Front matter
PROTEST AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Tiago Carvalho
Protest and Social Movements
Table of Contents
Acronyms 11 Acknowledgments 13 Introduction 17 Starting point 17 The contentious politics of neoliberalism 19 European crisis 22 The politics of austerity in the Southern European countries 25 Contesting austerity in Southern Europe 28 Contesting austerity: social movements and the left 32
A players-based approach Cycles of protest, political opportunity structures and eventful protests 44 Blurring the lines: a multi-player perspective 48 Repertoires, discourses and claim-making 52 Research design, methods and data collection 56 2 Preludes to the anti-austerity mobilisations 65 From Democratisation to the Great Recession Contentious transitions 65 Contention under consolidating democracies 67 New millennium contentious transitions 74 Anti-austerity antecedents (2005-2010) 79 Diverging paths to the anti-austerity cycle of protest 85 3 Turning points g1 Going beyond the core Setting the scene for austerity 91 Networks and players 94 Turning points in Portugal 95 Turning points in Spain 100
Going beyond the core: a summary 101
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