Direct Democracy Now! organise protest in Syntagma Square, June 2011. Demotix/ Amira Karoud. All rights reserved.
Social movement studies have developed a useful toolkit of concepts to deal with collective action in normal times—meaning structured times. Mainly, they have addressed systems in so-called advanced democracies, with developed welfare states. Theorization has been oriented towards the explanation of the impact of structures on collective action. The main expectation is that protest requires opportunities and resources.
