A global movement for real democracy? The Resonance of Anti-Austerity Protest from Spain and Greece to Occupy Wall Street

The past few years have seen an unexpected resurgence of street-level protest movements around the world, from the rise of anti-austerity protests in Spain, Greece, and Israel to the global spread of the Occupy movement. This collection is designed to offer a comparative analysis of these movements, setting them in international, socio-economic, and cross-cultural perspective in order to help us understand why movements emerge, what they do, how they spread, and how they fit into both local and worldwide historical contexts. As the most significant wave of mass protests in decades continues apace, Street Politics in the Age of Austerity: From the Indignados to Occupy offers an authoritative analysis that could not be more timely.