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Anarchist ideas have witnessed a renaissance in the last two decades not only in social movement practices and tactics. Usually, the ‘Battle of Seattle’ at the WTO summit in 1999, with hundreds of black-clad activists raging through the streets and disrupting the WTO-business-as-usual, is referenced as a marking event that put anarchist tactics and anarchists back on the global protest scene. But also more recent events bear witness to the strong presence of both anarchist principles within social movements, such as in the Occupy movement or the French Nuit Debout protests, and to anarchists as actors within movements (Gordon, 2007b, p. 29).
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Woller, A. (2018). Self-Mediation Practices of Arab Anarchists. In: Richter, C., Antonakis, A., Harders, C. (eds) Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation in the Arab World and Asia. Studies in International, Transnational and Global Communications. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-20700-7_3
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