1st Edition
Challenging Austerity Radical Left and Social Movements in the South of Europe
Introduction: social movements and radical politics in the European periphery – a world-systems analysis. Beltrán Roca, Emma Martin-Diaz and Iban Diaz-Parra
1. Radical left in Portugal and Spain (1960–2010). Julio Pérez Serrano
2. Greece and Italy after the Second World War: contentious politics, cycles of protest and radical Left. Nikos Serdedakis, Elisabetta della Corte and Markos Vogiatzoglou
3. Indignados, municipalism and Podemos: mobilisation and political cycle in Spain after the Great Recession. Iban Diaz-Parra, Beltrán Roca and Emma Martin-Diaz
4. Political opportunities, threats and opportunism: examining SYRIZA’s rise in crisis-ridden Greek politics. Kostas Kanellopoulos
5. Building the "contraption": anti-austerity movements and political alternative in Portugal. Elísio Estanque, Hermes Augusto Costa and Dora Fonseca
6. When the Spring is not coming: radical Left and social movements in Italy during the austerity era. Simone Castellani and Luca Queirolo Palmas
Conclusion: learning from the economic crisis and the protest cycle in the South of Europe – implications for social movements and the Left. Emma Martin-Diaz, Iban Diaz-Parra and Beltrán Roca
Biography
Beltrán Roca is a Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Cadiz, Spain.
Emma Martín-Díaz is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Seville, Spain.
Ibán Díaz-Parra is a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Seville, Spain.
