Social movements in times of austerity
Subtitle: bringing capitalism back into protest analysis
By: Donatella della Porta
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780745688589; 9780745688596
Subjects: Democratization; Protest movements; Social movements
Description: "This timely new book addresses the anti-austerity social movements of which these protests form part, mobilizing in the context of a crisis of neoliberalism. Donatella della Porta shows that, in order to understand their main facets in terms of social basis, strategy, and identity and organizational structures, we should look at the specific characteristics of the socioeconomic, cultural and political context in which they developed."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The reemergence of a class cleavage? social movements in times of austerity; title: Social structure : old working class, new precariat, or yet something different?; title: Identification processes: class and culture; title: Lo llaman democracia y no lo es : a crisis of responsibility; title: Democracy is not a spectator sport : changing conceptions of democracy in social movements; title: Bringing capitalism back into protest analysis? some concluding remarks.