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Street politics in the age of austerity : from the Indignados to Occupy /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Angelovici, Marcos (Editor ), Dufour, Pascale, 1971- (Editor ), Nez, Héloïse (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2016]
Colección:Protest and social movements ; 8.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; From the Indignados to Occupy: Prospects for Comparison; Pascale Dufour, Héloïse Nez and Marcos Ancelovici; Part 1
  • How Structural Factors Shape Mobilization; 2. Austerity and New Spaces for Protest; The Financial Crisis and Its Victims; George Ross; 3. Mobilization of Protest in the Age of Austerity; Hanspeter Kriesi; 4. 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.
  • Part 2
  • The Practical and Spatial Dimensions of Activism5. "We Must Register a Victory to Continue Fighting"; Locating the Action of the Indignados in Madrid; Héloïse Nez; 6. The Spatial Dimensions of the Greek Protest Campaign against the Troika's Memoranda and Austerity, 2010-2013; Maria Kousis; 7. Occupy Montreal and the Politics of Horizontalism; Marcos Ancelovici; Part 3
  • Complex Diffusion, from the Global Justice Movement to Indignados to Occupy; 8. Social Movements and Political Moments; Reflections on the Intersections of Global Justice Movements & Occupy Wall Street; Jackie Smith.
  • 9. A Global Movement for Real Democracy?The Resonance of Anti-Austerity Protest from Spain and Greece to Occupy Wall Street; Leonidas Oikonomakis and Jérôme E. Roos; Part 4
  • When the Crisis Is not Enough; 10. Camps as the Sole Symbolic Expression of Protest; The Difficulties of Occupy in Ireland; Clément Desbos and Frédéric Royall; 11. The Occupy Movement in France; Why Protests Have Not Taken Off; Didier Chabanet and Arnaud Lacheret; 12. Conclusion; Place-Based Movements and Macro Transformations; Pascale Dufour, Héloïse Nez and Marcos Ancelovici; List of Authors; Index.
  • List of Tables and IllustrationsCharts; Chart 2.1
  • Euro Area (18) GDP Growth Rate; Chart 2.2
  • Euro Area (18) Unemployment Rate; Chart 2.3
  • Euro Area (18) Youth Unemployment Rate (under 25); Chart 2.4
  • Euro Area (18) Long-term Unemployment Rate (12 months and more); Figures; Figure 4.1
  • Proportion of strong supporters relative to the mean, according to left-right position; Figure 4.2
  • Two types of engagement in protest, by left-right ideology; Figure 4.3
  • Two types of engagement in protest, by attitude towards redistribution; Figure 4.4
  • Correlates of the left-right cleavage in Spain.
  • Figure 4.5
  • Passive and active support for the Israeli protests by sociopolitical blocFigure 4.6
  • Passive support for the Israeli protests by sociopolitical bloc and fear of future economic distress; Figure 4.7
  • The joint effects of religiosity and leftism on support and participation in the Spanish 15M protests; Figure 4.8
  • The joint effects of regional identity and leftism on support and participation in the 15M demonstrations; Figure 4.9
  • OLS regressions predicting high passive support or active participation in the 15M and 14J protests.
  • Figure 8.1
  • Logics of action and their organizational implications.