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    Civic Activism and Grassroots Movements in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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  • Resisting the Backlash

    Street Protest in Italy

    Series series The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture
    Drawing interview material, together with extensive data from the authors’ original social movement database, this book examines the development of social movements in resistance to perceived political "regression" and a growing right-wing backlash. With a focus on Italy and the reaction to increasing inequalities and welfare state retrenchment policies, it examines opposition to the government ... Read more

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  • Contentious Politics in the Transnational Arena

    Political Contention in Europe and its Wider Neighbourhood

    Edited by Chiara Milan, Aron Buzogány ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This Open Access book investigates the transnational dimension of activism — exploring how and why non-state actors scale up contention from the local to the transnational arena, how they translate their grievances and claims into the transnational arena, and how they organize across borders. Moving beyond the analysis of individual campaigns, or a single-country or single-issue focus, which are ... Read more

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