Mechanisms
The term for the spread of protests across borders.
What is diffusion?
Initially thought to be a Twitter revolution, this unsuccessful MENA set of protests was neither Twitter-based nor, arguably, a revolution.
What is Iran's Green Movement?
As opposed to ethnic nationalism, this form of nationalism is thought to be more unifying as it is based on political principles.
What is civic nationalism?
The Serbian civil society activist group that engaged in mobilization training with Georgian Rose Revolution protesters.
What is Otpor! (Resistance!)
The name of the park where a police crackdown on peaceful demonstrators ignited nation-wide protests in 2013.
What is Gezi Park?
Exemplified by the alliance of intellectuals and workers in the Solidarity movement, this term explains how movements grow through groups partnering.
What is coalition-building?
The term for the function social media serves in amplifying voice to the international level.
What is megaphone?
The three-letter acronym for the Basque separatist group whose repertoire of contention included bombings.
What is ETA?
The mis-named group of pro-Kurdish activists that gathers weekly on Istanbul's main shopping street to protest disappearances and extra-judicial killings.
Cumartesi Anneleri nedir? What are the Saturday Mothers?
In addition to police *violence*, this rhyming term for the behavior of the media also fueled protest.
What is silence?
The two-word term for the expansion of a protest from, say, the local to the national level.
What is scale shift?
Exemplified by the Save Darfur campaign, the term for relatively low-impact online participation in support of a cause.
What is slacktivism?
The key predictor of whether Russian regional leaders engaged in separatist activism during the country's "ethnic revival."
What is administrative/republic status?
The term for the German women who played a key role in anti-Soviet mobilization but who largely stayed out of typical "politics" in the later 1990s.
Who are the Mothers of Unification?
This animal became the symbol of media silence after CNN Turk showed a documentary featuring it rather than protest footage.
What is a penguin?
The practice - whose end can bring about a revolution - of concealing one's beliefs for fear of punishment by the regime.
What is preference falsification?
Exemplifying *connective action*, this movement in Spain used online tools to mobilize youth in particular.
What is the 15-M/Indignados movement?
The large city in Catalonia that experienced both pro- and anti-separatist protests.
What is Barcelona?
The French nativist group that protested against immigration by trekking up a passage in the Alps using inappropriate footwear for the weather.
What is Generation Identitaire?
This is the Turkish term for "hooligan," used as a "naming" strategy to marginalize protesters.
Çapulcu nedir?
Seen in the Czech global justice movement, this describes protesters' focus shifting to another issue area but without an end to contention.
What is spillover?
The type of cyber attack regimes can use to thwart protesters' mobilization by rendering their online sites unusable.
What is a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack?
Political oppression explains much of Kurds' support for secessionism in Turkey, a campaign led with violence against the state by this group since 1984 (name and acronym).
What is the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)?
The militant separatist group whose members, including Bobby Sands, died of hunger strikes in a practice that evokes historical roots.
What is the Irish Republican Army (IRA)?
Discrediting the blaming strategy that accused protesters of drinking and smoking in a mosque, the local imam said protesters even did this before entering.
What is took off their shoes? Ramazan mubarek!