Resisting the Backlash

<p>Drawing interview material together with extensive data from the authors’ original social movement database this book examines the development of social movements in resistance to perceived political regression and a growing right-wing backlash. With a focus on Italy and the reaction to increasing inequalities and welfare state retrenchment policies it examines opposition to the government and state authorities on a number of issues. Triangulating different types of data it sheds light on the ability of citizens to organise in the streets and addresses crucial matters in social movement research including the significance to political mobilization of grievances class gender and generational differences as well as considering the network dynamics of micro-mobilization visions of Europe and the role of interactions with major political institutions. As such it will appeal to scholars of sociology and politics with interests in social movements and political mobilization.</p>