Worldwide Mobilizations

Don Kalb is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. He is also a Senior Researcher at Utrecht University and a Visiting Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale. He is the Founding Editor of Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology and of Focaalblog.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Introductory Thoughts on Anthropology and Urban InsurrectionDon Kalb and Massimiliano MollonaChapter 1. Confronting ‘Aggressive Urbanism’: Frictional Heterogeneity in the ‘Gezi Protests’ of TurkeyMehmet Barış KuymuluChapter 2. Reconfiguring 'the People'? Notes on the 2014 Winter Revolt in Bosnia and HerzegovinaStef JansenChapter 3. ‘Sofia 2014, Feels Like 1989’: Abstention from the Protests and Declining Market Teleology in BulgariaDimitra KoftiChapter 4. Spontaneity, Antagonism and the Moral Politics of Outrage: Urban Protest in Argentina since 2001Sian LazarChapter 5. ‘Neither Left nor Right’: Crisis, Wane of Politics, and Struggles for SovereigntyGiacomo LoperfidoChapter 6. Rebels and Revolutionaries: Urban Mobilizations of the Kamaiya Movement in Post-Conflict Western NepalMichael Peter HoffmannChapter 7. The Brazilian ‘June’ Revolution: Urban Struggles, Composite Articulations and New Class AnalysisMassimiliano MollonaChapter 8. Contradictions of the ‘Common Man’: A Realist Approach to India's Aam Aadmi PartyLuisa SteurChapter 9. Re-envisioning Social Movements in the Global City: from Fordism to the Neoliberal EraIda SusserAfterword: Notes for a Contemporary Urban Class AnalysisMassimiliano Mollona and Don KalbIndex

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