ABSTRACT
How do current forms of public disorder converge or differ from each other, and how do they contrast with previous ones within respective countries? Logics of benign neglect, second-rate citizenship, the violation of civil rights, excessive abuse from elites, institutional racism, or mere political domination trigger the citizens’ anger and outrage, some of them eager to resort to public disorder to make their emotions more visible, others preferring more peaceful modes of expression. Such behaviours indicate that alternative, horizontal modes of expression are currently taking place, accelerated and impacted by global forms of communication which allow bottom-up initiatives to rapidly spread among those eager to spatially participate in mobilizations or to bring them other forms of support.
