Understanding European Movements

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Introduction by Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Laurence Cox Part I: European Theory / European 1. European Social and Social Theory: A Richer Narrative? By Laurence Cox and Cristina Flesher Fominaya Part II: European Precursors To The Global Justice 2. The Italian Anomaly: Place and History in the Global Justice by Michal Osterweil 3. The Emergence and Development of the No Global in France: A Genealogical Approach by Isabelle Sommier And Olivier Fillieule 4. The Continuity of Transnational Protest: The Anti-Nuclear as a Precursor of the Global Justice by Emmanuel Rivat 5. Where Global Meets Local: Italian Social Centres and the Alterglobalisation by Andrea Membretti and Pierpaolo Mudu 6. Constructing a New Collective Identity for the Alterglobalisation Movement: The French Confederation Paysanne (CP) as Anti-Capitalist 'Peasant' by Edouard Morena 7. Culture Continuity: The British Anti-Roads as Precursor to the Global Justice by Cristina Flesher Fominaya Part III: Culture and Identity in the Construction of the European Movement of Movements 8. Europe as Contagious Space: Cross-Border Diffusion through Euromayday and Climate Justice by Christian Scholl 9. The Shifting Meaning of 'Autonomy' in the East European Diffusion of the Alterglobalisation Movement: Hungarian and Romanian Experiences by Agnes Gagyi 10. Collective Identity across Borders: Bridging Local and Transnational Memories in the Italian and German Global Justice by Priska Daphi 11. At Home in the Movement: Constructing an Oppositional Identity through Activist Travel across European Squats by Linus Owens, Ask Katseff, Baptiste Colin and Elisabeth Lorenzi Part IV: Understanding the New 'European Spring': Anti-Austerity, 15-M, Occupy 12. The Roots of the Saucepan Revolution in Iceland by Arni Daniel Juliusson and Magnus Sveinn Helgason 13. Collective Learning Processes within Social Movements: Some Insights into the Spanish 15M/Indignados by Eduardo Romanos 14. Think Globally, Act Locally? Symbolic Memory and Global Repertoires in the Tunisian Uprising and the Greek Anti-Austerity Mobilisations by Vittorio Sergi and Markos Vogiatzoglou 15. Fighting for a Voice: The Spanish 15-M / Indignados by Kerman Calvo. Conclusion - Anti-Austerity Protests In European and Global Context: Future Agendas for Research by Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Laurence Cox