The Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, and the Great Recession

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Kumkar, Nils C. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice
• Θέματα: Political theory.; United States-Politics and government.; Political sociology.; Political Theory.; US Politics.; Political Sociology.

This book analyzes the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street as symptoms of the structural crisis of US capitalism and its class structure. It shows that the protests have to be understood as rooted in the petty bourgeoisie's lived experience of crisis, which also plays a crucial role in current pol...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Protests in the Wake of the Great Recession
• 2. The Structural Crisis and the Emerging Patterns of Class Conflict
• 3. The Demographics of the Mobilized: the Core Constituency of the Protests
• 4. Theoretical and Methodological Considerations: Habitus and Habitus Reconstruction
• 5. Experiencing the Crisis: Results of the Habitus Reconstruction
• 6. Fields and Conjunctures: The Thick Opportunity Structure of the Mobilizations
• 7. The Acid Test: Reconstructing the Occupation of Urban Public Space as a Socially Determined Practice
• 8. Conclusion and Outlook.