Full Description
This book focuses on small-scale mobilisation and everyday social movements that take the form of grassroots resistance and solidarity initiatives. Through a series of case studies drawn from the UK, Europe, India, and Latin America, it examines the dynamics and role of micro-acts of resistance, with attention to a range of themes including organisational issues, the construction of collective identity, strategies, tactics and participation, and media representations and public perception of small-scale social movements. As such, it will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, media and communication and politics with interests in social movements, political mobilisation and activism.
Contents
Chapter 1: Small-scale solidarity initiatives and everyday forms of resistance: A slow-burning revolutionary process
Chapter 2: Non-hierarchical and care-based forms of organization in the new wave of societies in movement
Chapter 3: Reflections on grassroots healthcare provisioning in Greece in times of crisis: Breaking with capitalocentric fantasy by prefiguring futures of solidarity
Chapter 4: Collaborating for change in critical times? Alter-political cooperativism in Thessaloniki, Greece
Chapter 5: Everyday micro-resistances and horizons of radical solidarity, care and mutualism
Chapter 6: "It's not like it just happened that day": anti-racist solidarity in two Glasgow neighbourhoods
Chapter 7: The small metal music store as a site of everyday decolonial resistance in Latin America and the Caribbean
Chapter 8: Manifestation of protests in Instagram. Images as a potential site of resistance in the 2019 Delhi protests
Chapter 9: Communication Practices, New Media Technologies and Anarchist Movements: The Website of the Greek Anarchist Group Rouvikonas as a "one stop shop"
Chapter 11: Resisting (everyday) racism on social media: Analysing responses to the 2018 Mary Beard Twitterstorm
