[ecrea] New book | 'The Circulation of Anti-Austerity Protest' by Bart Cammaerts

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*NEW BOOK*

"The Circulation of Anti-Austerity Protest" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
A new book authored by Bart Cammaerts (Department of Media and 
Communications, LSE)

In this book, Cammaerts presents a set of theoretical and methodological 
resources to study the way in which protest, resistance and social 
movement discourses circulate through society and looks at the role of 
media and of communication in this process. Empirically, the focus of 
this book is on the UK's anti-austerity movement. 'The Circuit of 
Protest', as developed in this volume, is comprised of an analysis of 
the discourses of the anti-austerity movement and their corresponding 
movement frames, and the self-mediation practices geared at 
communicating these.
The mainstream media representations and the reception of the movement 
discourses and frames by non-activist citizens are also studied. It is 
concluded that studying a movement through the prism of mediation 
provides a nuanced assessment in terms of failures and successes of the 
UK's anti-austerity movement. The book is of relevance to students and 
researchers of politics, social movements, as well as media and 
communication, but also to activists.

Endorsement: "This is a very important and valuable book that that 
places mediation and communication processes at the heart of the social, 
cultural and political phenomena associated to protest, collective 
action and social change. By proposing the 'Circuit of Protest' as an 
analytical framework for the study of social movements, Cammaerts 
provides an essential foundation for the study of protest and 
contentious politics in a range of world sites.  The Circulation of 
Anti-Austerity Protest ought to be essential reading for scholars 
researching struggles, social movements and mobilisations across media 
and communication studies and social movement studies." (Maria Rovisco, 
University of Leicester, UK)

Order here: https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783319701226
More on Bart Cammaerts here: 
http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/academic-staff/bart-cammaerts 

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