The project examines protest culture in the Bohemian lands during the formation of modern mass society. It deals with protests as symptoms of serious social crises. It approaches the problem on the basis of selected cases of excesses, the form of which the state authorities had not experienced before. The project focuses on decision-making mechanisms and strategic communication of state institutions in moments of breakdown of social consensus. It also reconstructs the protest practice itself. Through the tension between the official and political appeals and the situation “on the ground”, it identifies the actors of the events and personal motivations. Through an anthropology of protest as a dynamic event, the project analyses the norms, discourses and practices appropriated by the actors. Altogether, the project tests established chronologies and provides new insights into the history of modern urban protest, the formation of modern state and their mutual interplay.
