Ebook: Non-western social movements and participatory democracy: protest in the age of transnationalism

Introduction: non-western social movements and participatory democracy in the age of transnationalism / Ekim Arbatli -- The "colorless" protests in Russia: mixed messages and an uncertain future / Dina Rosenberg -- Palestinian youth movements and "the Arab Spring" / Ibrahim Natil -- Brazilian protests: actors and demands for political changes / Dmitry Zaytsev -- The multitudes of the invisibles and the revitalization of the Indian democratic space / Sanjay K. Rajhans -- Queering Gezi and Maidan: instrumentalization and negotiation of sexuality within the protest movement / Maryna Shevtsova -- From the social forums period to the June resistance: tension between mass mobilization and political strategy in Turkey / Mutlucan Şahan -- Citizen plenums in Bosnia protests: creating a post-ethnic identity / Nina Belyaeva -- The rise and demise of the Iranian Green Revolution: collective action framing in social media / David Drissel -- Egyptian women in the Arab Spring: emotions, political participation, and the internet / Alisa R. Shishkina -- Cyberspace attacks and social media momentum: building blocks from Syria to Ukraine / Ina Wanca -- Conclusion: the changing face of social movements and emerging patterns across the non-western world / Dina Rosenberg and Ekim Arbatli.;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 assess how, in the age of transnationalism, the idea of participatory democracy produces new collective-action frames and mass-mobilization strategies. The book challenges the view that most social movements unequivocally seek to achieve higher levels of democratization. Instead, the authors argue that protesters across different movements advocate more involved forms of citizen participation, since passive representation through liberal democratic institutions fails to address mass grievances and demands for accountability in many countries.