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Protests as Events: Politics, Activism and Leisure is an edited collection that explores activism as a leisure activity and protests as events.

This is an open access book. The start of the 21st century has seen the world shaken by protests, from the Arab Spring to the Yellow Vests, from the Occupy move

This insightful volume critically explores activist events in their scale and their capacity to attract media attention through a critical event studies lens, o

Explains the character of contemporary protest politics through a micro-mobilization analysis of participation in street demonstrations.

This book examines the waves of protest that broke out in the 2010s as the collective actions of self-organized publics. Drawing on theories of publics/counter-