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How do precarious workers employed in call-centres, universities,
the fashion industry and many other labour markets organise,
struggle and communicate to become recognised, influential
political subjects? "Media Practices and Protest Politics; How
Precarious Workers Mobilise" reveals the process by which
individuals at the margins of the labour market and excluded from
the welfare state communicate and struggle outside the realm of
institutional politics to gain recognition in the political sphere.
In this important and thought provoking work Alice Mattoni suggests
an all-encompassing approach to understanding grassroots political
communication in contemporary societies. Using original examples
from precarious workers mobilizations in Italy she explores a range
of activist media practices and compares different categories of
media technologies, organizations and outlets from the printed
press to web application and from mainstream to alternative media.
Explaining how activists perceive and understand the media
environment in which they are embedded the book discusses how they
must interact with a diverse range of media professionals and
technologies and considers how mainstream, radical left-wing and
alternative media represent protests. Media Practices and Protest
Politics offers important insights for understanding mechanisms and
patterns of visibility in struggles for recognition and
redistribution in post-democratic societies and provides a valuable
contribution to the field of political communication and social
movement studies.
How do precarious workers employed in call-centres, universities,
the fashion industry and many other labour markets organise,
struggle and communicate to become recognised, influential
political subjects? "Media Practices and Protest Politics; How
Precarious Workers Mobilise" reveals the process by which
individuals at the margins of the labour market and excluded from
the welfare state communicate and struggle outside the realm of
institutional politics to gain recognition in the political sphere.
In this important and thought provoking work Alice Mattoni suggests
an all-encompassing approach to understanding grassroots political
communication in contemporary societies. Using original examples
from precarious workers mobilizations in Italy she explores a range
of activist media practices and compares different categories of
media technologies, organizations and outlets from the printed
press to web application and from mainstream to alternative media.
Explaining how activists perceive and understand the media
environment in which they are embedded the book discusses how they
must interact with a diverse range of media professionals and
technologies and considers how mainstream, radical left-wing and
alternative media represent protests. Media Practices and Protest
Politics offers important insights for understanding mechanisms and
patterns of visibility in struggles for recognition and
redistribution in post-democratic societies and provides a valuable
contribution to the field of political communication and social
movement studies.
This book examines the "oil-tourism interface", the broad range of
direct and indirect contact points between offshore oil extraction
and nature-based tourism. Offshore oil extraction and nature-based
tourism are pursued as development paths across the North Atlantic
region. Offshore oil promises economic benefits from employment and
royalty payments to host societies, but is based on fossil
fuel-intensive resource extraction. Nature-based tourism, instead,
is based on experiencing natural environments and encountering
wildlife, including whales, seals, or seabirds. They share
social-ecological space, such as oceans, coastlines, cities and
towns where tourism and offshore oil operations and offices are
located. However, they rarely share cultural or political space, in
terms of media coverage, public debate, or policy discussion that
integrates both modes of development. Through a comparative
analysis of Denmark, Iceland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Norway,
and Scotland, this book offers important lessons for how coastal
societies can better navigate relationships between resource
extraction and nature-based tourism in the interests of
social-ecological wellbeing.
This book examines the "oil-tourism interface", the broad range of
direct and indirect contact points between offshore oil extraction
and nature-based tourism. Offshore oil extraction and nature-based
tourism are pursued as development paths across the North Atlantic
region. Offshore oil promises economic benefits from employment and
royalty payments to host societies, but is based on fossil
fuel-intensive resource extraction. Nature-based tourism, instead,
is based on experiencing natural environments and encountering
wildlife, including whales, seals, or seabirds. They share
social-ecological space, such as oceans, coastlines, cities and
towns where tourism and offshore oil operations and offices are
located. However, they rarely share cultural or political space, in
terms of media coverage, public debate, or policy discussion that
integrates both modes of development. Through a comparative
analysis of Denmark, Iceland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Norway,
and Scotland, this book offers important lessons for how coastal
societies can better navigate relationships between resource
extraction and nature-based tourism in the interests of
social-ecological wellbeing.
This special issue is a key text in the current study of social
movements. It introduces new analytical concepts for understanding
visuals in social movements and examines case studies from across
the globe; such as analysis of the symbols used in the Egyptian
uprising, and contested images from anti-surveillance protests in
Europe.
Which elements do the Arab Spring, the Indignados and Occupy Wall
Street have in common? How do they differ? What do they share with
social movements of the past? This book discusses the recent wave
of global mobilisations from an unusual angle, explaining what
aspects of protests spread from one country to another, how this
happened, and why diffusion occurred in certain contexts but not in
others. In doing this, the book casts light on the more general
mechanisms of protest diffusion in contemporary societies,
explaining how mobilisations travel from one country to another
and, also, from past to present times.Bridging different fields of
the social sciences, and covering a broad range of empirical cases,
this book develops new theoretical perspectives.
Which elements do the Arab Spring, the Indignados and Occupy Wall
Street have in common? How do they differ? What do they share with
social movements of the past? This book discusses the recent wave
of global mobilisations from an unusual angle, explaining what
aspects of protests spread from one country to another, how this
happened, and why diffusion occurred in certain contexts but not in
others. In doing this, the book casts light on the more general
mechanisms of protest diffusion in contemporary societies,
explaining how mobilisations travel from one country to another
and, also, from past to present times.Bridging different fields of
the social sciences, and covering a broad range of empirical cases,
this book develops new theoretical perspectives.
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