Wedging open established civil spheres : a comparative approach to their emancipatory potential / Trevor Stack -- Radical protest in a university campus : performances of civil transition in Colombia / Carlo Tognato -- Antiracism movements and the U.S. civil sphere : the case of Black Lives Matter / Stephen F. Ostertag -- The civil sphere and its variants in light of the Arab revolutions and jihadism in Europe / Farhad Khosrokhavar -- Restaging a vital center within radicalized civil societies : the media, performativity, and the Charlie Hebdo attack / MarĂa Luengo and Karoline Andrea Ihlebaek -- Anti-immigrant movements and the self-poisoning of the civil sphere : the case of Germany / Volker M. Heins and Christine Unrau -- The civil sphere and the Irish Republican Movement, 1970-1998 / Anne Kane -- "We all came together that day" : the 2011 English riots as an enactment of solidarity / Yasushi Tanaka-Gutiez -- Disobedience in civil regeneration : radical transformations in the civil sphere / Maeve Cooke -- Commentary / Liv Egholm