Contesting Austerity

Social Movements and the Left in Portugal and Spain (2008-2015)
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-94-6372-284-1
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 240 mm x 162 mm, Gewicht: 494 g

Reihe: Protest and Social Movements

Contesting Austerity compares the contentious responses to austerity in Portugal and Spain between 2008 and 2015. While in Spain a sustained wave of mobilisation lasted for three years and led to a transformation of the party system, in Portugal social movements mobilised only in specific instances, trade unions dominated protest and institutional change was limited. Contesting Austerity shows that trajectories and outcomes in these countries are linked to the nature and configurations of the players in the mobilisation process.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carvalho, Tiago

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acronyms

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Starting point

The contentious politics of neoliberalism

European crisis

The politics of austerity in the Southern European countries

Contesting austerity in Southern Europe

Contesting austerity: social movements and the left

1 Cycles, arenas and claims: A players-based approach

Cycles of protest, political opportunity structures and eventful protests

Blurring the lines: a multi-player perspective

Repertoires, discourses and claim-making

Research design, methods and data collection

2 Preludes to the anti-austerity mobilisations: From Democratisation to the Great Recession

Contentious transitions

Contention under consolidating democracies

New millennium contentious transitions

Anti-austerity antecedents (2005-2010)

Diverging paths to the anti-austerity cycle of protest

3 Turning points: Going beyond the core

Setting the scene for austerity

Networks and players

Turning points in Portugal

Turning points in Spain

Going beyond the core: a summary

Between democracy, precarity and austerity: movement culture and frames

Networks of resistance

Opening the way forward

4 Enduring austerity: From representation to redistribution

Enduring austerity

Players and claim-making between 2009-2015

Overlapping dynamics of contention in Spain

Mareas as a hybrid: between social movements and trade unions

Housing, civil disobedience and relation with Institutions

Recentralisation, platforms and protest events: post-15M dynamics

Labour from below

From movement void to strategic alliance building in Portugal

Trade unions and movement void

Constitutional break and the QSLT – Alliance building and exclusions

Claim-making and repertoires in the QSLT

Demobilisation

A plural arena

5 From the streets to institutions: Reconfiguration of the left after the anti-austerity mobilisations

Dynamics of demobilisation

Reshaping the left: between party elites and social movements

Breaking hegemony: Podemos and the party-constellation

Municipal projects: the case of Madrid

Podemos, IU and the recomposition of the left

The road to the general elections and the party-constellation

Resilience and the recomposition of the left in Portugal

Left Bloc from 2011 to 2015: crisis, internal dynamics and reshaping of the Left in Portugal

From Congresso Democratico das Alternativas to a recomposition of the left

Political outcomes and post-2015 alliances

Conclusion

Appendices

Appendix I Chronology

Appendix II Interviews

Appendix III Protest Event Analysis Codebook

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Carvalho, Tiago
Tiago Carvalho holds a PhD in Sociology (University of Cambridge). He is a researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (University Institute of Lisbon), and a member of Centre on Social Movement Studies.