European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact. Yet they have rarely been taken on their own terms in the English-language literature, considered rather as counterpoints to the US experience. This has been exacerbated by the failure of Anglophone social movement theorists to pay attention to the substantial literatures in languages such as French, German, Spanish or Italian and by the increasing global dominance of English in the production of news and other forms of media.
This book sets out to take the European social movement experience seriously on its own terms, including:
- the European tradition of social movement theorising particularly in its attempt to understand movement development from the 1960s onwards
- the extent to which European movements between 1968 and 1999 became precursors for the contemporary anti-globalisation movement
- the construction of the anti-capitalist "movement of movements" within the European setting
- the new anti-austerity protests in Iceland, Greece, Spain (15-M/Indignados), and elsewhere.
This book offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary perspective on the key European social movements in the past forty years. It will be of interest for students and scholars of politics and international relations, sociology, history, European studies and social theory.
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
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.
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