After the multidimensional financial crisis of 2008, the member states of the Eurozone
imposed a set of economic policies to save their economies. Socially unpopular cuts …

The Russian government has dramatically expanded its restrictions on the internet since the
social media-powered protest movement of 2011–2013, 1 while consolidating its grip on …

Social movements are increasingly recognised as significant features of contemporary world
politics, yet to date their treatment in international relations theory has tended to obfuscate …

This chapter focuses on four key social movement theories that are useful for understanding
the emergence and development of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are resource …

The aim of this article is to provide a discussion of scholarly 'crisis of modernity'discourses
that have developed in the field of social philosophy. Re-visiting past and present …

Protest movements that reject political parties are often considered marginal or ineffective
due to their hostility toward conventional politics. However, we argue that partisan actors can …

Heggert and Flowers (2019) offer important insights into how social media provides students
with important opportunities to engage in meaningful civic engagement and political …

This study investigates the exclusion of rural communities from the postcolonial South
African nation state as a result of the neoliberal agenda of the democratic government. This …

The atmosphere of political confrontation in Catalonia has recently had a considerable
impact in WhatsApp groups analyzed within the framework of the IMPACT-EV (Evaluating …

What role do social protests play in democratic change? Why do similar types of protest
movements produce different kinds of outcomes? How are protest movements realigning …