The Mobilization and Demobilization of Middle-Class Revolt: Comparative Insights from Argentina

ISBN-13: 9780815358183 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 258 str.

Daniel Ozarow

Opis

Adopting Argentina’s rebellion as a case study, The Mobilization and Demobilization of Middle-Class Revolt uses analysis of data and participant interviews, to explore why non-politically active middle-class citizens become politicised and resist their plight by participating in radical protest movements.

Spis treści

1. Middle-Class Resistance to Proletarianization and Neoliberal Crisis from buenos Aires to Wall Street 2. That Sinking Feeling: The Experience of Mass Pauperization in Argentina, Hegemony, Control and Contentious Politics 3. "Crying for Argentina" (Or For Themselves?) Mobilization and the 2001-02 Saucepan revolt 4. Banging on the other Side of the Saucepan: The Struggling Middle Class under Kirchnerismo and Macrismo (2003-18) Conclusions: Struggling Middle-Class Radicalism. Past, Presentand Future Appendix: Interviewee Sample

O autorze

Daniel Ozarow is a Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University, London. He is Chair of the Argentina Research Network and Co-editor of two books: Argentina since the 2001 Crisis: Recovering Reclaiming the Future (2014) and De la Crisis de 2001 al Kirchnerismo: Cambios y Continuidades (2016). He researches on comparative citizen responses to financial crises in Europe and Latin America, workers’ self-management, cooperatives, alternative postcrisis production models, transnational labor movements, and how both personal and national debt is resisted. Daniel has recently been published in academic journals, such as Economy and Society, Sociology, Labor History and Latin American Research Review. He blends his academic research with political activism and is Chair of Jubilee Debt Campaign’s Academic Advisory Network and a member of Action for Argentina UK. He regularly features as a political commentator on British and Argentinian affairs and has appeared on television, radio and newspapers, including Telesur, C5N, Al Jazeera, TN, Radio Nacional Argentina, The Conversation, Labour Briefing, Telam and Open Democracy.