Challenging Austerity (eBook, PDF)

Radical Left and Social Movements in the South of Europe
Redaktion: Roca, Beltrán; Díaz-Parra, Ibán; Martín-Díaz, Emma

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses social movements and radical political parties' strategies in Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy from 2008 to today. Events in 2011 such as the Arab Spring and the indignados movement in Spain initiated a new cycle of social protest. This book explores how the economic crisis and policies of austerity have transformed and continue to transform social movements and radical political parties in Southern Europe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315438085
• Artikelnr.: 50517140

Autorenporträt

Beltrán Roca is a Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Cadiz, Spain. Emma Martín-Díaz is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Seville, Spain. Ibán Díaz-Parra is a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Seville, Spain.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: social movements and radical politics in the European
periphery - a world-systems analysis. Beltrán Roca, Emma Martin-Diaz and
Iban Diaz-Parra
1. Radical left in Portugal and Spain (1960-2010). Julio Pérez Serrano
2. Greece and Italy after the Second World War: contentious politics,
cycles of protest and radical Left. Nikos Serdedakis, Elisabetta della
Corte and Markos Vogiatzoglou
3. Indignados, municipalism and Podemos: mobilisation and political cycle
in Spain after the Great Recession. Iban Diaz-Parra, Beltrán Roca and Emma
Martin-Diaz
4. Political opportunities, threats and opportunism: examining SYRIZA's
rise in crisis-ridden Greek politics. Kostas Kanellopoulos
5. Building the "contraption": anti-austerity movements and political
alternative in Portugal. Elísio Estanque, Hermes Augusto Costa and Dora
Fonseca
6. When the Spring is not coming: radical Left and social movements in
Italy during the austerity era. Simone Castellani and Luca Queirolo Palmas
Conclusion: learning from the economic crisis and the protest cycle in the
South of Europe - implications for social movements and the Left. Emma
Martin-Diaz, Iban Diaz-Parra and Beltrán Roca