Roca / Martín-Díaz / Díaz-Parra Challenging Austerity

Radical Left and Social Movements in the South of Europe
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-315-43808-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 180 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Radical History and Politics

This book analyses social movements and radical political parties’ strategies in Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy from 2008 to today. Events in 2011 such as the Arab Spring and the indignados movement in Spain initiated a new cycle of social protest. This book explores how the economic crisis and policies of austerity have transformed and continue to transform social movements, trade unions and radical political parties in Southern Europe.

The economic crisis has led to a rise in protest movements, which confront political institutions and conventional forms of democracy, and develop new spatial and organisational strategies. This book examines these cases, in addition to those groups who, contrastingly, have used institutional politics to achieve their aims, such as new political parties like Podemos in Spain or Movimento 5 Stelle in Italy.

Analysing the extent to which there has been a change in approach when it comes to contesting neo-liberal capitalism, this book makes an important contribution to the study of social movements and radical politics. With a comparative perspective and an emphasis on studying the largely unexplored recent social and political dynamics in the European periphery, this book is essential reading for students, scholars and activists interested in social movements, radical politics and European politics more generally.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roca, Beltrán

Martín-Díaz, Emma

Díaz-Parra, Ibán

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: social movements and radical politics in the European periphery – a world-systems analysis. Beltrán Roca, Emma Martin-Diaz and Iban Diaz-Parra

1. Radical left in Portugal and Spain (1960–2010). Julio Pérez Serrano

2. Greece and Italy after the Second World War: contentious politics, cycles of protest and radical Left. Nikos Serdedakis, Elisabetta della Corte and Markos Vogiatzoglou

3. Indignados, municipalism and Podemos: mobilisation and political cycle in Spain after the Great Recession. Iban Diaz-Parra, Beltrán Roca and Emma Martin-Diaz

4. Political opportunities, threats and opportunism: examining SYRIZA’s rise in crisis-ridden Greek politics. Kostas Kanellopoulos

5. Building the "contraption": anti-austerity movements and political alternative in Portugal. Elísio Estanque, Hermes Augusto Costa and Dora Fonseca

6. When the Spring is not coming: radical Left and social movements in Italy during the austerity era. Simone Castellani and Luca Queirolo Palmas

Conclusion: learning from the economic crisis and the protest cycle in the South of Europe – implications for social movements and the Left. Emma Martin-Diaz, Iban Diaz-Parra and Beltrán Roca

Über Autor(innen)

Beltrán Roca is a Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Cadiz, Spain.

Emma Martín-Díaz is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Seville, Spain.

Ibán Díaz-Parra is a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Seville, Spain.