Due to the high levels of interest, Routledge have given Understanding European Movements an accelerated paperback release, just 6 months after the hardback edition.
This has happened faster than reviews could be published: the book has sold widely on word of mouth alone and the importance of its subject matter.
European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact. Today, six years into a new cycle of movements which have shaken Europe from Iceland to Greece and from Spain to the Ukraine, the need for an adequate understanding of social movements in Europe is greater than ever: journalistic anecdotes, the attention span of the news cycle and the half-understandings of pundits unable to speak the languages of the countries they are writing about are no substitute for real research.
Understanding European movements is the first publication of the Council for European Studies' social movements research network, co-founded by the Department's Marie Curie fellow Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Laurence Cox. It draws on the best ethnographic and historical research to offer a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of the key dimensions of European movements over the last forty years, exploring the European tradition of social movement theorising, the historical continuities and breaks between different waves of movements in Europe, the construction of social movements on a European scale and the analysis of contemporary anti-austerity movements, with cases from Italy, France, Germany, Britain, Spain, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Iceland and transnational organising.
The book is edited by Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Laurence Cox. Dr. Cristina Flesher Fominaya is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen, UK and Senior Marie Curie Fellow at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. Dr. Laurence Cox is a Lecturer in Sociology at Maynooth University.
Details:
Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Laurence Cox (eds.), Understanding European movements: new social movements, global justice struggles, anti-austerity protest, Routledge 2013, 268 pp.
Paperback ISBN 978-1-13-802546-2
E-books and inspection copies also available