Social movements in the wake of the financial crisis have shifted from the counter-summits
and world social forums of the global justice movement to the camps of the anti-austerity …

Rather than celebrating 60 years of the Treaty of Rome, 2017 looks like going down as the
year in which the European Union (EU) faced a seemingly'perfect storm'of crises (associated …

Advocates of demoicracy dismiss the proposal to transform the EU into a supranational
democracy on the grounds that there is no pan‐European demos. This article examines …

“This handbook brings together an unprecedented number of experts in the emerging field
of critical European Union studies. Their contributions collectively provide a masterful …

Critical Social Theory (CST), in its broadest sense, is a transdisciplinary approach to the
social sciences that applies critique to the status quo in order to emancipate humans and the …

The normative power approach (NPA) consists of normative, explanatory, and practical
theory in understanding European integration and crises of the European Union (EU). In …

In March 2015, the anti-austerity movement, Blockupy, protested the inauguration of the
ECB's new premises. This article explores Blockupy's construction of a sociospatial …

The research aims to identify and explain the dynamics of Blockupy radicalization. It
explores the activity of the movement during the whole cycle of anti-austerity mobilization …

The chapter analyzes the notion of space in the Euroalternativist discourses of the
Democracy in Europe Movement (DiEM25) and European Alternatives. It uses the pragmatic …

This thesis investigates processes behind the formation of new left movement parties in post-
Yugoslav space by tracing and comparing the emergence of two movement parties: Initiative …