Resisting Austerity (eBook, ePUB)

Collective Action in Europe in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis
Redaktion: Flesher Fominaya, Cristina; Hayes, Graeme

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the popular resistances to austerity politics in Europe following the global financial crisis of 2008-9. It places anti-austerity mobilisations in perspective, comparing the wave of strikes and occupations by citizens and movements to the global justice movement. It was published as a special issue of Social Movement Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351346641
• Artikelnr.: 57966635

Autorenporträt

Cristina Flesher Fominaya is an Editor of Social Movement Studies, a Founding Editor of Interface Journal, and author of Social Movements and Globalization (Palgrave). She is Reader in Social Politics and Media at Loughborough University, UK. She publishes widely on European and global social movements, hybrid parties, digital politics and media, collective identity, democracy, autonomy, and political participation. Graeme Hayes is Reader in Political Sociology at Aston University, UK, and an Editor of Social Movement Studies. His work focuses on the tactics and ideas of social movements, and their inter-relationship with the state. He is the author of two monographs and co-editor of three collections, most recently Occupy! A Global Movement. Hope, Tactics and Challenges (Routledge, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. European anti
austerity and pro
democracy protests in the wake of the global financial crisis 2. Regimes of austerity 3. The indignant citizen: anti
austerity movements in Southern Europe and the anti
oligarchic reclaiming of citizenship 4. The children of the Carnation Revolution? Connections between Portugal's anti
austerity movement and the revolutionary period 1974/1975 5. Dissenting youth: how student and youth struggles helped shape anti
austerity mobilisations in Southern Europe 6. Polanyi, political
economic opportunity structure and protest: capitalism and contention in the post
communist Czech Republic 7. Competing modes of coordination in the Greek anti
austerity campaign, 2010
2012 8. Life after the squares: reflections on the consequences of the Occupy movements