Protest beyond borders [[electronic resource] ] : contentious politics in Europe since 1945 / / edited by Hara Kouki and Eduardo Romanos

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456468803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2011
• ISBN: 1-78238-118-X; 1-84545-995-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Collana: Protest, culture and society ; ; v. 5
• Altri autori (Persone): KoukiHara; RomanosEduardo
• Disciplina: 940.55
• Soggetti: Protest movements - Europe - History; Social movements - Europe - History; Social integration - Europe - History; Transnationalism - Political aspects - Europe - History; Transnationalism - Social aspects - Europe - History; Electronic books.; Europe Politics and government 1945-
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Transnational approaches to social mobilization in Europe since 1945 : an introduction / Hara Kouki and Eduardo Romanos -- Extraparliamentary entanglements : framing peace in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1974 / Andrew Oppenheimer -- The Prague Spring and the 'Gypsy question' : a transnational challenge to the socialist state / Celia Donert -- Human rights as a transnational vocabulary of protest : campaigning against the political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union / Hara Kouki -- Stairway to heaven or highway to hell? : ambivalent Europeanization and civil society in Central and Eastern Europe / Aron Buzogány -- Communicating dissent : diversity of expression in the protest against the G8 summit in Heiligendamm / Simon Teune -- Digitalized anti-corporate campaigns : towards a new era of transnational protest? / Johanna Niesyto -- Processes of dynamic social movement development : from 'British rights for British citizens' to 'British out' : the Northern Ireland civil ; rights movement, 1960s-1972 / Lorenzo Bosi -- Anarchism, Franco's dictatorship and postwar Europe : high-risk mobilization and ideological change / Eduardo Romanos -- Organizational communication of intermediaries in flux : an analytical framework / Dominik Lachenmeier -- The role of dissident-intellectuals in the formation of civil society in (post)communist East-Central Europe / Mariya Ivancheva -- Globalization and the transformation of national protest politics : an appetizer / Swen Hutter -- Social movement studies and transnationalization : an uneasy relation or a happy start? : an afterword / Donatella Della Porta.
• Sommario/riassunto: The protest movements that followed the Second World War have recently become the object of study for various disciplines; however, the exchange of ideas between research fields, and comparative research in general, is lacking. An international and interdisciplinary dialogue is vital to not only describe the similarities and differences between the single national movements but also to evaluate how they contributed to the formation and evolution of a transnational civil society in Europe. This volume undertakes this challenge as well as questions some major assumptions of post-1945 protest