Andrew Robinson is a UK-based independent researcher and activist. He authored Power, Resistance and Conflict in the Contemporary World and over 20 articles and chapters.

Alissa Starodub is a Graduate Researcher at the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.

Introduction: Utopian Ruptures, Alissa Starodub and Andrew Robinson / Part I: Theoretical Reflections / Chapter 1: A Theory of Rupture: Riot and Participatory Research, Alissa Starodub / Chapter 2: Life is Magical: Affect and Empowerment in Autonomous Social Movements, Andrew Robinson / Chapter 3: Riot, Rupture and Insurrectionary Theatre in a Dysfunctional Society, Puv Love / Chapter 4: On the Spatiality of Square Occupations: Lessons from Syntagma and Tahrir, Dimitris Soudias / Part II: Expressions / Riots and Militant Occupations in Pictures and Poems / Part III: Critical Case Studies / Chapter 5: 'Riots' in the Jungle: Collective Refusal and Resistance in Calais, Calais Migrant Solidarity / Chapter 6: Riots and Remembrance on the Streets of Barcelona: The Collective Learning of Subversive Techniques, Peter Gelderloos / Chapter 7: Cortège de Tête,
Mauvaise Troupe / Chapter 8: The Pressure to Condemn: Narrating the Stockholm Riot of 2013, Janna Frenzel / Chapter 9: Contesting Neoliberalism: The Political Economy of the 2012 Occupy Nigeria Protests, Kehinde Olusola Olayode / Chapter 10: Media as a Double Edged Sword: Grassroots Media Work in the Syrian Revolution, Ayham Dayoub / Chapter 11: "Kick it like China" - Riots, Action, and Repression, Katika Kühnreich / Conclusion: Some Reflections on Contemporary Riots and Militant Occupations, Andrew Robinson and Alissa Starodub / About the Authors / Index