Street Citizens

Marco Giugni is a Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations and Director of the Institute of Cititzenship Studies (InCite) at the University of Geneva. His research interests include social movements and collective action, immigration and ethnic relations, unemployment and social exclusion. He is European editor of Mobilization: An International Quarterly. Maria T. Grasso is Professor at the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield. She is the author of Generations, Political Participation and Social Change in Western Europe (2016) and co-editor of Austerity and Protest: Popular Contention in Times of Economic Crisis (2015). Her research focuses on political sociology and political engagement. She is European editor of Mobilization: An International Quarterly.

• 1. Protest politics and social movement activism in the age of globalization; 2. Contentious Europeans?; 3. Bringing capitalism back in?; 4. Protest and institutional politics; 5. Were they pushed or did they jump?; 6. Cognition and affect among demonstrators; 7. Why do people want to demonstrate?; 8. Protest politics and social movement activism in perspective.

'Using a rich database, which covers protesters marching on different issues, in several years, in various countries, Marco Giugni and Maria T. Grasso illuminate the paths of (contentious) participation by Europeans, the social bases for the protest, the interaction between protest and institutional politics, the micro-dynamics of mobilization, the emotional dimension of protests and demonstrators' motivations.' Donatella della Porta, Director of the Center on Social Movement Studies (Cosmos) and Dean of the Institute for Humanities, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa