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      Resisting neoliberalism? Movements against austerity and for democracy in Cairo, Athens and London

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      Critical Social Policy
      SAGE Publications

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          Drawing on interviews conducted with activists from Athens, Cairo and London in 2013, we examine activists’ understandings of, critiques of and concerns around neoliberal policies. We demonstrate that activists often imply, and sometimes explicitly formulate, a fundamental incompatibility between the current economic system and their conceptions of democracy, but also that ‘anti-neoliberal’ is a very inadequate label for describing their political positions and practices. We demonstrate how activists developed deeply interlinked critiques of both the political system and the economic policies that emanated from it. We maintain that at least as important as their discourses were their practices. We analyse how solidarity and self-help practices were perceived as political interventions, rather than acts of charity, through which activists confronted the state with its failure to provide basic services.

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                Journal
                Critical Social Policy
                Critical Social Policy
                SAGE Publications
                0261-0183
                1461-703X
                August 2018
                March 10 2018
                August 2018
                : 38
                : 3
                : 527-546
                Affiliations
                [1 ]London School of Economics, England
                [2 ]University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
                Article
                10.1177/0261018318762452
                48869506-d042-4966-aaf1-908e51e32dff
                © 2018

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