The Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, and the Great Recession - Couverture rigide

Kumkar, Nils C.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3319736876 ISBN 13 : 9783319736877

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Synopsis

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 political developments like the successful presidential campaign of Donald Trump. The book explains the Great Recession as an acute phase of the structural crisis of the finance-dominated accumulation regime, identifies the social classes from which the core-participants of the respective protests recruited themselves and the socioeconomic developments to which they were exposed in the years leading up to the protests, and interprets interviews and group discussions conducted with activists to reconstruct the habitus that structured both their experience of the crisis and their resonance with the respective protest practices. It thereby provides an encompassing understanding of the social logicsnot only of these social movements, but of the current political conjuncture in the US.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nils C. Kumkar is a postdoctoral research fellow at the SOCIUM, University of Bremen, Germany

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3319736876
• ISBN 13: 9783319736877
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 292
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