Late neoliberalism and its discontents in the economic crisis : comparing social movements in the European periphery
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Bibliographic Information
Late neoliberalism and its discontents in the economic crisis : comparing social movements in the European periphery
Springer, c2017
- hbk.
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
References: p. 293-296
Other authors: Massimiliano Andretta, Tiago Fernandes, Francis O'Connor, Eduardo Romanos, Markos Vogiatzoglou
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book analyses protests against the Great Recession in the European periphery. While social movements have long been considered as children of affluent times - or at least of times of opening opportunities - these protests defy such expectations, developing instead in moments of diminishing opportunities in both the economic and the political realms. Can social movement studies still be useful to understanding these movements of troubled times? The authors offer a positive answer to this question, although specify the need to bridge contentious politics with other fields, including political economy. They highlight differences in the social movements' strength and breadth and attempt to understand them in terms of three sets of dimensions: a) the specific characteristics of the socio-economic crisis and its consequences in terms of mobilization potential; b) the political reactions to it, in what we can define as political opportunities and threats; and c) the social movement cultures and structures that characterize each country. The book discusses these topics through a contextualized analysis of anti-austerity protest in the European periphery.
Table of Contents
About the Authors.- Chapter 1. Late neoliberalism and its discontents: An introduction.- Chapter 2. Iceland's mobilization in the financial crisis.- Chapter 3. The presence and absence of protest in austerity Ireland.- Chapter 4. Turbulent flow: Anti-austerity mobilization in Greece.- Chapter 5. Late neoliberalism and its Indignados: Contention in austerity Spain.- Chapter 6. Building alliances: Successful anti-austerity mobilization in Portugal. Chapter 7. Late neoliberalism and its discontents in Italy: protests without movement?.- Chapter 8. Cyprus' explosion: financial crisis and anti-austerity mobilization.- Chapter 9. Late neoliberalism and its discontents: A comparative conclusion.- Index.
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