Demanding the Impossible: the Precariat, Social Outrage and Anti-austerity Movements

• Authors: Eliza Kania

Title variants

PL

Żądanie niemożliwego: prekariat, oburzenie i ruchy społeczne przeciw polityce cięć wydatków publicznych

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article analyses major legacies of anti-austerity movements since 2011: Indignados/as and Occupy Wall Street (known also as the movements of the precariat). Based on the author’s research developed in her book: The precariat and the process of precarisation of labour - new directions of global socio-economic changes (original title: Prekariat i proces prekaryzacji pracy – nowe kierunki zmian społeczno ekonomicznych w świecie), the article summarises the most significant outcomes of these movements’ activities and demands, in four primary dimensions: identity, social awareness, organisation and politics. The author also answers the question of whether, in the course of anti-austerity movements’ activities, a new social group – the precariat – gained political subjectivity.

PL

Artykuł ten jest analizą głównych efektów działań ruchów społecznych, występujących przeciw wprowadzaniu polityki cięć wydatków publicznych (austerity policy), powstałych w 2011 roku: Indignados/as i Occupy Wall Street, zwanych także ruchami prekariatu. Na podstawie badań autorki opracowanych szerzej w książce: Prekariat i proces prekaryzacji pracy – nowe kierunki zmian społeczno ekonomicznych w świecie, w artykule podsumowano najważniejsze rezultaty działań i postulatów tych ruchów w czterech podstawowych wymiarach: tożsamości, świadomości społecznej, organizacji i w wymiarze politycznym. Autorka odpowiada również na pytanie, czy w toku tych działań nowa grupa społeczna – prekariat – uzyskała podmiotowość polityczną.

Keywords

EN

the precariat; austerity; anti-austerity movements; social movements; economic crisis of 2008; Indignados/as; Occupy Wall Street; the precariat; austerity; anti-austerity movements; social movements; economic crisis of 2008; Indignados/as; Occupy Wall Street

PL

prekariat; polityka cięć wydatków publicznych; ruchy społeczne; kryzys ekonomiczny z 2008 roku; Indignados/as; Occupy Wall Street

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Środkowoeuropejskie Studia Polityczne
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 59-76

Dates

published

2020-12-15

Contributors

author

Eliza Kania

• Brunel University London

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9635-9354

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/ssp.2020.4.3