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Voices of the multitudeArticulating DissentProtest and the Public SpherePollyanna RuizArticulating Dissent analyses the new communicative strategies ofcoalition protest movements and how these impact on a mainstreammedia unaccustomed to fractured articulations of dissent.Pollyanna Ruiz shows how coalition protest movements againstausterity, war and globalisation build upon the communicativestrategies of older single issue campaigns such as the anti-criminaljustice bill protests and the women’s peace movement. She arguesthat such protest groups are dismissed in the mainstream for notarticulating a ‘unified position’ and explores the way in whichcontemporary protesters stemming from different traditions maintainsolidarity.Articulating Dissent investigates the ways in which this diversity, soinherent in coalition protest, affects the movement of ideas from thepolitical margins to the mainstream. In doing so this book offers aninsightful and original analysis of the protest coalition as a developingpolitical form.Pollyanna Ruiz is a Fellow in the Department of Media andCommunication at the London School of Economics.NEXT READTweets and the StreetsSocial Media and Contemporary ActivismPaolo GerbaudoPb 978-0-7453-3248-2 £16.99EPUB 978-1-8496-4801-1 £16.99Kindle 978-1-8496-4802-8 £16.99March 2014248pp 215mm x 135mmPb 978-0-7453-3305-2 £18.99Hb 978-0-7453-3306-9 £65Epub 978-1-8496-4886-8 £18.99Kindle 978-1-8496-4887-5 £18.99@ Is for ActivismDissent, Resistance and Rebellion in a DigitalCultureJoss HandsPb 978-0-7453-2700-6 £17.99EPUB 978-1-7837-1051-5 £17.99Kindle 978-1-7837-1052-2 £17.99www.plutobooks.com PlutoPress 11