Social Movements in Times of Austerity

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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1: The Re-emergence of a Class Cleavage? Social Movements in Times of Austerity -- Bringing capitalism back into protest analysis? -- Social movements and political cleavages -- The research -- This volume -- 2: Social Structure: Old Working Class, New Precariat, or Yet Something Different? -- Dynamics of capitalism -- Social movements and social structures -- World-systems theory and anti-systemic movements -- Multitudes against the empire? -- Bridging political economy and social movement studies -- Modes of production and social cleavages in social movement studies -- Anti-austerity protest in the periphery -- The social basis of the (European) Global Justice Movement -- The social bases of movements in the crisis of neoliberalism -- The sociography of the camps -- The social basis of protest in Europe -- Conclusion -- 3: Identification Processes: Class and Culture -- Immoral (neo)liberalism: the challenge -- The cultural dimension: which identity for which movement? -- Liquid modernity and fragmented societies? -- Populist logic as search for the people -- The new spirit of capitalism and its critics -- Identity in social movement studies -- Morality and justice frames in anti-austerity protests in the periphery -- Anti-neoliberalism and tolerant identities in the Global Justice Movement -- Morality framing in anti-austerity movements -- Indignation and occupation -- Inclusive identities in European protests -- Conclusion -- 4: Lo Llaman Democracia Y No Lo Es: A Crisis of Political Responsibility -- Lack of responsibility in (late) neoliberalism -- Crisis of legitimacy in neoliberalism: the abdication of responsibility by representative institutions and its discontent -- Legitimacy crisis and institutional trust -- Political opportunities in social movement studies

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Social movements in times of austerity: bringing capitalism back into protest analysis

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