1st Edition
New and Alternative Social Movements in Spain The Left, Identity and Globalizing Processes
1. Key Issues in the Study of New and Alternative Social Movements in Spain: The Left, Identity and Globalizing Processes 2. Sacrifices that Pay: Polity Membership, Political Opportunities and the Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage in Spain 3. Are Gender Equality Institutions the Policy Allies of the Feminist Movement? A Contingent ‘Yes’ in the Spanish Central State 4. Autonomous Movements and the Institutional Left: Two Approaches in Tension in Madrid’s Anti-globalization Network 5. The Environmental Movement in Spain: A Growing Force of Contention 6. The Squatters’ Movement: Urban Counter-Culture and Alter-Globalization Dynamics 7. Mobilizations against the Iraq War in Spain: Background, Participants and Electoral Implications
Biography
John Karamichas is lecturer in sociology in the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work at Queen's University of Belfast, UK. His recent publications include, London 2012 and Environmental Sustainability: A Study through the Lens of Environmental Sociology, Sociological Research Online, vol. 18, issue 3; The Olympics and the Environment (2013); Olympic Games, Mega-Events and Civil Societies: Globalization, Environment, Resistance (with Graeme Hayes, 2011).
"New and Alternative Movements in Spain, edited by John Karamichas, is a valuable contribution to the understand-ing of the Spanish case."
-- Carlos Rico Motos, University Pablo de Olavide
