Politics of Dissent offers a framework to account for the multiple manifestations of dissent and their contributions to shape political alternatives. The book highlights the potential of dissent from the initial questioning of the dominant system to the creation of new political and social agendas.

Contents: Martin Bak Jørgensen/Óscar García Agustín: The Politics of Dissent – Martin Bak Jørgensen/Óscar García Agustín: The Postmodern Prince: The Political Articulation of Social Dissent – Sandro Nickel: Current Western Reactions to Mass Surveillance:Movement or Just Protests? – Giuseppe Cocco: The Dance of the Fireflies in Brazil – Yavuz Yıldırım: Social Movements in Turkey: Changing Dynamics since 1968 – Justin AK Helepololei: Manual Transmission: The Do-It-Yourself Theory of Occupy Wall Street and Spain’s 15M – Lucky Igohosa Ugbudian: Occupy Nigeria: Paradigm Shift in Mass Resistance – Andrea Fumagalli: Commonwealth, Commonfare and the Money of Common: The Challenge to Fight Life Subsumption – Erik Christensen/Christian Ydesen: Creating a Network of Dissent - The Heretical Idea of Basic Income – Peter Nielsen: No Future - Degrowth as Dissent in the Wealth Society – Martin Bak Jørgensen/Óscar García Agustín: Nine Theses on Dissent.