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New book – Please consider purchasing for your University Library: The Mobilization and Demobilization of Middle-Class Revolt: Comparative Insights from Argentina Author: Daniel Ozarow (Middlesex University, London and Co-Chair of Argentina Research Network) Publisher: Routledge Website: https://www.routledge.com/The-Mobilization-and-Demobilization-of-Middle-Class-Revolt-Comparative/Ozarow/p/book/9780815358183 Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/MiddleClassMobilization/ Adopting Argentina’s popular uprisings against neoliberalism including the 2001-02 rebellion and subsequent mass protests as a case study, The Mobilization and Demobilization of Middle-Class Revolt analyzes two decades of longitudinal research (1995-2018), including World Bank and Latinobarómeter household survey data, along with participant interviews, to explore why non-politically active middle-class citizens engage in radical protest movements, and why they eventually demobilize. In particular it asks, how do they become politicized and resist economic and political crises, along with their own hardship? Theoretically informed by Gramsci’s notions of hegemony, ideology and class consciousness, Ozarow posits that to affect profound and lasting social change, multi-sectoral alliances and sustainable mobilizing vehicles are required to maintain radical progressive movements beyond periods of crisis. With the Argentinian revolt understood to be the ideological forbearer to the autonomist-inspired uprisings which later emerged, comparisons are drawn with experiences in the USA, Spain, Greece UK, Iceland and the Middle East, as well as 1990s contexts in South Africa and Russia. Such a comparative analysis helps understand how contextual factors shape distinctive struggling middle-class citizen responses to external shocks. This book will be of immense value to students, activists and theorists of social change in North America, in Europe and globally. Reviews by Dr Maristella Svampa Argentine Researcher at CONICET, writer and sociologist, La Plata National University and Paul Mason : Author of Postcapitalism: A Guide to our Future and former Economics Editor, Channel 4 News -- Dr. Daniel Ozarow Senior Lecturer (Research & Teaching) in HRM Department of Management, Leadership & Organisations. Deputy Head - Latin American Studies Research Group Middlesex University Business School, The Burroughs, London, NW4 4BT, UK T: +44 (0) 208 411 3535 W: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/ozarow-daniel Convenor - Argentina Research Network UK http://argentinaresearchnetwork.wordpress.com/ Chair - Jubilee Debt Campaign, Academic Advisory Network http://jubileedebt.org.uk/about/academic-advisory-network ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the PILAS list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=PILAS&A=1