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Street Citizens: Protest Politics and Social Movement Activism
Significant insights into the changing face of anti-austerity activism globally

THE NATURE and significance of social movements have been the subject of considerable debate in recent years, with academics comparing and contrasting “newer” and typically identity-based social movements with “older” movements rooted in the class-based politics of the left.

Are traditional class politics being superseded as some, such as French sociologist Andre Gortz, have been suggesting? Farewell to the working class and hello  to “middle-class ideological radicalism,” he has argued.

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