Protest, Popular Culture and Tradition in Modern and Contemporary Western Europe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Mock funerals, effigy parading, smearing with eggs and tomatoes, pot-banging and Carnival street theatre, arson and ransacking: all these seemingly archaic forms of action have been regular features of modern European protest, from the 19th to the 21st century.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-04-18
Mått148 x 210 x 24 mm
Vikt518 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements
Antal sidor273
Upplaga17001
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781137507365

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Ilaria Favretto is Professor of Contemporary European History at Kingston University, UK. She has published on the British and the Italian Left after 1945; on memory and identity in post-war Italy; and most recently, on Italian factory protest in the period after 1945.Xabier Itçaina is CNRS Research fellow-HDR in Political Sociology at the Centre Emile Durkheim, France, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France, and a former Marie Curie Fellow (2012-2013) at the European University Institute, Italy. His research focuses on the politics of Catholicism, social economy and local development, political anthropology and identity politics.

Preface.- 1. Introduction: Looking Backward to Move Forward. Why appreciating tradition can improve our understanding of modern protest. Ilaria Favretto and Xabier Itcaina.- 2. “The Modernity of Tradition”: Popular protest in 19th c. Germany. James Brophy.- 3. Charivari and the 1876 Italian elections. Enrico Baroncini.- 4. Peasant Resistance Traditions and the Irish War of Independence, 1918 21. John Borgonovo.- 5. A Fight for the Right to get Drunk: The Autumn Fair Riot in Eskilstuna, 1937. Stefan Nyzell.- 6. Italian anarchism and popular culture: History of a close relationship. Marco Manfredi.- 7. Persistent repertoires of contention in Portugal: From tax riots to anti communist violence (1840 1975). Diego Palacios Cerezales.- 8. Carnivalesque and charivari repertoires in 1960s and 1970s Italian Protest. Ilaria Favretto and Marco Fincardi.- 9. Popular Justice and Informal Politics: The Charivari in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century France. Xabier Itçaina.- 10. Tactical Carnival and the Global Justice Movement: The Clown Army and Clownfrontational Protest. Lawrence Bogad.- 11. Conclusion. Popular culture, folk traditions and protest: a research agenda. Xabier Itçaina.- 12. Afterword. Old and new repertories of contention. Donatella della Porta.