THE DYNAMICS OF PROTEST CYCLES. THE CASE OF ROMANIA / LES DYNAMIQUES DES CYCLES DE PROTESTATIONS. LE CAS DE LA ROUMANIE

Authors

  • Raluca ABĂSEACĂ PhD Candidate (joint degree), Faculty of European Studies, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Free University of Brussels, Belgium. Email: Raluca.Abaseaca@ulb.ac.be.

Keywords:

protestations, altermondialisme, crise économique, diffusion, transnational

Abstract

This article analyzes the impact of socio-economic changes on the dynamic of political participation, by taking into account the continuities and the breaks between the anti-globalization movements and the movements of the economic crisis. From a broader perspective, our main puropse is to focus on the processes of diffusion, global framing, internalization of global movements in the case of political participation in post-communist Romania.

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2015-12-30

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ABĂSEACĂ, R. . (2015). THE DYNAMICS OF PROTEST CYCLES. THE CASE OF ROMANIA / LES DYNAMIQUES DES CYCLES DE PROTESTATIONS. LE CAS DE LA ROUMANIE. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Europaea, 60(4), 135–158. Retrieved from http://193.231.18.162/index.php/subbeuropaea/article/view/4857

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