Street Politics in the Age of Austerity / edited by Marcos Ancelovici, Pascale Dufour and Heloïse Nez.
The past few years have seen an unexpected resurgence of street-level protest movements around the world, from the uprisings of the Arab Spring to the rise of the anti-austerity Indignados in Spain and Greece to the global spread of the Occupy movement. This collection is designed to offer a compara...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Protest and social movements ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: from the Indignados to Occupy: prospects for comparison / Pascale Dufour, Heloïse Nez and Marcos Ancelovici
- Austerity and new spaces for protest: the financial crisis and its victims / George Ross
- Mobilization of protest in the age of austerity / Hanspeter Kriesi
- The Spanish Indignados and Israel's social justice movement: the role of political cleavages in two large-scale protests / Ignacia Perugorría, Michael Shalev and Benjamín Tejerina
- "We must register a victory to continue fighting": locating the action of the Indignados in Madrid / Heloïse Nez
- The spatial dimensions of the Greek protest campaign against the troika's memoranda and austerity, 2010-2013 / Maria Kousis
- Occupy Montreal and the politics of horizontalism / Marcos Ancelovici
- Social movements and political moments: reflections on the intersections of global justice movements & Occupy Wall Street / Jackie Smith
- A global movement for real democracy? The resonance of anti-austerity protest from Spain and Greece to Occupy Wall Street / Leonidas Oikonomakis and Jerôme E. Roos
- Camps as the sole symbolic expression of protest: the difficulties of Occupy in Ireland / Clement Desbos and Frederic Royall
- The Occupy movement in France: why protests have not taken off/ Didier Chabanet and Arnaud Lacheret
- Conclusion: place-based movements and macro transformations / Pascale Dufour, Heloïse Nez and Marcos Ancelovici.