Open AccessThe People Demand Social Justice: The Social Protest in Israel as an Agoral Gathering
Author(s) -
Leehu Zysberg
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal for perspectives of economic, political and social integration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2300-0945
pISSN - 1733-3911
DOI - 10.2478/pepsi-2018-0007
Subject(s) - analogy , politics , social change , sociology , social justice , social inertia , social philosophy , scale (ratio) , social psychology , social science , criminology , political science , psychology , social relation , law , epistemology , geography , philosophy , cartography
The summer of 2011 has seen the first mass-scale social protest in Israel in its 70 years of existence. This social wave that shook the country, showed unique characteristics a-typical of most social and political uprisings, that go largely unexplained by social theories of social change and crowd psychology. In this article I am analyzing published reports of the social protest of 2011, and draw the analogy with the concept of ‘Agoral Gathering’ that may account for these events and support discussion of their aftermath.