Beyond Defeat and Austerity: Disrupting (the Critical Political Economy Of) Neoliberal Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367872380 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 288 str.

David Bailey; Monica Clua-Losada; Nikolai Huke

Opis

This book takes as its point of departure the observation that much of the critical discussion of the European political economy and the Eurozone crisis has focused upon an impending sense that solidaristic achievements built up during the first thirty years of the post-war period are being continuously unravelled.

Spis treści

Introduction

1. Beyond Left Melancholy: towards a disruption-oriented account



2. The limits of market-based pacification: Labour unrest and European integration　



3. In search of a new radicalism? Workers and trade unions during the European crisis 



4. Resisting neoliberal Europe, responding to the dismantling of welfare states 



5. Defending the common: struggles against marketization and austerity in education



6. Everyday endeavours towards a needs-based housing policy



7. Trapped between authoritarian constitutionalism, pragmatic prefigurative movements and Brexit? Disrupting neoliberal Europe

 

O autorze

David Bailey is a Senior Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham. He is the author of The Political Economy of European Social Democracy: A Critical Realist Approach (Routledge) and co-editor of European Social Democracy During the Global Economic Crisis: Renovation or Resignation? (Manchester University Press). He recently co-edited a special issue of Comparative European Politics, on contention in the age of austerity in Europe.

Mònica Clua-Losada is Associate Professor in Global Political Economy at the Department of Political Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She is also an executive board member of the Johns Hopkins University- Universitat Pompeu Fabra Public Policy Center in Barcelona. Her research focuses on the contestation, subversion and resistance by labour and other social movements of capitalist relations of domination. She has written and researched on the effects of the current financial crisis on the Spanish state, the British labour movement and social movements in Spain. Her work has been published in different languages and outlets.

Nikolai Huke is a Research Assistant and Lecturer in Political Science at Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen. He is the author of two recent books on social movements in Spain during the Eurozone crisis (Krisenproteste in Spanien (2016) and ‘Sie repräsentieren uns nicht’. Soziale Bewegungen und Krisen der Demokratie in Spanien (2017)). His research interests include European integration, democratic theory, Critical International Political Economy, vulnerability and resistance, everyday agency, transformations of welfare states, industrial relations and migration policy.

Olatz Ribera-Almandoz is a PhD candidate at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. She is also a visiting PhD student at th