Recent years have seen an enormous increase in protests across the
world in which citizens have challenged what they see as a
deterioration of democratic institutions and the very civil,
political and social rights that form the basis of democratic life.
Beginning with Iceland in 2008, and then forcefully in Egypt,
Tunisia, Spain, Greece and Portugal, or more recently in Peru,
Brazil, Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Ukraine, people have taken to
the streets against what they perceive as a rampant and dangerous
corruption of democracy, with a distinct focus on inequality and
suffering. This timely new book addresses the anti-austerity social
movements of which these protests form part, mobilizing in the
context of a crisis of neoliberalism. Donatella della Porta shows
that, in order to understand their main facets in terms of social
basis, strategy, and identity and organizational structures, we
should look at the specific characteristics of the socioeconomic,
cultural and political context in which they developed. The result
is an important and insightful contribution to understanding a key
issue of our times, which will be of interest to students and
scholars of political and economic sociology, political science and
social movement studies, as well as political activists.
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