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Onderwerp: [WSF-Discuss] Just published: "Understanding European
movements: new social movements, global justice struggles,
anti-austerity protest"
Datum: Tue, 21 May 2013 08:45:52 +0100
Van: Laurence Cox <Laurence.Cox@???>
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*Just published
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*Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Laurence Cox, eds. (2013) /Understanding
European Movements:/**//**/New Social Movements, Global Justice
Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protest/**.****London: Routledge (**/Advances
in Sociology/**series).*
304 pp. hardback, ISBN 978-0-415-63879-1.
List price $143 / £80; discount $114.40 / £64 (order via
www.routledge.com <
http://www.routledge.com>using discount code ERJ67*).
Release date 21 May 2013.
European social movements have been central to European history,
politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact.
Yet they have rarely been taken on their own terms in the
English-language literature, considered rather as counterpoints to the
US experience. This has been exacerbated by the failure of Anglophone
social movement theorists to pay attention to the substantial
literatures in languages such as French, German, Spanish or Italian --
and by the increasing global dominance of English in the production of
news and other forms of media. As a result, while anti-austerity and
/Indignados/ movements have become key actors on the European stage,
much public commentary is deeply restricted in its understanding and
analysis. This book sets out to take the European social movement
experience seriously on its own terms, including:
- the European tradition of social movement theorising -- particularly
in its attempt to understand movement development from the 1960s onwards
- the extent to which European movements between 1968 and 1999 became
precursors for the contemporary anti-globalisation movement
- the construction of the anti-capitalist "movement of movements" within
the European setting
- the new anti-austerity protests in Iceland, Greece, Spain (15-
M/Indignados), and elsewhere.
The book represents a collaborative project by participants in the
Council for European Studies' social movements research network. Its 15
chapters include authors based in 11 countries whose analyses are all
grounded in ethnographic and historical research on these movements --
in Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy,
Romania, Spain and the UK as well as transnational relationships -- and
in keeping with the traditions of European movement research many are
active, critical participants in the movements they analyse.
This book offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary perspective on the
key European social movements in the past forty years and sets
present-day struggles in their longer-term national, historical and
political contexts. It will be of interest for students and scholars of
politics and international relations, sociology, history, European
studies and social theory.
Contents
"Introduction". Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Laurence Cox
Part I: European theory / European movements
1."European social movements and social theory: a richer narrative?"
Laurence Cox and Cristina Flesher Fominaya
Part II: European precursors to the global justice movement
2."The Italian anomaly: place and history in the global justice
movement". Michal Osterweil
3."The emergence and development of the 'no global' movement in France:
a genealogical approach". Isabelle Sommier and Olivier Fillieule
4."The continuity of transnational protest: the anti-nuclear movement as
a precursor to the global justice movement". Emmanuel Rivat
5."Where global meets local: Italian social centres and the
alterglobalization movement". Andrea Membretti and Pierpaolo Mudu
6."Constructing a new identity for the alterglobalization movement: the
French Confédération Paysanne as anti-capitalist 'peasant' movement".
Edouard Morena
7."Movement culture continuity: the British anti-roads movement as
precursor to the global justice movement". Cristina Flesher Fominaya
Part III. Culture and identity in the construction of the European
'movement of movements'
8."Europe as contagious space: cross-border diffusion through EuroMayday
and climate justice movements". Christian Scholl
9."The shifting meaning of 'autonomy' in the East European diffusion of
the alterglobalization movement: Hungarian and Romanian experiences".
Agnes Gagyi
10."Collective identity across borders: bridging local and transnational
memories in the Italian and German global justice movements". Priska Daphi
11."At home in the movement: constructing an oppositional identity
through activist travel across European squats". Linus Owens, Ask
Katseff, Elisabeth Lorenzi and Baptiste Colin
Part IV. Understanding the new 'European Spring': anti-austerity,
15-M, Indignados
12."The roots of the Saucepan Revolution in Iceland". Árni Daníel
Júlíusson and Magnús Sveinn Helgason
13."Collective learning processes within social movements: some insights
into the Spanish 15M / Indignados movement". Eduardo Romanos
14."Think globally, act locally? Symbolic memory and global repertoires
in the Tunisian uprising and the Greek anti-austerity mobilizations".
Vittorio Sergi and Markos Vogiatzoglou
15."Fighting for a voice: the Spanish 15-M / Indignados movement".
Kerman Calvo
"Conclusion: anti-austerity protests in European and global context --
future agendas for research". Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Laurence Cox
About the editors
*Cristina Flesher Fominaya***has a PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley and
works at the University of Aberdeen. *Laurence Cox***co-directs the MA
in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism at the National
University of Ireland, Maynooth. They are founding co-editors of the
social movements journal /Interface/ and co-chairs of the Council for
European Studies' social movements research network.
Further details at
http://tinyurl.com/euro-movements or
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415638791/.
