Protest Beyond Borders: Contentious Politics in Europe Since 1945

The protest movements that followed the Second World War have recently become the object of study for various disciplines; however, the exchange of ideas between research fields, and comparative research in general, is lacking. An international and interdisciplinary dialogue is vital to not only describe the similarities and differences between the single national movements but also to evaluate how they contributed to the formation and evolution of a transnational civil society in Europe. This volume undertakes this challenge as well as questions some major assumptions of post-1945 protest and social mobilization both in Western and Eastern Europe. Historians, political scientists, sociologists and media studies scholars come together and offer insights into social movement research beyond conventional repertoires of protest and strictly defined periods, borders and paradigms, offering new perspectives on past and present processes of social change of the contemporary world.

Hara Kouki is a PhD candidate in the Law Department at Birkbeck College, London, focusing on genealogical history of human rights in the postwar world. She has a master of arts in Film and History from the University of Kent and a master of research in History and Civilization from the European University Institute, Florence.

Eduardo Romanos is a Juan de la Cierva Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the Public University of Navarre, Spain. He received his PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence, and has been Fellow at research centers in Amsterdam, Groningen and Trento.