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.
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Release date 21 May 2013.
List price $143 / £80; discount $114.40 / £64 (order via 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
11 “European
social movements and social theory: a richer narrative?” Laurence Cox and
Cristina Flesher Fominaya
Part II: European precursors to the global justice movement
22 “The
Italian anomaly: place and history in the global justice movement”. Michal
Osterweil
33 “The
emergence and development of the ‘no global’ movement in France: a genealogical
approach”. Isabelle Sommier and Olivier Fillieule
44 “The
continuity of transnational protest: the anti-nuclear movement as a precursor
to the global justice movement”. Emmanuel Rivat
55 “Where
global meets local: Italian social centres and the alterglobalization
movement”. Andrea Membretti and Pierpaolo Mudu
66 “Constructing
a new identity for the alterglobalization movement: the French Confédération
Paysanne as anti-capitalist ‘peasant’ movement”. Edouard Morena
77 “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’
88 “Europe
as contagious space: cross-border diffusion through EuroMayday and climate
justice movements”. Christian Scholl
99 “The
shifting meaning of ‘autonomy’ in the East European diffusion of the alterglobalization
movement: Hungarian and Romanian experiences”. Agnes Gagyi
110 “Collective
identity across borders: bridging local and transnational memories in the
Italian and German global justice movements”. Priska Daphi
111 “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
112 “The
roots of the Saucepan Revolution in Iceland”. Árni Daníel Júlíusson and Magnús
Sveinn Helgason
113 “Collective
learning processes within social movements: some insights into the Spanish 15M
/ Indignados movement”. Eduardo Romanos
114 “Think
globally, act locally? Symbolic memory and global repertoires in the Tunisian
uprising and the Greek anti-austerity mobilizations”. Vittorio Sergi and Markos
Vogiatzoglou
115 “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.
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