From Financial Crisis to Social Change

Towards Alternative Horizons

Torsten Geelan, Marcos González Hernando, Peter William Walsh, Torsten Geelan, Marcos González Hernando, Peter William Walsh

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9783319705996
• eBook ISBN: 9783319706009
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice
• Index: Social Sciences

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 21 st 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 contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• Introduction
• Consecrating the Elite: Culturally Embedding the Financial Market in the City of London
• Section I. Reclaiming Universities
• Section II. Revitalising Democracy
• Section III. Recasting Politics
• Back Matter