Waves of Social Movement Mobilizations in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges to the Neo-Liberal World Order and Democracy. Este artículo no está disponible.Waves of Social Movement Mobilizations in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges to the Neo-Liberal World Order and Democracy

Based on case studies, this book analyzes a recent wave of social movement and protests in the twenty-first century. It has two overarching broadly defined themes: first, to identify commonalities across the social movements and protests in terms of strategies, desire, hopes as well as the main factors in the decline of the movements. And second, to underline the significance of the general economic, social, and political conditions in which these protests arose. Although there are specific national and local context-specific reasons for the protests observed in different countries, the gradual integration of the post-war neo-liberal hegemonic world order is the fundamental overarching structural factor behind these protests. From Turkey to Spain, Greece to Mexico, and the Netherlands to the U.S., this book observes that the “outsiders” of the system resist against the oppression of the neo-liberal world system.

Nahide Konak is associate professor of sociology atAbant Izzet Baysal University.

Rasim Özgür Dönmez is associate professor of international relations at Abant Izzet Baysal University in Turkey.

Ernesto Castañeda is assistant professor of sociology at American University where he is affiliated with the Metropolitan Policy Center, the Center of Latin American and Latino Studies, and the Center on Health Risk and Society.

Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda is associate professor in the Department of Humanities at the University of Ciudad Juárez.

Gökçe Bayindir Goularas is Professor and Chair of the French Department of Political Science and International Relations at Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Turkey.