Resistance in the Age of Austerity

Nationalism, the Failure of the Left and the Return of God

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19898541
AutoresOwen Worth (0000-0002-2407-3947, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Fecha de publicación2013-01-01
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaResistance in the Age of Austerity (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialFernwood Publishing (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9781350222298
OpenAlexW4251661065
Open LibraryOL31057300M
ISBN9781350222298
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas37

In November 1999 the first protests associated with the ‘anti-globalisation movement’ took place in Seattle, and came to be seen as the starting point for globalised resistance to neoliberal capitalism. Despite initial optimism, the following years have seen little progress in formulating a coherent alternative to neoliberalism, a failure that has become particularly poignant in the aftermath of the recent credit crisis. Now, the neoliberal mandate that appeared to be in ‘crisis’ in just 2008 has reinvented itself through the guise of a new ‘era of austerity’. In this timely book, Worth assesses the growing diversity of resistance to neoliberalism – progressive, nationalist and religious – and argues that, troublingly, the more reactionary alternatives to globalisation currently provide just as coherent a base for building opposition as those associated with the traditional ‘left-wing’ anti-globalisation movements. From the shortcomings of the Occupy movement to the rise of Radical Islam, the re-emergence

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