CoMMonS book talk: Contesting Austerity and Free Trade in the EU

Copenhagen Centre for Political Mobilisation and Social Movement Studies (CoMMonS) invites to the opening talk of the new CoMMonS Book Talk Series.

The first book talk will be done by Julia Rone author of 'Contesting Austerity and Free Trade in the EU: Protest Diffusion in Complex Media and Political Arenas', published by Routledge in 2020. The book explores the diffusion of protest against austerity and free trade agreements in the wave of contention that shook the EU following the 2008 economic crisis.

The discussants are:

• James Jasper, Professor of Sociology, City University of New York
• Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Reader in Social Politics and Media, Loughborough University

Moderator: Alice Mattoni, Associate Professor of Sociology, Bologna University, Department of Political and Social Sciences

Host: Nicole Doerr, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Director of CoMMonS, Department of Sociology

The CoMMonS Book Talks series

The CoMMonS Book Talks Series presents groundbreaking books published on social movements, collective actions, and critical thinking about contentious politics. During book talks, the authors will engage into a conversation with a small panel of discussants, including academics, activists, and practitioners working in the civil society sector.

The CoMMonS Book Talks Series aims at supporting the creation of constructive debates on the most urgent social, political, and economic problems of our times. It is developing a shared knowledge on how people respond to ongoing dynamics of change, from the grassroots, across the world.

The CoMMonS Book Talks Series is a collaborative transnational endeavor jointly organised by the Copenhagen Centre for Political Mobilisation and Social Movement Studies, UCPH, and the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna, in Italy.

Each book talk lasts about 1 hour and it is online, free, and open to everyone.