Violent protest, contentious politics, and the neoliberal state / edited by Seraphim Seferiades [and] Hank Johnston.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The dynamics of violent protest : emotions, repression and disruptive deficit / Seraphim Seferiades and Hank Johnston -- Protest movements and violence / Frances Fox Piven -- The outcomes of political violence : ethical, theoretical and methodological challenges / Lorenzo Bosi and Marco Guigni -- Age cohorts, cognition and collective violence / Hank Johnston -- Political violence in Germany : trends and exploration of causes / Dieter Rucht -- The'unusual suspects' : radical repertoires in consensual settings / Mario Diani -- The riots : a dynamic view / Donatella della Porta and Bernard Gbikpi -- Protest and repression in democracies and autocracies : Europe, Iran, Thailand and the Middle East 2010-2011 / Jack A. Goldstone -- Contemporary French and British urban riots : an exploration of the underlying political dimensions / David Waddington and Mike King -- The volatility of urban riots / Marilena Simiti -- The Greek December, 2008 / Hank Johnston and Seraphim Seferiades -- Along the pathways of rage : the space-time of an uprising / Loukia Kotronaki and Seraphim Seferiades -- The accidental eruption of an anarchist protest / Kostas Kanellopoulos -- Radical minorities, a decade of contention and the Greek December 2008 / Nikos Lountos.