Past studies have documented that different explanations exist to account for the rise and fall of popular protest in times of social change of a historical scale. Of those explanations, economic and political accounts are most dted arguments relating historical changes and the occurrence

that the Party would work intensely " on their behalf. His proposal passed unanimously (PSE 1926, 33). This congress in the capital city of Quito marked the first time in that country's history that an urban movement confronted rural issues in a significant and systematic manner. More impo rtant

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) these studies make arguments and present information which help us understand more about the range of diff~rences that can be foun.d amo~g social movements. Second " they often give us a sense of the action which carries their movement forward and ~ a sense i ~ ~e movement. They do not just point to a

This morning I would like to focus our attention on the lives of young Africans struggling with unemployment, the difficulty of finding sustainable livelihoods, and the absence of civil liberties. Political instability, bad governance, and failed neo-

The article argues that contemporary protest movements are facing a convergence of what has traditionally been coined as mainstream and alternative media. Traditionally, the broad term ‘alternative media ’ has been employed to embrace a wide range of oppositional media channels that can

In summer 2011, Israel was swept by unprecedented political protest as multiple encampments occupied streets and mass rallies were held weekly in Tel Aviv and other cities. The article focuses on the spatial politics of this protest, analysing the par-ticular strategies it used to activise urban

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This article tries to explore structural and immediate socioeconomic factors which gave rise to the Chinese workers ' participation in the protest movement of 1989. At the structural plane, the author argues that the workers ' involvement in the protest movement marked a turning point

, ” “A16 ” and “J18 ” are movements associated with the dates of large, disparate, and at times violent protests against globalization in Seattle, Washington and London. They were followed by similar events in Prague and Davos, Switzerland. While the protest movement, can be chaotic, less than articulate