Contents

Introduction

Part I: Mediatization and Media Spectacle

1 The Construction of Contested Public Spheres

2 SlutWalk Hong Kong and the Media

3 Lights, Camera, Direct Action

4 Paving the Way for Anti-Militarism in Romania

Part II: Identity, Embodiment and Categorization

5 Academic-Activism(s) in Urban Resistances

6 As Barriers Fall, Contingency Becomes Possibility

7 “It’s a Beautiful Thing, the Destruction of Wor(l)ds”

8 The Logic of Movement Practice

Part III: Events as Dissent

9 Sounds of Dissent

10 Rave Culture

11 Events of Emancipation and Spectacles of Discontent

12 Emotional Construction of Identities in Protest Spaces

Conclusion

Index

Notes on Contributors