This article identifies and examines the features of protest events in Ireland in the aftermath of the EU-IMF bailout in order to understand why the patterns of protest in Ireland have not mirrored those in the other EU countries that received bail outs. To identify characteristics of Irish protest I used contemporary newspaper articles to compile a database recording objective features of prot...

Responding to the impending invasion of Iraq by the United States and its allies, peace activists from around the world united in opposition to any unilateral attack. The anti-war movement peaked during February 14-16, 2003, in the form of mass protest demonstrations staged in over 600 towns and cities across the globe. Estimates suggest the combined attendance of individuals participating in s...

Abstract At times of global unrest and the emergence a wide range protest movements, recent intra-disciplinary criminological debates on potentials limits resistance suggest paradoxical trend. Critical criminologists—in particular, those associated with ultra-realist perspective—have become increasingly skeptical idea “resistance,” itself. In context these discussions, scholars have resorted to...

People around the globe are affected by disasters far beyond disaster properties. Given that certain social groups disproportionately, need to be considered as political events which may cause actions. Therefore, we aim discuss, from a psychological perspective, how and why protests might occur during or after disaster. We argue for an elaborated model of collective action participation suggest...