This edited collection critically engages with a range of contemporary issues in the aftermath of the North Atlantic financial crisis that began in 2007. From challenging the erosion of academic authority to the myth that parliamentary democracy is not worth engaging with, it addresses three interrelated questions facing young people today: how to reclaim our universities, how to revitalise our democracy and how to recast politics in the 21st century.
This book emphasises the crucial importance of generational experience as a wellspring for progressive social change. For it is the young generations who have come of age in a world marred by crises that are at the forefront of challenging the status quo.
With insight into new social movements and protests in the UK, Canada, Greece and Ukraine, this stimulating collection of works will be invaluable for those teaching, studying and campaigning for alternatives. It will also be of relevance to scholars in social movement studies, the sociology and anthropology of economic life, the sociology of education, social and political theory, and political sociology.
Table of Content
1. Introduction; Torsten Geelan, Marcos González Hernando, and Peter William Walsh.- 2. Consecrating the Elite: Culturally Embedding the Financial Market in the City of London; Alex Simpson .- Section 1: Reclaiming Universities .- 3. The Never-Ending Crisis in British Higher Education; Mike Finn .- 4. The Coming Crisis of Academic Authority; Eric Royal Lybeck .- 5. Consuming Education; Alice Pearson .- Section 2: Revitalising Democracy .- 6. Local Maidan Across Ukraine: Democratic Aspirations in the Revolution of Dignity; Olga Zelinska .- 7. Opportunity in Crisis: Alternative Media and Subaltern Resistance; Benjamin Anderson .-8. The Battle of Barton Moss; Steven Speed .- Section 3: Recasting Politics .- 9. The Limits of Populism: Mills, Marcuse and 1960s Radicalism and Occupy; Mike O’Donnell .- 10. The Myth of Bourgeois Democracy; Andreas Møller Mulvad and Rune Møller Stahl .- 11. Seeing like a PIG: The Crisis in Greece as a tale of Hope and Disillusionment; Rosa Vasilaki .- 12.Unleashing the Emancipatory Power of the ‘Spirit of Free Communal Service’: G.D.H. Cole, Dialogical Coordination and Social Change; Charles Masquelier .- 13. Afterword; Torsten Geelan, Marcos González Hernando, and Peter William Walsh.
About the author
Torsten Geelan holds a Ph D and MPhil in Sociology from the University of Cambridge, and a Bachelor in Economics and Social Science from the University of Manchester Marcos González Hernando is Affiliated Researcher at the University of Cambridge and Principal Researcher at FEPS-Think tank for Action on Social Change (TASC)
Peter William Walsh is Affiliated Researcher in the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge
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