Resisting Austerity: Collective Action in Europe in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis

ISBN-13: 9781138564565 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 160 str.

Hayes, Graeme

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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