The Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, and the Great Recession: Protest as Symptoms

Description: The Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, and the Great Recession by Nils C. Kumkar 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 bourgeoisies 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Back Cover 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 bourgeoisies 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 logics not only of these social movements, but of the current political conjuncture in the US. Author Biography Nils C. Kumkar is a postdoctoral research fellow at the SOCIUM, University of Bremen, Germany Table of Contents 1. Introduction: Protests in the Wake of the Great Recession.- 2. The Structural Crisis and the Emerging Patterns of Class Conflict.- 3. The Demographics of the Mobilized: the Core Constituency of the Protests.- 4. Theoretical and Methodological Considerations: Habitus and Habitus Reconstruction.- 5. Experiencing the Crisis: Results of the Habitus Reconstruction.- 6. Fields and Conjunctures: The Thick Opportunity Structure of the Mobilizations.- 7. The Acid Test: Reconstructing the Occupation of Urban Public Space as a Socially Determined Practice.- 8. Conclusion and Outlook. Review "The Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, and the Great Recession, is an ambitious and thought-provoking addition to this literature. … Kumkars conceptually synthetic and analytically meticulous work makes for a stimulating contribution to nonreductionist class analysis of contemporary movements. It helps us understand OWS and the Tea Party by reconstructing how ordinary citizens made sense of the nameless disruption of capitalist crisis with the instruments of class-specific moral categories, their myopias included." (Linus Westheuser, Mobilization, Vol. 24 (4), November, 2019) Review Quote "The Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, and the Great Recession, is an ambitious and thought-provoking addition to this literature. ... Kumkars conceptually synthetic and analytically meticulous work makes for a stimulating contribution to nonreductionist class analysis of contemporary movements. It helps us understand OWS and the Tea Party by reconstructing how ordinary citizens made sense of the nameless disruption of capitalist crisis with the instruments of class-specific moral categories, their myopias included." (Linus Westheuser, Mobilization, Vol. 24 (4), November, 2019) Feature Based on the interpretation of (qualitative) interviews, focus-group discussions and participant observations conducted with activists from the two movements in the years 2012-2014 Refers to available surveys and statistics on the protest movements Of interest to scholars and students working on contemporary capitalism, dynamics of class-societies, and social movements on the right and left of the political spectrum Details ISBN3319736876 Author Nils C. Kumkar Publisher Springer International Publishing AG Series Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice Year 2018 ISBN-10 3319736876 ISBN-13 9783319736877 Format Hardcover Imprint Springer International Publishing AG Subtitle Protest as Symptoms Place of Publication Cham Country of Publication Switzerland DEWEY 320.01 Edition 1st Pages 279 Publication Date 2018-04-03 Short Title The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street, Social Class and the Great Recession Language English UK Release Date 2018-04-03 Edition Description 1st ed. 2018 Alternative 9783030088361 Audience Professional & Vocational Illustrations 1 Illustrations, color; 25 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 279 p. 26 illus., 1 illus. in color. We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131029797;

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