| Austerity and Protest: Popular Contention in Times of Economic Crisis Revised Edition Contributor(s): Giugni, Marco (Author), Grasso, Maria (Author) |
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ISBN: 147243918X ISBN-13: 9781472439185 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $178.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Freedom - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 322.4 |
| LCCN: 2015018455 |
| Series: Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Cultur |
| Physical Information: 226 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What is the relationship between economic crises and protest behaviour? Does the experience of austerity, or economic hardship more broadly defined, create a greater potential for protest? With protest movements and events such as the Indignados and the Occupy Movement receiving a great deal of attention in the media and in the popular imaginary in recent times, this path-breaking book offers a rigorously-researched, evidence-based set of chapters on the relationship between austerity and protest. In so doing, it provides a thorough overview of different theories, mechanisms, patterns and trends which will contextualize more recent developments, and provide a pivotal point of reference on the relationship between these two variables. More specifically, this book will speak to three crucial, long-standing debates in scholarship in political sociology, social movement studies, and related fields: The effects of economic hardship on protest and social movements. The role of grievances and opportunities in social movement theory. The distinction between 'old' and 'new' movements. The chapters in this book engage with these three key debates and challenge commonly held views of political sociologists and social movement scholars on all three counts, thus allowing us to advance study in the field. |