Understanding European Movements New Social Movements, Global Justice Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protest

Introduction by Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Laurence Cox  Part I: European Theory / European Movements  1. European Social Movements and Social Theory: A Richer Narrative? By Laurence Cox and Cristina Flesher Fominaya  Part II: European Precursors To The Global Justice Movement  2. The Italian Anomaly: Place and History in the Global Justice Movement by Michal Osterweil  3. The Emergence and Development of the No Global Movement in France: A Genealogical Approach by Isabelle Sommier And Olivier Fillieule  4. The Continuity of Transnational Protest: The Anti-Nuclear Movement as a Precursor of the Global Justice Movement by Emmanuel Rivat  5. Where Global Meets Local: Italian Social Centres and the Alterglobalisation Movement by Andrea Membretti and Pierpaolo Mudu  6. Constructing a New Collective Identity for the Alterglobalisation Movement: The French Confédération Paysanne (CP) as Anti-Capitalist 'Peasant' Movement by Edouard Morena  7. Movement Culture Continuity: The British Anti-Roads Movement as Precursor to the Global Justice Movement by Cristina Flesher Fominaya  Part III: Culture and Identity in the Construction of the European "Movement of Movements"  8. Europe as Contagious Space: Cross-Border Diffusion through Euromayday and Climate Justice Movements by Christian Scholl  9. The Shifting Meaning of ‘Autonomy’ in the East European Diffusion of the Alterglobalisation Movement: Hungarian and Romanian Experiences by Agnes Gagyi  10. Collective Identity across Borders: Bridging Local and Transnational Memories in the Italian and German Global Justice Movements by Priska Daphi  11. At Home in the Movement: Constructing an Oppositional Identity through Activist Travel across European Squats by Linus Owens, Ask Katseff, Baptiste Colin and Elisabeth Lorenzi  Part IV: Understanding the New ‘European Spring’: Anti-Austerity, 15-M, Occupy  12. The Roots of the Saucepan Revolution in Iceland by Árni Daníel Júlíusson and Magnús Sveinn Helgason  13. Collective Learning Processes within Social Movements: Some Insights into the Spanish 15M/Indignados Movement by Eduardo Romanos  14. Think Globally, Act Locally? Symbolic Memory and Global Repertoires in the Tunisian Uprising and the Greek Anti-Austerity Mobilisations by Vittorio Sergi and Markos Vogiatzoglou  15. Fighting for a Voice: The Spanish 15-M / Indignados Movement by Kerman Calvo.  Conclusion – Anti-Austerity Protests In European and Global Context: Future Agendas for Research by Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Laurence Cox

Biography

Cristina Flesher Fominaya has a PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley and works at the University of Aberdeen. She is a founding co-editor of the journal Interface.

Laurence Cox co-directs the MA in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. He co-edits the social movements journal Interface.

"Fominaya and Cox have managed to masterfully put together a coherent collection of critical analyses and skillfully provide the analytical framework in which the three empirical parts of the book unfold. […]The volume should rightly be considered a crucial tool for understanding contemporary activism in Europe as part of a long historical process unfolding in an increasingly global setting." Parthena Xanthopoulou-Dimitriadou in ROAR Magazine