David J. Bailey

Protest Movements and Parties of the Left (eBook, ePUB)

Affirming Disruption

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How successful are social movements and left parties at achieving social and political change? How, if at all, can movements and parties work together to challenge existing hierarchies? Is the political left witnessing a revival in contemporary politics?

This book highlights some of the key achievements of left parties and protest movements in their goal of challenging different types of inequality - and considers the ways in which their challenge to authority and power could be intensified. It combines new theoretical ideas with rich empirical detail on the debates and concrete activities undertaken by left parties and protest movements over a broad historical period, from the early European labour movement to the recent anti-austerity global protests. The book will offer unique insight into the broad history and theory of emancipatory politics; as well as making an important contribution to ongoing debates between left-leaning academics, researchers and activists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783486779
• Artikelnr.: 49994335

Autorenporträt

David J. Bailey is lecturer in political science at the University of Birmingham. His first book, The Political Economy of European Social Democracy: a critical realist approach, was published in 2009. Since then he has published two co-edited books, European Social Democracy During the Global Economic Crisis: Renovation or Resignation? (2014) and The European Union and Global Governance: A Handbook (2011). He has also published articles in New Political Economy, Socio-Economic Review, Journal of Common Market Studies, Comparative European Politics, British Politics, Journal of European Social Policy, and the Journal of European Public Policy. He is the reviews editor of Comparative European Politics and of Capital and Class.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: From radical dilemmas to affirming disruption
Part I: Labour Movement Struggles
1. The Russian revolution and 'All Power to the Bolsheviks'
2. Anarchists and the Spanish Civil War: 'Fighting Against All Sides At Once'
3. The Parliamentary Route to Socialism: Reformism, Revisionism and the 'Third Way'
Part II: Beyond Class: Pluralising Social Struggle?
4. Civil Rights Movement: Disrupting Racism in the 'Free World'
5. 1968: The emergence of a 'New Left'
6. We're starting our own movement: feminist challenges to left patriarchy
7. Different struggle, same dilemmas? Environmentalism, the Fundis-Realos divide and the move towards Green expertise
Part III: Contemporary Struggles
8. Contention when 'there is no alternative': anti
alter-globalization
9. Contemporary protest movements: anti-austerity and pragmatic prefiguration
10. Contemporary left parties: the turn of a new populist left?
Conclusions