Challenging Austerity: Radical Left and Social Movements in the South of Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367593810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 166 str.

Beltr?n Roca; Emma Mart?n-D?az; Ib?n D?az-Parra

Opis

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 conti

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.