Student Movements in Late Neoliberalism

Student Movements in Late Neoliberalism
Author: Lorenzo Cini
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2021-08-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030757544

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This book inquires into the global wave of student mobilizations that have arisen in the aftermath of the economic crisis of 2008, accounting for their historical and sociological significance. More specifically, its eleven chapters explore the role of students as political actors: their ability to build effective organizations, to make political alliances with other actors, and to win public consensus, as well as their impact on cultural, political, and policy outcomes. To do so, the volume examines case studies in England, Chile, South Africa, Quebec, and Hong Kong, covering Europe, Africa, Asia, and North and Latin America. Grouped into two major sections, the collection covers the organizational structures of student movements and their alliances and outcomes. Ultimately, this volume examines the understudied political aspects of student unrest, exploring how student mobilizations—driven by indebtedness, precariousness, the corporatization of the university, and other issues—correspond to larger processes of change with wider implications in society.

Contesting Higher Education

Contesting Higher Education
Author: Donatella Della Porta
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2021
Genre: Student movements
ISBN: 9781529208665

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This close investigation of student protests in the UK, Canada, Chile and Italy represents a comparative review of the subject. Setting the wave of demonstrations within the contexts of student activism, social issues and political movements, it casts new light on their impact on higher education and on the broader society.

Late Neoliberalism and its Discontents in the Economic Crisis

Late Neoliberalism and its Discontents in the Economic Crisis
Author: Donatella Della Porta
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2016-10-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319350803

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This book analyses protests against the Great Recession in the European periphery. While social movements have long been considered as children of affluent times - or at least of times of opening opportunities - these protests defy such expectations, developing instead in moments of diminishing opportunities in both the economic and the political realms. Can social movement studies still be useful to understanding these movements of troubled times? The authors offer a positive answer to this question, although specify the need to bridge contentious politics with other fields, including political economy. They highlight differences in the social movements’ strength and breadth and attempt to understand them in terms of three sets of dimensions: a) the specific characteristics of the socio-economic crisis and its consequences in terms of mobilization potential; b) the political reactions to it, in what we can define as political opportunities and threats; and c) the social movement cultures and structures that characterize each country. The book discusses these topics through a contextualized analysis of anti-austerity protest in the European periphery.

Student Revolt

Student Revolt
Author: Matt Myers
Publisher: Left Book Club
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: College students
ISBN: 9780745337340

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In 2010, young people across Britain took to the streets to defy a wave of government education cuts that slashed grants to college students and astronomically increased tuition fees. Education was no longer accessible for all, and students across the country refused to stand by silently. A well-publicized year of occupations and protests followed--ultimately, to little effect. The current government continues to threaten fresh budget cuts on higher education. What happened to the student revolt? And what can we learn from its failure? Matt Myers tells the story of that momentous year through the voices of the people involved: activists, students, university workers, and politicians. He weaves their testimonies together to create a narrative that starkly captures both the deep divisions of the movement and the intense energy generated by its players. With an extended introduction by Paul Mason, Student Revolt provides a lively, poignant oral history of the 2010 movement for today's activists, as well as a long-overdue reflection on its many lessons.

Student Unionism as a Means of Resisting the Neoliberalization of Universities

Student Unionism as a Means of Resisting the Neoliberalization of Universities
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2017
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN:

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Student unions are students organizing in their own self-interest, based on participatory democracy, able to be part of the decision making process on issues that affect students as a means of resisting the neoliberalization of our universities. This thesis examines what neoliberalism, or late capitalism is and the multiplicity of ways it has affected universities. Student unions challenge Neoliberalism makes college more expensive and shifts the burden of paying for it from tax payers to individuals. Austerity programs have reduced faculty income and university resources making it harder to teach, while administrators continue to collect record high salaries. Students in other countries have long histories of developing and using student unions as a way to resist neoliberal changes in their school systems. This thesis will examine how these unions were created, under what conditions, and how we can learn from their success and failures when building a student movement in the US. The last chapter will examine how previous student movements in the United States and the Labor Movement have influenced the current push for student unionism as well as considering models and options for how to build a union by students who have recently been organizing on their own campuses. The thesis concludes by sharing what has been done in California to build a student movement.

Student Protest

Student Protest
Author: Gerard J.De Groot
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2014-09-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 131788048X

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This topical new study takes a new look at the causes, course and consequences of student activism across the world since its heyday in the 1960s. It starts with analyses of some of the most familiar - and romanticised - Sixties protests themselves, in the US, France, Germany, Mexico and Great Britain. It then goes on to examine more recent, and hazardous, examples of student activism, particularly in China, Korea and Iran. Throughout, the tone is hard-headed and analytical, rather than celebratory, exploring the similarities and differences across these protests and asking what they achieved. The contributors to the volume are: Ingo Cornils; Gerard J. DeGroot; Sylvia Ellis; Sandra Hollin Flowers; Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi; Bertram M. Gordon; J. Angus Johnston; Alan R. Kluver; Donald J. Mabry; Gunter Minnerup; A.D. Moses; Frank Pieke; Julie Reuben; Barbara Tischler; Nella Van Dyke; Clare White; James L. Wood; Eric Zolov.

Fees Must Fall

Fees Must Fall
Author: Susan Booysen
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2016-10-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1868149870

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This book explores the student discontent a year after the start of the 2015 South African #FeesMustFall revolt #FeesMustFall, the student revolt that began in October 2015, was an uprising against lack of access to, and financial exclusion from, higher education in South Africa. More broadly, it radically questioned the socio-political dispensation resulting from the 1994 social pact between big business, the ruling elite and the liberation movement. The 2015 revolt links to national and international youth struggles of the recent past and is informed by black consciousness politics and social movements of the international left. Yet, its objectives are more complex than those of earlier struggles. The student movement has challenged the hierarchical, top-down leadership system of university management and it’s ‘double speak’ of professing to act in workers’ and students’ interests yet entrenching a regressive system for control and governance. University managements, while on one level amenable to change, have also co-opted students into their ranks to create co-responsibility for the highly bureaucratised university financial aid that stands in the way of their social revolution. This book maps the contours of student discontent a year after the start of the #FeesMustFall revolt. Student voices dissect colonialism, improper compromises by the founders of democratic South Africa, feminism, worker rights and meaningful education. In-depth assessments by prominent scholars reflect on the complexities of student activism, its impact on national and university governance, and offer provocative analyses of the power of the revolt.

Street Citizens

Street Citizens
Author: Marco Giugni
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2019-04-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108475906

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Explains the character of contemporary protest politics through a micro-mobilization analysis of participation in street demonstrations.

Participation and Non-Participation in Student Activism

Participation and Non-Participation in Student Activism
Author: Alexander Hensby
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2017-02-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1783486953

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There is a strong need to understand the changing dynamics of contemporary youth participation: how they engage, what repertoires are considered efficacious, and their motivations to get involved. This book uses the 2010/11 UK student protests against fees and cuts as a case study for analysing some of the key paths and barriers to political participation today. These paths and barriers – which include an individual’s family socialisation, network positioning, and group identification (and dis-identification) – help us explain why some people convert their political sympathies and interests into action, and why others do not. Drawing on an original survey dataset of students, the book shows how and why students responded in the way that they did, whether by occupying buildings, joining marches, signing petitions, or not participating at all. Considering this in the context of other student movements across the globe, the book’s combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, and its theoretical contribution provide a more holistic picture of student protest than is found in existing publications on activism

Democracies to Come

Democracies to Come
Author: Rachel Riedner
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780739111048

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Drawing upon a variety of contemporary sites and social movements, this book explores pedagogical relationships that can be the basis of political and social organizing. The authors approach pedagogy as a space of learning_not simply teaching_whose purpose is to develop an understanding of cultural networks and in so doing develop critical literacies.