Protest in Late Modern Societies

Monika Banaś is Professor at the Faculty of International and Political Studies at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. Her research focuses on culture, politics and their mutual dependencies. She has published on migration and integration policies, political culture and political symbolism. Her works include Integration Policy as a Challenge for European Cohesion in Politické Vedy (2022), Swedish Migrant Integration Policy After 2015: A Revised Approach in the Shadow of the Migration Crisis in Fuori Luogo (2021), The Cultural Potential of Femipolitics in Ireland at the Turn of the 20. and 21. Centuries (in Polish) in Kobiety w polityce (2020). She is the chief editor of the academic journal Intercultural Relations. Ruslan Saduov is Assistant Professor at Innopolis University, a holder of Fulbright and Slovak National Fellowships, designer and director of Fundamental and Applied Linguistics Program at Bashkir State University and a provider of translation and interpretation services. He has designed and taught academic courses, such as academic writing, public speaking, forensic linguistics and translation. His research areas include multimodal texts, linguistic landscape, political linguistics and cross-cultural communication. He has authored over 90 publications, including Multilingualism and Identity in the Visual Space: Linguistic Landscape in the Urban Periphery (2022) and co-edited anthologies, such as Linguistic and Cultural Landscape: At the Crossroads of Research Paradigms (2021).

Introduction

1. 1917 Russian revolutions: Success, collapse and today’s consequences

2. With the intention to be subjective: The rhetoric of contemporary liberal media in Russia

3. Semantic opposition of US vs THEM in late 2020 Russian-language Belarusian discourse: Synchronic and diachronic aspects

4. The dynamics of the 2020-2021 protests in Bulgaria

5. The crisis of capitalism and its effect on voters' attitudes in the Western world

6. ‘Kill the Bill’ protests in British politics

7. The women's social movement to end violence against women: The case of Chile

8. Women’s ‘Black Protest’ in Poland. Symbolism and performance as (un)effective negotiation in political discourse

9. Turpism and anti-aestheticism of political struggle for Sami rights in Norway

10. The wind of protest goes ... and then returns. Feminist movements in Italy from the 1970s to the 2020s

11. People power: Dissent and reaction in 20th century colonial Malta

12. From the Poor People’s Campaign to the Poor People’s Campaign: Fifty years of protest in the USA

13. Model of inclusive civil socio-ecological culture as a novel form of protest. The case of the Water Pedagogical Forest

14. Chinese media coverage of Hong Kong’s anti-government protests in the context of Chinese nationalism