BEIJING — They call themselves the Volunteers — a growing band of young Chinese who stage playful, but pointed, public protests for greater rights for women.
Following McAdam and Boudet [19], the NIMBY category refers to single-point protests.
They use it in a descriptive sense to define local or single-point protests.
Rather, they are a collection of single-point protests that occasionally transcend their own boundaries to take on a more coherent and unified character.
Obviously, there is a large gap between rather disconnected single-point protests and those with the clear characteristics of a social movement.
In contrast, McAdam and Boudet [19] use it in a rather descriptive sense, as an equivalent to local or single-point protests.
At the same time, it would be incorrect to consider the totality of the protests as a universe of isolated, single-point protests: both trans-project networks as well as NIABY-based demands provide evidence that a certain level of coherency between the various protest groups exists.
"It's a miracle we have this many points," protested Paolo Cannavaro.
"They speak elaborately about themselves, constantly pressing the point, protesting too much.
"Up to this point, protest songs functioned as propaganda, but 'Strange Fruit' proved they could be art".
