Overview: Analyzes recent social movements and protests in the non-Western world.Investigates political demands and protesters’ mobilization strategies.Focuses on the concept of participatory democracy.Includes.This book analyzes social movements across a range of countries in the non-Western world: Bosnia, Brazil, Egypt, India, Iran, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Turkey and Ukraine in the period 2008 to 2016. The individual case studies investigate how political and social goals are framed nationally and globally, and the types of mobilization strategies used to pursue them. The studies also asse
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