Streets, Tear Gas, and Hashtags. An Atlas of Protests Worldwide

The last few years have been characterised by a growth of protest movements worldwide. Images of massive street demonstrations have emerged from numerous countries, testifying to the existence of opposition movements of different natures, real uprisings or revolutions in the making. This panel will discuss some of these cases, thanks to the voices of experts from different territories, from Russia to Latin America, trying to understand what forces are driving this wave of protests, their reasons and what they are united by. How is the world responding to the rise of something that is increasingly taking on the features of a new authoritarianism?