Short description:

This topical book explores the phenomenon of when and why people protest. Based in social and political psychology, the book takes a comparative approach across cultures and examines how human motivation and political and cultural contexts affects protests. 

Long description:

This topical book explores the phenomenon of when and why people protest. Based in social and political psychology, the book takes a comparative approach across and within cultures and examines how human motivation and political and cultural contexts affect protests.

Showcasing state-of-the-art chapters from a new generation of social protest researchers, the book offers an overview of research into contemporary social change over the last decade. It draws on interdisciplinary research from social and political psychology across and within cultures to increase the scope of the phenomenon of social protest. The chapters feature different international examples and discuss diverse manifestations of social protest. Each chapter explicitly connects key insights to the practice and real-life relevance of social protest.

The book offers a unique perspective of the when and why of social protest, and will be essential reading for students and academics in the fields of social psychology, political psychology, politics and sociology, as well as anyone in behavioural and social sciences interested in social movements, social protest, and social change.

Table of Contents:

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1:
An Introduction to This Volume: Motivations for Social Protest and the Contexts in Which They Are Embedded

Martijn van Zomeren

Section I: Motivations across Contexts

Chapter 2:
Engaging in the Struggle for Justice: Morality as an Essential Driving Force of Social Protest.

Marcos Dono, Mónica Alzate and José Manuel Sabucedo

Chapter 3:
Malleability and Change Motivation Beliefs in Social Protest (versus Conflict Resolution)

Smadar Cohen-Chen

Chapter 4:
Examining Nostalgia?s Potential to Increase Solidarity-Based Protest against Ageism:
The Case of ?Age Demands Action?

Inga Pauls*, Karolina Urbanska*, Martijn van Zomeren*, Keragan Cavolo, Medhi Marot, Tim Wildschut and Constantine Sedikides

Chapter 5:
Environmental Collective Action in Germany and Beyond: An Opportunity to Extend Theory and Practice
Karen Hamann, Sophia Dasch, and Anna-Sophie von Agris

Chapter 6:
A Unique Motivational Profile for Activists? Towards a More Comprehensive Social Identity Model of Collective Action

Ruthie Pliskin, Frederik Wermser, Eran Halperin and Martijn van Zomeren

Section 2: Motivations within Contexts

Chapter 7:
Toward System Change, But in Opposite Directions: The Reactionary-Progressive Tension in Italy

Valeria De Cristofaro & Valerio Pellegrini

Chapter 8:
Opre, Roma!: Discrimination, Misrecognition and Indifference as Challenges for Roma Activism and Allyship

Barbara Lášticová, Judit Ignácz, and Anna Kende

Chapter 9:
The Power in Numbers (PIN) Hypothesis: How Common Ingroup Identities Motivate Collective Action Among Groups that Face Violent Existential Threats

Huseyin Cakal, Faris Nadhmi, Abha Chauhan, Zafer Özkan, John Dixon and Martijn van Zomeren

Chapter 10:
Why They (Do Not) Protest: A Critical Social Psychological Perspective on Collective Action in Palestine 

Siwar Hasan-Aslih & Sandra Penić

Chapter 11:
Social Protest in Chile: Moralization of Attitudes Through Politicization of Social Movement Identity

Ana Leal, Belén Álvarez, and Roberto González

Conclusion

Chapter 12:
Toward an Integrative Social and Political Psychology of Social Protest Within and Across Cultures

Martijn van Zomeren