Editors:
- Includes a foreword from Göran Therborn, one of Europe’s most prominent social scientists, on the current socio-economic and political landscape
- Provides insight into cases of new social movements and protests in Ukraine, Greece, Portugal, Canada, and the UK
- Focuses on universities, social movements, and political theory as important sources for progressive social change
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Reclaiming Universities
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Recasting Politics
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Back Matter
About this book
This edited collection critically engages with a range of contemporary issues in the aftermath of the North Atlantic financial crisis that began in 2007. From challenging the erosion of academic authority to the myth that parliamentary democracy is not worth engaging with, it addresses three interrelated questions facing young people today: how to reclaim our universities, how to revitalise our democracy and how to recast politics in the 21st century.
This book emphasises the crucial importance of generational experience as a wellspring for progressive social change. For it is the young generations who have come of age in a world marred by crises that are at the forefront of challenging the status quo.
With insight into new social movements and protests in the UK, Canada, Greece and Ukraine, this stimulating collection of works will be invaluable for those teaching, studying and campaigning for alternatives. It will also be of relevance to scholars in social movement studies, the sociology and anthropology of economic life, the sociology of education, social and political theory, and political sociology.
Keywords
- Sociology of Financial Crisis
- Financial Crisis and Social Change
- Social Consequences of the 2008 North-Atlantic Financial Crisis
- Generational Experience and the Millenial
- Coming Crisis of Academic Authority
- Neoliberal University
- Revolution of Dignity
- Limits of Populism
- Radicalism and Occupy Movement
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Torsten Geelan, Marcos González Hernando, Peter William Walsh
About the editors
Torsten Geelan holds a PhD and MPhil in Sociology from the University of Cambridge, and a Bachelor in Economics and Social Science from the University of Manchester
Marcos González Hernando is Affiliated Researcher at the University of Cambridge and Principal Researcher at FEPS-Think tank for Action on Social Change (TASC)
Peter William Walsh is Affiliated Researcher in the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: From Financial Crisis to Social Change
Book Subtitle: Towards Alternative Horizons
Editors: Torsten Geelan, Marcos González Hernando, Peter William Walsh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70600-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70599-6Published: 29 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09972-5Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70600-9Published: 16 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 285
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Education, Sociological Theory