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.

This book provides a very sophisticated and thoroughly insightful analysis of social mobilization at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is an innovative and remarkably perceptive study of the significance and varieties of contemporary social mobilizations and their consequences.

• Chapter 1: Seeking (and Finding) Democracy, Mark PurcellChapter 2: The Indignados and the Global Diffusion of Forms of Protest Against Authoritarianism and Structural Adjustment Programs, Ernesto CastañedaChapter 3: The Greek Social Movements and an Analysis of the Reaction in Greece to the Gezi Park Protests, Gökçe Bayindir Goularas Chapter 4: # Yo Soy 132: A Networked Social Movement of Mexican Youth, Luis Rubén Díaz CepedaChapter 5: Deconstructing Neo-Patrimonial System via Humor: Gezi Park “Çapulcu” Protests in Turkey, Nahide Konak and Rasim Özgür DönmezChapter 6: Squatting (in Turkey): A Practice of Transforming Public Spaces into Commons?, Helga Rittersberger-TiliçChapter 7: Occupying Power: Strategies for Change in Occupy London, Sam Halvorsen and Simon ThorpeChapter 8: Wildfire Movement’s Crashing on the Local Trenches: A Comparison of Occupy Los Angeles and Occupy Amsterdam, Walter Nicholls and Justus UitermarkChapter 9: Political Economy of European Mobilization: Why Did the Anti-Austerity Movements Fail, Beyza Ç. Tekin and Rifat Baris Tekin

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.

This book provides a very sophisticated and thoroughly insightful analysis of social mobilization at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is an innovative and remarkably perceptive study of the significance and varieties of contemporary social mobilizations and their consequences.

• Chapter 1: Seeking (and Finding) Democracy, Mark PurcellChapter 2: The Indignados and the Global Diffusion of Forms of Protest Against Authoritarianism and Structural Adjustment Programs, Ernesto CastañedaChapter 3: The Greek Social Movements and an Analysis of the Reaction in Greece to the Gezi Park Protests, Gökçe Bayindir Goularas Chapter 4: # Yo Soy 132: A Networked Social Movement of Mexican Youth, Luis Rubén Díaz CepedaChapter 5: Deconstructing Neo-Patrimonial System via Humor: Gezi Park “Çapulcu” Protests in Turkey, Nahide Konak and Rasim Özgür DönmezChapter 6: Squatting (in Turkey): A Practice of Transforming Public Spaces into Commons?, Helga Rittersberger-TiliçChapter 7: Occupying Power: Strategies for Change in Occupy London, Sam Halvorsen and Simon ThorpeChapter 8: Wildfire Movement’s Crashing on the Local Trenches: A Comparison of Occupy Los Angeles and Occupy Amsterdam, Walter Nicholls and Justus UitermarkChapter 9: Political Economy of European Mobilization: Why Did the Anti-Austerity Movements Fail, Beyza Ç. Tekin and Rifat Baris Tekin

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.

This book provides a very sophisticated and thoroughly insightful analysis of social mobilization at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is an innovative and remarkably perceptive study of the significance and varieties of contemporary social mobilizations and their consequences.

• Chapter 1: Seeking (and Finding) Democracy, Mark PurcellChapter 2: The Indignados and the Global Diffusion of Forms of Protest Against Authoritarianism and Structural Adjustment Programs, Ernesto CastañedaChapter 3: The Greek Social Movements and an Analysis of the Reaction in Greece to the Gezi Park Protests, Gökçe Bayindir Goularas Chapter 4: # Yo Soy 132: A Networked Social Movement of Mexican Youth, Luis Rubén Díaz CepedaChapter 5: Deconstructing Neo-Patrimonial System via Humor: Gezi Park “Çapulcu” Protests in Turkey, Nahide Konak and Rasim Özgür DönmezChapter 6: Squatting (in Turkey): A Practice of Transforming Public Spaces into Commons?, Helga Rittersberger-TiliçChapter 7: Occupying Power: Strategies for Change in Occupy London, Sam Halvorsen and Simon ThorpeChapter 8: Wildfire Movement’s Crashing on the Local Trenches: A Comparison of Occupy Los Angeles and Occupy Amsterdam, Walter Nicholls and Justus UitermarkChapter 9: Political Economy of European Mobilization: Why Did the Anti-Austerity Movements Fail, Beyza Ç. Tekin and Rifat Baris Tekin