Late Neoliberalism and its Discontents in the Economic Crisis: Comparing Social Movements in the European Periphery PDF
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Donatella della Porta, Massimiliano Andretta, Tiago Fernandes, Eduardo Romanos, Francis O’Connor, Markos Vogiatzoglou LATE NEOLIBERALISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS IN THE ECONOMIC CRISIS Comparing Social Movements in the European Periphery Late Neoliberalism and its Discontents in the Economic Crisis “This encompassing volume offers a novel relational and dynamic perspec- tive on the anti-austerity movements in seven countries of the European periphery, those hit hardest by the recent crisis. It will be an integral read- ing for all those seeking to understand the recent anti-austerity move- ment, in and beyond the European periphery.” – Maria Kousis, Professor of Sociology, University of Crete, Greece “The comparative perspective on cross-national similarities and differences is invaluable, and it makes this book an essential starting point for anyone who seeks to understand the political impact of the Great Recession in the European periphery.” – Kenneth M. Roberts, Richard J. Schwarz Professor, Cornell University, US “The richness of the empirical analysis makes this book a must-read for anyone interested in the Euro crisis. The innovative combination of politi- cal economy and social movement analysis also makes it a should-read for scholars in either fi eld.” – Lucio Baccaro, Professor of Macro-Sociology, University of Geneva, Switzerland Donatella D ella Porta • M assimiliano Andretta • Tiago Fernandes • Francis O ’Connor • E duardo Romanos • Markos Vogiatzoglou Late Neoliberalism and its Discontents in the Economic Crisis Comparing Social Movements in the European Periphery Donatella Della Porta Francis O’Connor Scuola Normale Superiore Florence University of Aarhus Pisa, Italy Aarhus, Denmark Massimiliano Andretta Eduardo Romanos University of Pisa Universidad Complutense de Madrid Pisa, Italy Madrid , Spain Tiago Fernandes Markos Vogiatzoglou Nova University Greek Ministry of State Lisbon , Portugal Athens , Greece ISBN 978-3-319-35079-0 ISBN 978-3-319-35080-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-35080-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016953882 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2 017 This work is subject to copyright. 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While, however, that work stressed the similarities among the social movements that emerged in late neoliberalism, in this volume the authors look at the ways in which the specifi cities of the fi nancial and political crises affected the countries at the European periphery. The empirical interest is in refl ecting on how social movement traditions interact with contextual characteristics in the development of anti-austerity protests in those countries in Europe that have been hardest hit by the fi nancial crisis and the austerity policies that followed it. In this endeavour, we have received much needed help of different types and from different sources. First of all, we wish to express our gratitude to our colleagues at the Centre on Social Movement Studies, fi rst at the European University Institute and then at the Scuola Normale Superiore. For long discussions (and some relaxing moments), we thank those who shared with us the Villa Pagliaiuola and then Palazzo Strozzi: among them, Kivanc Atak, Lorenzo Bosi, Lorenzo Cini, Pietro Castelli, Priska Daphi, Konstantinos Eleftheriadis, Andrea Felicetti, Joseba Fernandes, Hara Kouki, Linda Lund Pedersen, Alice Mattoni, Stefan Malthaner, Georgia Mavrodi, Chiara Milan, Emin Poljarevich, Herbert Reiter, Daniel Ritter, Salvatore Sberna, Alberto Vannucci and Lorenzo Zamponi. We have also presented various versions of various chapters at seminars and conferences in various countries: we are grateful for all the comments we have received v vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS there. The empirical research would have not been possible without the trust of the activists who spoke with us, as well as the material support of an Advanced Scholars’ Grant from the European Research Council on ‘Mobilizing for democracy’, some of whose results we publish here. Finally, we are most grateful to Sarah Tarrow, who, with her usual skills and commitment (and also good humour), has helped us to make our ideas not only more communicable but also more clear. C ONTENTS 1 Late Neoliberalism and Its Discontents: An Introduction 1 Donatella della Porta 2 Iceland’s Mobilization in the Financial Crisis 39 Markos Vogiatzoglou 3 The Presence and Absence of Protest in Austerity Ireland 6 5 Francis O’Connor 4 Turbulent Flow: Anti-Austerity Mobilization in Greece 99 Markos Vogiatzoglou 5 Late Neoliberalism and Its Indignados: Contention in Austerity Spain 1 31 Eduardo Romanos 6 Late Neoliberalism and Its Discontents: The Case of Portugal 1 69 Tiago Fernandes vii viii CONTENTS 7 Neoliberalism and Its Discontents in Italy: Protests Without Movement? 2 01 Massimiliano Andretta 8 Cyprus’ Explosion: Financial Crisis and Anti-austerity Mobilization 2 43 Markos Vogiatzoglou 9 Late Neoliberalism and Its Discontents: A Comparative Conclusion 2 61 Donatella della Porta Index 297 A A BOUT THE UTHORS Massimiliano Andretta is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Sciences of the University of Pisa, where he teaches Political Science and Political Communication. His research interests are mainly on social movement and political participation studies. Recent publica- tions include ‘Power and arguments in global justice movement settings’, in Meeting Democracy (2013, edited by D. della Porta and D. Rucht) and ‘Il Movimento 5 Stelle in Toscana: un movimento post-subculturale?’, in Gli attivisti del Movimento a 5 Stelle: dal web al territorio (2015, edited by Roberto Biorcio). Tiago Fernandes is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Nova University, Lisbon. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute, Florence, and his research interests include political and social revolution, civil society and democratization. Relevant publications include T he Liberal Wing and the End of the Portuguese Dictatorship, 1968–1974 (2006); Civil Society (2014); and ‘Rethinking Pathways to Democracy: Civil Society in Spain and Portugal, 1960s—2014’ ( Democratization , 2014). Civil Society, Democracy, and Inequality: Cross-R egional Comparisons (1970s- 2015) , co-edited with Michael Bernhard and Rui Branco, will be pub- lished in Comparative Politics in 2017. He has been a visiting researcher at Princeton University, the Juan March Foundation, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame. Currently he is writing a book manuscript on the origins of democracy and dictator- ship in France, Italy and Spain from the late nineteenth to the mid twen- tieth century. ix
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