Similarities in protest tactics across countries can mask crucially different local conditions
Evidence
Mass demonstrations in certain places had inspired uprisings elsewhere, both emotionally and in the tactics that were adopted. But local context differed wildly. By taking a truly global approach, we can begin to see which factors were common across many different locations, and which were crucially different. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 46
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Spanish 2011 protesters organized horizontally with consensus-based assemblies — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 261; Global media templates shape how local protests are interpreted and copied — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 272; Protest tactics and manuals diffused between Latin American movements across borders — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 279 (+11 more)
Broader Connections
- Global protest movements of 2011 coordinated through shared tactics against the 1 percent
#qualifies(0.86) - Protesters across continents shared identical experiential language despite different causes
#qualifies(0.85) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 350 - Globalized protest follows the same two-century-old demonstration routines
#qualifies(0.83) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1269 - Transnational protest movements traded strategies and replaced pity with solidarity
#qualifies(0.80) - Tactics and organizers traveled between South American protest movements
#qualifies(0.80) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 279 - Color-coded protest identities spread across postsocialist regimes as WUNC displays.
#qualifies(0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1259 - Foreign antibase protesters distinguish opposition to bases from anti-Americanism
#exemplifies(0.75) — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 948 - Regime type shapes who confronts protesters and how claims get made
#exemplifies(0.72) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 380