Street Politics in the Age of Austerity / edited by Marcos Ancelovici, Pascale Dufour and Heloïse Nez.

• TeilnehmendeR: Nez, Heloïse,; Dufour, Pascale, 1971-; Angelovici, Marcos,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Protest and social movements ; 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

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 comparative analysis of these movements, setting them in international, socio-economic, and cross-cultural perspective in order to help us understand why movements emerge, what they do, how they spread, and how they fit into both local and worldwide historical contexts. As the most significant wave of mass protests in decades continues apace, this book offers an authoritative analysis that could not be more timely.

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.