Austerity and Protest: Popular Contention in Times of by Marco Giugni,Maria Grasso,Maria, Dr Grasso,Marco, Professor

By Marco Giugni,Maria Grasso,Maria, Dr Grasso,Marco, Professor Giugni

What is the connection among monetary crises and protest behaviour? Does the adventure of austerity, or financial worry extra extensively outlined, create a better strength for protest?

With protest pursuits and occasions comparable to the Indignados and the Occupy flow receiving loads of recognition within the media and within the well known imaginary in recent years, this path-breaking booklet bargains a rigorously-researched, evidence-based set of chapters at the dating among austerity and protest. In so doing, it presents an intensive assessment of other theories, mechanisms, styles and developments so one can contextualize more moderen advancements, and supply a pivotal element of reference at the dating among those variables.

More in particular, this ebook will converse to 3 an important, long-standing debates in scholarship in political sociology, social move experiences, and comparable fields:

The results of monetary trouble on protest and social movements.

The position of grievances and possibilities in social move theory.

The contrast among ‘old’ and ‘new’ movements.

The chapters during this booklet interact with those 3 key debates and problem more often than not held perspectives of political sociologists and social move students on all 3 counts, hence permitting us to develop research within the field.

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