Understanding European Movements

This book offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary perspective on the key European social movements in the past forty years. Expert contributions explore the European tradition of social movement theorising, the construction of the anti-capitalist "movement of movements" within the European setting, and the new anti-austerity protests in Iceland, Greece, Spain, and elsewhere.

Introduction Part I: European Theory / European Movements 1. European Social Movements and Social Theory: A Richer Narrative? Part II: European Precursors To The Global Justice Movement 2. The Italian Anomaly: Place and History in the Global Justice Movement 3. The Emergence and Development of the No Global Movement in France: A Genealogical Approach 4. The Continuity of Transnational Protest: The Anti-Nuclear Movement as a Precursor of the Global Justice Movement 5. Where Global Meets Local: Italian Social Centres and the Alterglobalisation Movement 6. Constructing a New Collective Identity for the Alterglobalisation Movement: The French Confédération Paysanne (CP) as Anti-Capitalist 'Peasant' Movement 7. Movement Culture Continuity: The British Anti-Roads Movement as Precursor to the Global Justice Movement 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 9. The Shifting Meaning of 'Autonomy' in the East European Diffusion of the Alterglobalisation Movement: Hungarian and Romanian Experiences 10. Collective Identity across Borders: Bridging Local and Transnational Memories in the Italian and German Global Justice Movements 11. At Home in the Movement: Constructing an Oppositional Identity through Activist Travel across European Squats Part IV: Understanding the New 'European Spring': Anti-Austerity, 15-M, Occupy 12. The Roots of the Saucepan Revolution in Iceland 13. Collective Learning Processes within Social Movements: Some Insights into the Spanish 15M/Indignados Movement 14. Think Globally, Act Locally? Symbolic Memory and Global Repertoires in the Tunisian Uprising and the Greek Anti-Austerity Mobilisations 15. Fighting for a Voice: The Spanish 15-M / Indignados Movement Conclusion - Anti-Austerity Protests In European and Global Context: Future Agendas for Research