Challenging Austerity Radical Left and Social Movements in the South of Europe 1st Edition by Beltrán Roca, Emma Martín Díaz, Ibán Díaz Parra ISBN 978-1138211261 1138211265

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ISBN 10:   1138211265

ISBN 13: 978-1138211261

Author: Beltrán Roca, Emma Martín-Díaz, Ibán Díaz-Parra

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.

Table of contents: 

Introduction

• Social movements and radical politics in the European periphery – a world-systems analysis
  Emma Martin-Diaz, Beltrán Roca and Iban Diaz-Parra

Chapters:

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

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