Seraphim Seferiades - Violent Protest, Contentious Politics, and the Neoliberal State

VIOLENT PROTEST, CONTENTIOUS POLITICS, AND THE NEOLIBERAL STATE

Series Editor

Professor hank Johnston
San Diego State University, USA

Published in conjunction with Mobilization: An International Quarterly, the premier research journal in the field, this series disseminates high quality new research and scholarship in the fields of social movements, protest, and contentious politics. The series is interdisciplinary in focus and publishes monographs and collections of essays by new and established scholars.

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Violent Protest, Contentious Politics, and the Neoliberal State

Edited by

SERAPHIM SEFERIADES

Panteion University, Greece

HANK JOHNSTON

San Diego State University, USA

First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing

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Violent protest, contentious politics, and the neoliberal
state. -- (Mobilization series on social movements,
protest, and culture)

1. Protest movements. 2. Protest movements--Cross-cultural
studies. 3. Riots. 4. Riots--Cross-cultural studies. 5. Neoliberalism--Social aspects.

I. Series II. Seferiades, Seraphim. III. Johnston, Hank,

1947
303.6'2-dc22

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Violent protest, contentious politics, and the neoliberal state / [edited] by Seraphim seferiades and hank Johnston.

p. cm. -- (The mobilization series on social movements, protest, and culture)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-1876-4 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-4094-1877-1
(ebook) 1. Violence. 2. Political violence. 3. Social movements--Political aspects. 4.
Collective behavior. 5. Social change. 6. Neoliberalism. I. Seferiades, Seraphim. II. Johnston, Hank, 1947

HM886.V5695 2011

303.6--dc23

2011026966

ISBN 978-1-409-41876-4 (hbk)
ISBN 978-1-315-54810-4 (ebk)

Seraphim Seferiades and Hank Johnston

Frances Fox Piven

Lorenzo Bosi and Marco Giugni

Hank Johnston

Dieter Rucht

Mario Diani

Donatella della Porta and Bernard Gbikpi

Jack A. Goldstone

David Waddington and Mike King

Marilena Simiti

Hank Johnston and Seraphim Seferiades

Loukia Kotronaki and Seraphim Seferiades

Kostas Kanellopoulos

Nikos Lountos

Dedicated to the memory of H. Edwin Johnston

Lorenzo Bosi is currently a Marie Curie Fellow at the European University Institute, working on a research project on the development and demise of political violence. His main research interests have been in political sociology and historical sociology where his studies have focused on social movement development, outcomes and political violence. He has published in several refereed journals: Mobilization: An International Quarterly; Ricerche di Storia Politica; Research in Social Movement, Conflict and Change; Historical Sociology; and The Sixties. He is working on a book about the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement.

Donatella della Porta is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute. She has directed the Demos project, devoted to the analysis of conceptions and practices of democracy in social movements in six European countries. She is now starting a major ERC project, Mobilizing for Democracy, on civil society participation in democratization processes in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. Among her recent publications are: Mobilizing on the Right (with M. Caiani and C. Wageman, Oxford University Press, 2012); Lintervista qualitativa (Laterza, 2011); Social Movements and Europeanization (with M. Caiani, Oxford University Press, 2009); (ed.) Another Europe (Routledge, 2009); (ed.) Democracy in Social Movements (Palgrave, 2009); Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences (with Michael Keating, Cambridge University Press, 2008); Voices from the Valley; Voices from the Street (with Gianni Piazza, Berghan, 2008); The Global Justice Movement (Paradigm, 2007); Globalization from Below (with Massimiliano Andretta, Lorenzo Mosca and Herbert Reiter, University of Minnesota Press, 2006); The Policing Transnational Protest (with Abby Peterson and Herbert Reiter, Ashgate, 2006); Social Movements: An Introduction, 2nd edition (with Mario Diani, Blackwell, 2006); and Transnational Protest and Global Activism (with Sidney Tarrow, Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).

Mario Diani is ICREA Research Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. Before that, he was Professor of Sociology in the Universities of Strathclyde in Glasgow (19962001) and Trento (20012010). He has worked extensively on social movements and on social network approaches to collective action. His publications include Social Movements (with Donatella della Porta, Blackwell, 1999 and 2006); Social Movements and Networks (co-edited with Doug McAdam, Oxford UP, 2003); and articles in leading journals such as American Sociological Review; American Journal of Sociology; Social Networks; Theory and Society; and Mobilization. Current research interests include civil society networks in UK cities, on which he is just completing a book, as well as individual participation in associations and grassroots groups, and networks of migrant organizations. From 1997 to 2005 he was the European editor of Mobilization.

Bernard Gbikpi is a lecturer in Political Science at Gonzaga University in Florence (Italy) and in Spokane (WA). He earned his PhD in Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute in Florence in 1996 and holds a D.E.A. from the University of Paris X-Nanterre. He has participated in various research projects at the EUI. Among his publications are Contribution une thorie de la lgitimation politique des ordres politiques et sociaux modernes (