Street Politics in the Age of Austerity : From the Indignados to Occupy / edited by Marcos Ancelovici, Pascale Dufour and Heloïse Nez.

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; From the Indignados to Occupy: Prospects for Comparison; Pascale Dufour, Heloïse 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; Heloïse 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 Jerôme 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; Clement Desbos and Frederic 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, Heloïse 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.

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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.

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