Street Politics in the Age of Austerity edited by Marcos Ancelovici, Pascale Dufour and Heloïse Nez. - 1 online resource (312 pages) : illustrations ; - Protest and social movements ; 8 . - Protest and social movements ; 8. Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Open Access

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2000-2099


Protest movements.
Social movements
Social movements--History--21st century.
Protest movements--History--21st century.


History.
Electronic books.

HM883 / .S77 2016

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