Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of interviews -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Democracy in Danger: What's Wrong With Austerity and Free Trade Agreements? -- Comparing the Diffusion of Protest Against Austerity and Against Free Trade Agreements -- Complex Media and Political Arenas -- Chapter Description -- 1 Studying Protest Diffusion -- 1.1. Hard to Be a God: Diffusion in Protest Cycles -- 1.2. Diffusion Studies: From Hard Tomatoes to Sit-Ins and Occupations -- 1.3. Players and Arenas in Protest Diffusion
1.4. Key Players -- 1.5. Conclusions -- 2 Quiet, You Might Wake Up the Greeks: The Diffusion of Protests Against Austerity -- 2.1. Lo Spread -- 2.2. A Brief History of the Economic Crisis and Austerity Measures in the EU -- 2.3. The Diffusion of Anti-Austerity Protests in Southern Europe: The Main Players and Their Media Practices -- 2.4. The Curious Absence of Anti-Austerity Protests in Eastern Europe -- 2.5. Conclusions: Go East! Go West! Forge New Connections -- 3 ACTA La Vista Baby: The Diffusion of Protest Against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
3.1. What ACTA Is and Why It Is Important to Study the Diffusion of Protest Against It -- 3.2. The Politicization of IP -- 3.3. The Diffusion of Protests Against ACTA: The Main Players and Their Media Practices -- 3.4. This Protest Is Not Available in Your Country: Why Spain Did Not Protest Against ACTA -- 3.5. Takeaways for Activists: How to Follow Up on Issues and Avoid Depoliticization -- 4 TTIP-ing Over Democracy: The Diffusion of Protests Against TTIP and CETA -- 4.1. TTIP and CETA: "A Symbolic and Practical Assertion of Western Renewal"?
4.2. "Protectionists and Scaremongers Are Winning in Germany": The Spread of Anti-TTIP Protests -- 4.3. The Diffusion of Opposition to TTIP and CETA From the Green Left to the Far Right -- 4.4. The Failed Diffusion of Protests Against TTIP and CETA in Eastern Europe -- 4.5. Conclusions: Avoid Appropriation by the Far Right! -- Conclusions -- Index
