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Record Nr.

UNINA9910162832903321

Autore

Albrecht Eduardo Zachary

Titolo

Alter-globalization in Southern Europe : Anatomy of a Social Movement / / by Eduardo Zachary Albrecht

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9781137597588

1137597585

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 166 p. 7 illus.)

Disciplina

306.2

Soggetti

Political sociology

Globalization

Ethnology - Europe

Culture

Ethnology

Sociology

Political Sociology

European Culture

Ethnography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Protest and Power -- Alter-globalization in Southern Europe -- Lifestyle Stereotypes -- Music and Politics, a Utopian Narrative -- A Ternary Model of Political Resistance: Subject, Action, and Object.

Sommario/riassunto

Considering the rise of global political instability and subsequent importance of new social movements, this cutting edge book examines the relationship between the alter-globalization movement and political power in Italy, Spain, and Greece. It argues that not only is the movement anti-political, but that it operates within an apolitical social milieu, as a ritualized holding pattern for middle class youths that find themselves uncomfortably placed between a receding state structure on the one hand, and a rising informal economy on the other. Its ritual liminality allows adherents to act revolutionary while assuring that their middle class privileges remain intact. The author considers the social



ramifications of the movement at a time when Europe finds itself at a political and economic crossroads, and offers specific and timely case studies from the three southern European countries.