Understanding European movements [electronic resource] : new social movements, global justice struggles, anti-austerity protest / edited by Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Laurence Cox.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / by Laurence Cox and Cristina Flesher Fominaya -- European theory / European Movements -- European social movements and social theory : a richer narrative? / By Laurence Cox and Cristina Flesher Fominaya -- European precursors to the global justice movement -- The italian anomaly : place and history in the global justice movement / by Michal Osterweil -- The emergence and development of the no global movement in France : a genealogical approach / by Isabelle Sommier And Olivier Fillieule -- The continuity of transnational protest : the anti-nuclear movement as a precursor of the global justice movement / by Emmanuel Rivat -- Where global meets local : Italian social centres and the alterglobalisation movement / by Andrea Membretti and Pierpaolo Mudu -- Constructing a new collective identity for the alterglobalisation movement : the French Confédération Paysanne (CP) as anti-capitalist 'peasant' movement / by Edouard Morena -- Movement culture continuity : the British anti-roads movement as precursor to the global justice movement / by Cristina Flesher Fominaya -- Culture and identity in the construction of the European "movement of movements" -- Europe as contagious space : cross-border diffusion through euromayday and climate justice movements / by Christian Scholl -- The shifting meaning of "autonomy" in the East European diffusion of the alterglobalisation movement : Hungarian and Romanian experiences / by Agnes Gagyi -- Collective identity across borders : bridging local and transnational memories in the Italian and German global justice movements / by Priska Daphi -- 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 -- Understanding the new "European spring" : anti-austerity, 15-M, occupy -- The roots of the saucepan revolution in Iceland / by Árni Daníel Júlíusson and Magnús Sveinn Helgason -- Collective learning processes within social movements : some insights into the Spanish 15m/indignados movement / by Eduardo Romanos -- 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 -- 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 Laurence Cox and Cristina Flesher Fominaya.

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