The Southern Europe Crisis and Resistances: Free Podcast

On 22 Novem­ber 2012 aca­dem­ics from Por­tugal, Italy, Greece, Spain gathered at the Birk­beck Insti­tute for the Human­it­ies to dis­cuss the eco­nomic, polit­ical and human­it­arian crisis aus­ter­ity has cre­ated in South Europe. But PIGS can fly. The wide­spread protests of 2011 have star­ted again in Spain, Por­tugal and Italy while in Greece the new aus­ter­ity has brought the gov­ern­ment close to col­lapse. Is aus­ter­ity or res­ist­ance the future of Europe?

Speak­ers:
Cos­tas Douz­i­nas (Birk­beck)
Andrea Fumagalli (UNI PV)
Maria Mar­garonis (journ­al­ist for The Nation & The Guard­ian)
Juan Car­los Mone­dero (Uni­ver­sidad Com­plutense de Mad­rid)
Boaven­tura de Sousa San­tos (Coim­bra Uni­ver­sity, Birk­beck Lever­hulme Fel­low)
Luis Trindade - Chair (Birkbeck)

Listen to a free pod­cast of the event

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