{"id":531,"date":"2014-03-21T20:35:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T20:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canterburypolitics.wordpress.com\/?p=531"},"modified":"2018-09-18T14:31:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T13:31:46","slug":"the-eurocrisis-where-the-worlds-of-social-movement-studies-and-european-political-economy-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/politics\/2014\/03\/21\/the-eurocrisis-where-the-worlds-of-social-movement-studies-and-european-political-economy-collide\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eurocrisis: where the world’s of social movement studies and European political economy collide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Attending the Council for European Studies annual conference<\/a> in Washington DC was a wonderful opportunity for scholars to directly engage with the Eurocrisis. \u00a0EU and European academics have been, rightly, criticised for failing to analyse and understand the economic and financial crisis but the paper in the conference were very heavily focused on the Eurocrisis. \u00a0The two common themes that emerged for me was the acknowledgement of both the Political Economy and Social Movement sections that they had to engage with the literature of the other. \u00a0Unfortunately this realization was reached separately in idiosyncratic panels but the sentiment was extremely pleasing to hear.<\/p>\n

For the papers presented on European political economy the general conclusions were one of the need for more and different policies to be pursued at the EU level. \u00a0To pursue these policies a democratic mandate is required and the assembled superstar European political economists<\/a> seemed altogether bemused that the Eurocrisis had failed to cause the mobilzation of a pan-EU political movement. \u00a0Had they come to the panels on social movements they would have realised that there had been much discussion<\/a> of how the Eurocrisis was impacting on movement mobilization across Europe. \u00a0Social movement scholars who presented on this topic realised that they needed to grasp the fundamentals of the Eurocrisis – austerity, neo-liberal economic policies, the European Central Bank, sovereign debt – if they were to understand why certain citizens had and had not mobilized.<\/p>\n

My paper<\/a>\u00a0explored how the specific nature of the Eurocrisis in each of the most affected states – Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain – was in turn causing differentiated protest in each of the states. \u00a0A conclusion I reached was that the 2014 EP elections would see a significant rise in Euroscepticis – from populists to the radical left and right. \u00a0A coherent political alternative is not going to emerge from the Eurocrisis just yet, but a strong wave of protest is only just beginning to hit into the European mainstream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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