A.8.a. General Titles

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Mason, Paul Why Its Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions, London, Verso, 2012 , pp. 237

Wide-ranging exploration, by BBC economics journalist, of campaigns round the world since 2008, including the Arab uprisings of 2011, but mainly focused on resistance to economic policies and including accounts of protest in UK, USA and Greece. Discusses economic and social causes of unrest and role of new communications.
Fillmore-Patrick, Hannah The Iceland Experiment (2009-2013): A Participatory Approach to Constitutional Reform, issue New Series 02, 2013 , pp. -20

Examines the financial collapse and the popular protests in ‘the Kitchenware Revolution’ (which included banging pots and pans), which led to widespread popular involvement in changing the constitution to prevent a future financial collapse and betrayal of trust.
Hilary, John The Poverty of Capitalism: Economic Meltdown and the Struggle for What Comes Next, London, Pluto Press, 2013 , pp. 240

Analysis by War on Want director of how neoliberal elite is using the 2008 crisis to entrench its own power and impose neoliberal policies on Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland. The book ends with a sketch of the growing worldwide struggle against neoliberalism and suggesting how alternatives might be strengthened.
Hosseini, Sayed Alternative Globalizations: An Integrative Approach to Studying Dissident Knowledge in the Global Justice Movement, London and New York, Routledge, 2010 , pp. 288

Discusses whether growing popular opposition to neoliberalism, especially since 2008, can develop coherent alternative ideologies.
Jackson, Ross Occupy World Street: A Global Roadmap of Radical Economic and Political Reform, Vermont VT, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012 , pp. 336

The chair of the Danish-based Gaia Trust advocates return to smaller decentralised communities with a more sustainable life style.
Mirowski, Philip Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown, London, Verso, 2014 , pp. 384

Economic historian’s caustic analysis of self-validating nature of neoliberal thought among economists and politicians and suggested bases for an alternative analysis of economic crisis and future possibilities.
Sitrin, Marina; Azzellini, Dario They Can’t Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy, London, Verso, 2014 , pp. 192

Combines history of direct democracy from classical Greece to the Indignados, drawing on interviews with activists in contemporary movements, including Occupy, that are based on forms of participatory democracy and reject liberal parliamentary democracy.

Websites recommended

Alternative Globalizations: An Integrative Approach to Studying Dissident Knowledge in the Global Justice Movement London and New York Routledge, 2010

Discusses whether growing popular opposition to neoliberalism, especially since 2008, can develop coherent alternative ideologies.
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown London Verso, 2014

Economic historian’s caustic analysis of self-validating nature of neoliberal thought among economists and politicians and suggested bases for an alternative analysis of economic crisis and future possibilities.
Occupy World Street: A Global Roadmap of Radical Economic and Political Reform Vermont VT Chelsea Green Publishing, 2012

The chair of the Danish-based Gaia Trust advocates return to smaller decentralised communities with a more sustainable life style.
The Iceland Experiment (2009-2013): A Participatory Approach to Constitutional Reform (http://dpc.djikic.com/uimages/pdf/dpc%20policy%20note%202_%20the%20iceland%20exp...) , 2013

Examines the financial collapse and the popular protests in ‘the Kitchenware Revolution’ (which included banging pots and pans), which led to widespread popular involvement in changing the constitution to prevent a future financial collapse and betrayal of trust.
The Poverty of Capitalism: Economic Meltdown and the Struggle for What Comes Next London Pluto Press, 2013

Analysis by War on Want director of how neoliberal elite is using the 2008 crisis to entrench its own power and impose neoliberal policies on Greece, Spain, Portugal and Ireland. The book ends with a sketch of the growing worldwide struggle against neoliberalism and suggesting how alternatives might be strengthened.
They Can’t Represent Us! Reinventing Democracy from Greece to Occupy London Verso, 2014

Combines history of direct democracy from classical Greece to the Indignados, drawing on interviews with activists in contemporary movements, including Occupy, that are based on forms of participatory democracy and reject liberal parliamentary democracy.
Why Its Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions London Verso, 2012

Wide-ranging exploration, by BBC economics journalist, of campaigns round the world since 2008, including the Arab uprisings of 2011, but mainly focused on resistance to economic policies and including accounts of protest in UK, USA and Greece. Discusses economic and social causes of unrest and role of new communications.