Frontmatter --Table of Contents --Acknowledgments --1. Riding the wave. Protest cascades, and what we can learn from them /della Porta, Donatella --2. The spirit of Gezi. A relational approach to eventful protest and its challenges /della Porta, Donatella / Atak, Kivanc --3. Brazil's popular awakening - June 2013. Accounting for the onset of a new cycle of contention /Mendes, Mariana S. --4. Making sense of "La Salida". Challenging left-wing control in Venezuela /Masullo, Juan --5. The Marikana Massacre and Labor Protest in South Africa /O'Connor, Francis --6. Left in translation. The curious absence of austerity frames in the 2013 Bulgarian protests /Rone, Julia --7. "Sow hunger, reap anger". From neoliberal privatization to new collective identities in Bosnia-Herzegovina /Milan, Chiara --8. A spirit of Maidan? Contentious escalation in Ukraine /Ritter, Daniel P. --9. Riding the wave. Some conclusions /della Porta, Donatella --Bibliography --Index