Austerity and Protest
Popular Contention in Times of Economic Crisis
Marco Giugni author Maria Grasso author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:28th Nov '15
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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.
'Giugni and Grasso’s edited volume provides an innovative and meticulous perspective to a topic of great contemporary relevance. I highly recommend it to students and scholars of social movements, political participation, and political sociology at large.'
Sotirios Karampampas University of Sheffield,The British Journal of Sociology 2016 Volume 67 Issue 4
There was a time when scholars took seriously the economic roots of societal unrest, but somehow, even as the field of social movement studies grew dramatically over the past 30 years, interest in the topic waned. That's what makes Giugni and Grasso so welcome and, in light of growing inequality around the globe, so timely.
Doug McAdam, Stanford University, USA and author of Deeply Divided
ISBN: 9781472439185
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 580g
226 pages