Puo' interessare ad alcuni di voi. Saluti, Alice
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Alice Mattoni
Research Fellow
Centre on Social Movement Studies
Political and Social Science Department
European University Institute
www.alicemattoni.com
New Book: Mediation and Protest Movements, co-edited with Bart Cammaerts and Patrick McCurdy
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4917/
New Book: Advances in the Visual Analysis of Social Movements, co-edited with Nicole Doerr and Simon Teune
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0163-786x&volume=35
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> From: Laurence Cox <Laurence.Cox@???>
> Date: February 4, 2014 6:18:16 PM GMT+01:00
> To: Alice M <alicemattoni@???>
> Subject: Understanding European Movements now in paperback with discount; inspection copies available
>
> Understanding European Movements now in paperback with discount; inspection copies available
>
> Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Laurence Cox (eds.),
> Understanding European movements: new social movements, global justice struggles, anti-austerity protest
> Routledge 2013, 268 pp.
>
> 20% discount available until 31 Dec 2014. Quote code DC361 on the Routledge website
> Paperback: £24.95 / £19.96 discounted, ISBN 978-1-13-802546-2
> Hardback: £80.00 / £64 discounted, ISBN 978-0-415-63879-1
> E-books and inspection copies also available: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138025462/
>
>
> Due to the high levels of interest, Routledge have given Understanding European Movements an accelerated
> paperback release, just 6 months after the hardback edition. This has happened faster than reviews could be
> published (to date only one review is available, in German): the book has sold widely on word of mouth alone
> and the importance of its subject matter. Routledge are offering a 20% discount this year as well as inspection
> copies for those considering adopting it as a course text.
>
> European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a
> global reach and impact. Today, six years into a new cycle of movements which have shaken Europe from Iceland
> to Greece and from Spain to the Ukraine, the need for an adequate understanding of social movements in Europe
> is greater than ever. Yet the English-language literature has rarely theorised European movements on their own
> terms, instead treating them rather with concepts reflecting the US experience.
>
> Understanding European movements draws on the the ethnographic and historical research of scholars participating
> in the Council for European Studies' network on social movements to offer a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview
> of the key dimensions of European movements over the past forty years. The book's editors are co-founders of the
> open-access social movements journal Interface and well known in the field, while the authors' perspectives are
> grounded in cutting-edge research and engaged scholarship in the movements discussed.
>
> Understanding European movements is a richly-textured book, with chapters exploring the global justice / alterglobalisation
> movement, anti-nuclear power activism, social centres / squatting, peasant organisation, anti-roads protest, EuroMayDay
> and climate justice, Indignados and anti-austerity protest and cases from Italy, France, Germany, Britain, Spain, Greece,
> Hungary, Romania, Iceland and transnational organising. The book explores the European tradition of social movement
> theorising, the historical continuities and breaks between different waves of movements in Europe, the construction of
> social movements on a European scale and the analysis of contemporary anti-austerity movements.
>
> One peer reviewer commented that the book "will fill a big gap in the academic literature on recent and contemporary movements,
> and on the application of European social movement theory"; another wrote "I'd love to have a book that: introduced students
> to the Global Justice Movement and the 'anti-austerity' movements; examined the latter movements' continuities with the former,
> and the continuities of both with even earlier movements; and did all this in terms of European social movement theory".
>
> The first review to be published, by Sabrina Zajak in the Forschungsjournal soziale Bewegungen, commented "This book can be
> recommended to a wide readership interested in the theory and empirical reality of social movements, but also to readers with
> a general interest in European history and the history of thought." That readership can now access the book at an affordable price,
> while those teaching in the field can now offer their students an approach to European movements which is both up-to-date and
> historically grounded and which covers a wide range of countries and movements without attempting to homogenise them under
> a single idea.
>
> The Council for European Studies' Reviews and Critical Commentary carried an in-depth interview with Cristina Flesher Fominaya
> about the book, available online at
>
> http://councilforeuropeanstudies.org/critcom/understanding-european-movements-new-social-movements-global-justice-struggles-anti-austerity-protest/.
>
> Publishers' website: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138025462/
>
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