This book analyses the popular resistances to austerity politics in Europe following the global financial crisis of 2008-9. It places anti-austerity mobilisations in perspective, comparing the wave of strikes and occupations by citizens and movements to the global justice movement. It was published as a special issue of Social Movement Studies.

Cristina Flesher Fominaya is an Editor of Social Movement Studies, a Founding Editor of Interface Journal, and author of Social Movements and Globalization (Palgrave). She is Reader in Social Politics and Media at Loughborough University, UK. She publishes widely on European and global social movements, hybrid parties, digital politics and media, collective identity, democracy, autonomy, and political participation.

Graeme Hayes is Reader in Political Sociology at Aston University, UK, and an Editor of Social Movement Studies. His work focuses on the tactics and ideas of social movements, and their inter-relationship with the state. He is the author of two monographs and co-editor of three collections, most recently Occupy! A Global Movement. Hope, Tactics and Challenges (Routledge, 2014).

Introduction 1. European anti-austerity and pro-democracy protests in the wake of the global financial crisis 2. Regimes of austerity 3. The indignant citizen: anti-austerity movements in Southern Europe and the anti-oligarchic reclaiming of citizenship 4. The children of the Carnation Revolution? Connections between Portugal's anti-austerity movement and the revolutionary period 1974/1975 5. Dissenting youth: how student and youth struggles helped shape anti-austerity mobilisations in Southern Europe 6. Polanyi, political-economic opportunity structure and protest: capitalism and contention in the post-communist Czech Republic 7. Competing modes of coordination in the Greek anti-austerity campaign, 2010-2012 8. Life after the squares: reflections on the consequences of the Occupy movements