Routledge Handbook of Contemporary European Social Movements

Cristina Flesher Fominaya is Excellence 100 Reader in Social Politics and Media at Loughborough University and an internationally recognized expert in European social movement and politics. She holds an MA and a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA summa cum laude in International Relations from the University of Minnesota. She has been researching and participating in European social movements since the early 1990s, exploring the dynamics of digital media use, deliberative cultures and collective identity formation in autonomous movements. Flesher Fominaya has published and edited widely in the area of social movements, and has two books forthcoming: Social Movements in a Globalized World, 2nd ed. (Palgrave, 2019) and Democracy Reloaded: Inside Spain’s Political Laboratory from 15-M to Podemos (Oxford University Press, 2020). Ramón A. Feenstra is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Sociology at the Universitat Jaume I of Castellón (Spain). He graduated in Advertising and Public Relations at the same university (2005) and in History at UNED (Open University of Spain) (2013). In 2010, he became a Doctor of Moral Philosophy at the Universitat Jaume I. The fields he writes about are linked primarily to the democracy theory and communication ethics. He has published the following books: Refiguring Democracy: The Spanish Political Laboratory (co-authored with Simon Tormey, Andreu Casero and John Keane, Routledge 2017), Ética de la publicidad: Retos en la era digital (Dykinson, 2014) and Democracia monitorizad en la era de la nueva galaxia mediática (Icaria, 2012). He has published articles in journals such as The International Journal of Press Politics, Journal of Business Ethics, Media International Australia, Voluntas, The Journal of Civil Society, Revista del Clad Reforma y Democracia and Policy Studies.

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Introduction: Contemporary European social movements: democracy, crisis and contestation



Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Ramón Feenstra



PART 1



Visions of Europe



1 Visions of a good society: European social movements in the age of ideologies and beyond



Simon Tormey



2 How many ‘Europes’? Left-wing and right-wing social movements and their visions of Europe



Manuela Caiani and Manès Weisskircher



3 From ‘Fortress Europe’ to ‘Refugees Welcome’: social movements and the political imaginary on European borders



Pierre Monforte



4 Fields of contentious politics: policies and discourse over ‘Islam vs.Christianity’



Manlio Cinalli



PART 2



Contemporary models of democracy



5 Democratic models in Europe



Donatella della Porta



6 Deliberative democracy: an upgrade proposal



Domingo García-Marzá



7 Democracy and sortition: arguments in favor of randomness



Jorge Costa Delgado and José Luis Moreno Pestaña



8 Hatred and democracy? Ernesto Laclau and populism in Europe



Clare Woodford



PART 3



Historical evolution of major European movements



9 Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed: from labor movements to anti-austerity protests



Marco Giugni and Maria Grasso



10 The global justice movement in Europe



Priska Daphi



11 European squatters’ movements and the right to the city



Miguel A. Martínez



12 New social movements and everyday life: a dialogue with Alberto Melucci



John Keane



PART 4



Feminism and sexualities



13 Feminist mobilizations within organized religions in Western Europe



Celia Valiente



14 My body, my rules? Self-determination and feminist collective action in Southern Europe



Ana Cristina Santos and Mara Pieri



15 Neither new nor utopian (and yet worthwhile): queer and feminist genealogies, conflicts and contributions inside Spain’s 15-M movement



Gracia Trujillo Barbadillo



PART 5



Movement diffusion within and beyond Europe



16 Brokerage and the diffusion of social movements in the digital era



Eduardo Romanos



17 Social movement diffusion in Eastern Europe



Ondřej Císař



18 Crossing the ocean: the influence of Bolivia’s MAS movement on Spain’s Podemos party



Esther del Campo, Jorge Resina and Yanina Welp



PART 6



Anti-austerity movements



19 Anti-austerity movements in Europe



Josep Lobera



20 Alternative forms of resilience and the 2007 crisis in Europe



Maria Paschou and Maria Kousis



21 ‘We won’t pay for the crisis’: student movements in European anti-austerity protest



Lorenzo Zamponi



PART 7



Technopolitical and media movements



22 The technopolitical frameworks of contemporary social movements: the European case



Igor Sádaba Rodríguez



23 Alternative media and social movements in Europe’s digital landscape



Andreu Casero-Ripollés



PART 8



Movements, parties and movement parties



24 Movement parties: a new