Protest Beyond Borders

Hara Kouki is a historian and a PhD candidate in the Law Department at Birkbeck College, London. She has co-edited The Greek Crisis and European Modernity (Palgrave, 2013). Previous affiliated researcher with ELIAMEP (Athens, Greece), Hara currently holds a Research Assistant position at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Florence, Italy.

• List of FiguresPrefaceKathrin Fahlenbrach, Martin Klimke and Joachim ScharlothIntroduction: Transnational Approaches to Social Mobilization in Europe since 1945. An IntroductionHara Kouki and Eduardo RomanosPART I: TRANSNATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF PROTEST IN COLD WAR EUROPEChapter 1. Extraparliamentary Entanglements: Framing Peace in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-1974Andrew OppenheimerChapter 2. The Prague Spring and the ‘Gypsy Question’: A Transnational Challenge to the Socialist StateCelia DonertChapter 3. Human Rights as a Transnational Vocabulary of Protest: Campaigning against the Political Abuse of Psychiatry in the Soviet UnionHara KoukiPART II: CONTENTIOUS POLITICS IN A NEW ERA OF TRANSNATIONALISMChapter 4. Stairway to Heaven or Highway to Hell? Ambivalent Europeanization and Civil Society in Central and Eastern EuropeAron BuzogányChapter 5. Communicating Dissent. Diversity of Expression in the Protest against the G8 Summit in HeiligendammSimon TeuneChapter 6. Digitalized Anti-corporate Campaigns: Towards a New Era of Transnational Protest?Johanna NiesytoPART III: BROADENING THEORETICAL APPROACHESChapter 7. Processes of Dynamic Social Movement Development. From ‘British Rights for British Citizens’ to ‘British Out’: The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement, 1960s-1972Lorenzo BosiChapter 8. Anarchism, Franco’s Dictatorship and Postwar Europe: High-risk Mobilization and Ideological ChangeEduardo RomanosChapter 9. Organizational Communication of Intermediaries in Flux: An Analytical FrameworkDominik LachenmeierPART IV: OUTLOOK FOR RESEARCHChapter 10. The Role of Dissident-Intellectuals in the Formation of Civil Society in (Post)Communist East-Central EuropeMariya IvanchevaChapter 11. Globalization and the Transformation of National Protest Politics: An AppetizerSwen HutterAfterword: Social Movement Studies and Transnationalization: An Uneasy Relation or a Happy Start? An AfterwordDonatella Della PortaBibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex

“This is a wide ranging and informative study…The essays are well presented [and], intrinsically interesting.”  ·  Ruth Kinna, Loughborough University“The mixture of historical and contemporary accounts and perspectives constitutes an original and much needed approach to the study of social movements.”   ·  Peo Hansen, Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) at Linköping University, Sweden