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Global Cultures of Contestation

Mobility, Sustainability, Aesthetics & Connectivity

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Editors:
  1. Esther Peeren

    1. Department of Literary and Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Switzerland

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  2. Robin Celikates

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  3. Jeroen de Kloet

    1. Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  4. Thomas Poell

    1. Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  • Aimed at scholars and graduate students working on topics related to globalization, politics and social movements from across the humanities and the social sciences
  • Brings together contributors from Egypt, Iran, Australia, France, Spain, Greece, Hong Kong and across the globe
  • Approaches each protest movement in terms of both their specificity and their tendency, in a context of digitization and globalization, to connect, share and influence each other

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction: Global Cultures of Contestation

    • Esther Peeren, Robin Celikates, Jeroen de Kloet, Thomas Poell
    Pages 1-26

  3. The Square and Beyond: Trajectories and Implications of the Square Occupations

    • Marlies Glasius, Armine Ishkanian
    Pages 27-48

  4. Weak Resistance in Semi-Peripheries: The Emergence of Non-Heroic Counterpublics

    • Ewa Majewska
    Pages 49-68

  5. Challenging the Nation-State’s Territorial Integrity through Contestation: Secessionist Rallies in Catalonia

    • Jaume Castan Pinos
    Pages 69-92

  6. A Radical Reframing of Civil Disobedience: “Illegal” Migration and Whistleblowing

    • Natasha Basu, Bernardo Caycedo
    Pages 93-111

  7. Biopolitical and Phenomenological Underpinnings of Embodied Contestation: Further Reflections on Creative Insurgency

    • Marwan M. Kraidy
    Pages 113-127

  8. Whose Space Is It Anyway? Practices of Protest and Strategies of Authority in Egypt

    • Walid El Houri
    Pages 129-150

  9. Umbrellas and Revolutions: The Aesthetics of the Hong Kong Protests

    • Jeroen de Kloet
    Pages 151-170

  10. The Internet as a Global/Local Site of Contestation: The Case of Iran

    • Mahsa Alimardani, Stefania Milan
    Pages 171-192

  11. Tactical Connecting and (Im-)Mobilizing in the French Boycott School Day Campaign and Anti-Gender Theory Movement

    • Jayson Harsin
    Pages 193-214

  12. Disruption or Transformation? Australian Policymaking in the Face of Indigenous Contestation

    • Tanja Dreher, Lisa Waller, Kerry McCallum
    Pages 215-240

  13. Erehwon: A Digital Platform for Empowering Sociopolitical Interventions in Public Space

    • Beatriz Cantinho, Mariza Dima
    Pages 241-262

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 263-282
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About this book

This book guides the reader through the many complications and contradictions that characterize popular contestation today, focusing on its socio-political, cultural, and aesthetic dimensions. The volume recognizes that the same media and creative strategies can be used to pursue very different causes, as the anti-gay marriage Manif Pour Tous movement in France makes clear. The contributors are scholars from the humanities and social sciences, who analyze protests in particular regions, including Egypt, Iran, Australia, France, Spain, Greece, and Hong Kong, and transnational protests such as the NSA-leaks and the mobilization of migrants and refugees. Not only the specificity of these protest movements is examined, but also their tendency to connect and influence each other, as well as the central, often ambiguous role global digital platforms play in this. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Literary and Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Switzerland

    Esther Peeren

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Robin Celikates

  • Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Jeroen de Kloet, Thomas Poell

About the editors

Esther Peeren is Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Analysis and Vice-Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS) at the University of Amsterdam.


Robin Celikates is Associate Professor of Political and Social Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, where he also directs the NWO-funded research project Transformations of Civil Disobedience.


Jeroen de Kloet is Professor of Globalisation Studies and Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS) at the University of Amsterdam.


Thomas Poell is Assistant Professor of New Media & Digital Culture and Program Director of the Research Master Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam.



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