Street Politics in the Age of Austerity - From the Indignados to Occupy

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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• Authors: Marcos Dufour Ancelovici
• Assisted by: Marcos Ancelovici (Editor), Marcos Angelovici (Editor), Pascale Dufour (Editor), Heloise Nez (Editor), Héloïse Nez (Editor)
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9789089647634
• ISBN: 978-90-8964-763-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 242 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Protest and Social Movements; Protest and Social Movements; Amsterdam University Press
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education