The Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, and the Great Recession / Nils C. Kumkar.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Critical political theory and radical practice.
Main Author:	Kumkar, Nils C. (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Series:	Critical political theory and radical practice.
Subjects:	Tea Party movement > United States. Occupy movement > New York (State) > New York. Capitalism > United States > History > 21st century. Social movements > United States > History > 21st century. United States > Politics and government > 21st century. United States > Economic conditions > 21st century. Capitalism. Economic history. Occupy movement. Politics and government. Social movements. Tea Party movement. New York (State) > New York. United States. 2000-2099 History.
Genre:	History.
Physical Description:	xiii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Format:	Book

Contents:

Introduction. Protests in the wake of the Great Recession
The structural crisis and the emerging patterns of class conflict
The demographics of the mobilized: the core constituency of the protests
Theoretical and methodological considerations: habitus and habitus reconstruction
Experiencing the crisis: results of the habitus reconstruction
Fields and conjunctures: the thick opportunity structure of the mobilizations
The acid test: reconstructing the occupation of urban public space as a socially determined practice
Conclusion and outlook.