Pots‐and‐Pans Pro‐Democracy Protest (Iceland)
The “Pots‐and‐Pans Revolution” was a wave of popular protest that evolved in Iceland after the global financial crisis triggered a joint collapse of the country's three major banks in October 2008. The protest started as a series of “town meetings” challenging the authorities' framing of t...
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Wiley
2022
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470674871.wbespm609 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9780470674871.wbespm609 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/9780470674871.wbespm609 |
| Summary: | The “Pots‐and‐Pans Revolution” was a wave of popular protest that evolved in Iceland after the global financial crisis triggered a joint collapse of the country's three major banks in October 2008. The protest started as a series of “town meetings” challenging the authorities' framing of the collapse and its enormous impact on the state budget and the country's economy as simply being a part of a “global financial storm.” The alternative frame that emerged at the meetings was that the crisis exposed misrepresentation, corruption, and privilege and thus called for mass civil action to create pressure on the politicians to reform (starting with the immediate resignation of the ruling center‐right government). During the unfolding of the financial crisis, in fall 2008, participation by the general public in protest meetings grew rapidly and the expanding protest platform encouraged activists to perform increasingly radical acts of contention. Eventually, in January 2009, after a few consecutive days of pots‐and‐pans protest, which attracted a quarter of the population of the country's major urban area, the government resigned. |
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