache’ in the Context of Spain’s Housing
Crisis 19
Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Antonio Montañés Jimenéz
Chapter Three: Learning Democracy: Cross-Time Adaptation in
Organisational Repertoires 43
Donatella della Porta
Chapter Four: Dramatic Diffusion and Meaning Adaptation:
The Case of Neda 71
Thomas Olesen
Chapter Five: From Event to Process: The EU and the `Arab Spring’ 91
Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen
Part II – How Did It Spread?
Chapter Six: They Don’t Represent Us! The Global Resonance of the
Real Democracy Movement from the Indignados to Occupy 117
Jérôme E. Roos and Leonidas Oikonomakis
vi Spreading Protest: Social Movements in Times of Crisis
Chapter Seven: The Transnational Dimension of the Greek Protest
Campaign Against Troika Memoranda and Austerity Policies,
2010−2012 137
Maria Kousis
Chapter Eight: Occupy London in International and Local Context 171
Nikos Sotirakopoulos and Christopher Rootes
Part III – Why Did it Spread?
Chapter Nine: Breaks and Continuities in and Between Cycles of Protest:
Memories and Legacies of the Global Justice Movement in the Context
of Anti-Austerity Mobilisations 193
Lorenzo Zamponi and Priska Daphi
Chapter Ten: Towards a `Non-Global Justice Movement’? Two Paths
to Re-Scaling the Left Contention in the Czech Republic 227
Jiří Navrátil and Ondřej Císař
Chapter Eleven: Flap of the Butterfly: Turkey’s June Uprisings 253
Kivanc Atak
Chapter Twelve: Adapting Theories on Diffusion and Transnational
Contention Through Social Movements of the Crisis: Some
Concluding Remarks 277
Alice Mattoni and Donatella della Porta
Index 293