Social movements in times of austerity : bringing capitalism back into protest analysis

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dc.contributor.authorDELLA PORTA, Donatella
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-08T15:39:17Z
dc.date.available2015-05-08T15:39:17Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractRecent years have seen an enormous increase in protests across the world in which citizens have challenged what they see as a deterioration of democratic institutions and the very civil, political and social rights that form the basis of democratic life. Beginning with Iceland in 2008, and then forcefully in Egypt, Tunisia, Spain, Greece and Portugal, or more recently in Peru, Brazil, Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Ukraine, people have taken to the streets against what they perceive as a rampant and dangerous corruption of democracy, with a distinct focus on inequality and suffering. This timely new book addresses the anti-austerity social movements of which these protests form part, mobilizing in the context of a crisis of neoliberalism. Donatella della Porta shows that, in order to understand their main facets in terms of social basis, strategy, and identity and organizational structures, we should look at the specific characteristics of the socioeconomic, cultural and political context in which they developed. The result is an important and insightful contribution to understanding a key issue of our times, which will be of interest to students and scholars of political and economic sociology, political science and social movement studies, as well as political activists.en
dc.description.tableofcontents-- Chapter 1: The reemergence of a class cleavage? Social movements in times of austerity -- Chapter 2: Social structure: old working class, new precariat, or yet something different? -- Chapter 3: Identification processes: class and culture -- Chapter 4: Lo llaman democracia y no lo es: a crisis of responsibility -- Chapter 5: Democracy is not a spectator sport: changing conceptions of democracy in social movements -- Chapter 6: Bringing capitalism back into protest analysis? Some concluding remarks -- Notes -- Referencesen
dc.identifier.citationCambridge ; Malden : Polity press, 2015en
dc.identifier.isbn9780745688596
dc.identifier.isbn9780745688589
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/35684
dc.language.isoenen
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dc.titleSocial movements in times of austerity : bringing capitalism back into protest analysisen
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