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All Quiet on the Protest Scene? Repertoires of Contention and Protest Actors During the Great Recession
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Abstract The choice of specific action repertoires allows protesters to increase their visibility and eventually their success. A rise in protest, i.e. a protest wave, often comes with a qualitative expansion of the conflict, which can take two forms: changes in the action repertoire and a growing diversity ... view more
The choice of specific action repertoires allows protesters to increase their visibility and eventually their success. A rise in protest, i.e. a protest wave, often comes with a qualitative expansion of the conflict, which can take two forms: changes in the action repertoire and a growing diversity of involved actors. In this chapter, we examine the types of protest and the types of actors over time. In so doing, we ask whether and how the Great Recession transformed customary action repertoires in southern, north-western, and eastern Europe. Hence, we show variations in the use of commonplace action forms, i.e. demonstrations, strikes, and confrontational and violent actions. We find that demonstrations and strikes remain the dominant form of protest across regions and time periods, while transformations in the action repertoire of contention, in the form of violent events, took place only in some parts of the south and were short lived. Lastly, we turn to actors and we show that protest events increasingly feature social groups without formal organizational structures. We conclude by arguing that contention repertoires remained largely unaffected by the Great Recession; demonstrations were and remained the prevailing form of protest in all three regions during the whole period under study.... view less
Keywords
recession; economic crisis; protest; demonstration; strike; social actor; Europe
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
action repertoire; forms of contention; protest actors; protest forms
Collection Title
Contention in Times of Crisis: Recession and Political Protest in Thirty European Countries
Editor
Kriesi, Hanspeter; Lorenzini, Jasmine; Wüest, Bruno; Hausermann, Silja
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
City
Cambridge
Page/Pages
p. 104-127
Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/240933
ISBN
978-1-108-89166-0
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications