Overview
- Provides an innovative analysis of the evolution of movement politics from activism for social change of the New Left to modern day mobilisations
- Uses a wide variety of case studies from the 1960s to the present day
- Includes original interviews with Occupy protesters
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
Yet the author suggests that such changes, known as ‘lifestyle activism’, could be understood in a different way, one characterised by suspiciousness towards the belief that human action guided by reason can lead society towards a future that will be better and more affluent. Using a range of case studies from the 1960's to the present day anti-austerity movement, Sotirakopoulos argues that the New Left and its ideological heirs could be understood not so much as a continuation, but as an inversion from the Old Left and, most importantly, from humanistic visions of modernity.
The book will therefore be ideal reading for students and researchers of political sociology, radical politics, modern political ideologies, contentious politics and political theory and to scholars of new social movements and the New Left.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Nikos Sotirakopoulos is lecturer in Sociology at the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Rise of Lifestyle Activism
Book Subtitle: From New Left to Occupy
Authors: Nikos Sotirakopoulos
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55103-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55102-3Published: 24 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71563-3Published: 16 March 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55103-0Published: 13 October 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 184
Topics: Political Communication, Political Theory, Political Sociology, Social Structure, Social Inequality