From Financial Crisis to Social Change

1. Introduction
Torsten Geelan, Marcos González Hernando, Peter William Walsh

2. Consecrating the Elite: Culturally Embedding the Financial Market in the City of London
Alex Simpson

Section I. Reclaiming Universities

3. The Never-Ending Crisis in British Higher Education
Mike Finn

4. The Coming Crisis of Academic Authority
Eric R. Lybeck

5. Consuming Education
Alice Pearson

Section II. Revitalising Democracy

6. Local Maidan Across Ukraine: Democratic Aspirations in the Revolution of Dignity
Olga Zelinska

7. Opportunity in Crisis: Alternative Media and Subaltern Resistance
Benjamin Anderson

8. The Battle of Barton Moss
Steven Speed

Section III. Recasting Politics

9. The Limits of Populism: Mills, Marcuse and 1960s Radicalism and Occupy
Mike O’Donnell

10. The Myth of Bourgeois Democracy
Andreas Møller Mulvad, Rune Møller Stahl

11. Seeing Like a PIG: The Crisis in Greece as a Tale of Hope and Disillusionment
Rosa Vasilaki

12. Unleashing the Emancipatory Power of the ‘Spirit of Free Communal Service’: G.D.H. Cole, Dialogical Coordination and Social Change
Charles Masquelier

13. Afterword
Torsten Geelan, Marcos González Hernando, Peter William Walsh

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Political Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Education, Sociological Theory