From Financial Crisis to Social Change

Torsten Geelan holds a PhD and MPhil in Sociology from the University of Cambridge, and a Bachelor in Economics and Social Science from the University of ManchesterMarcos González Hernando is Affiliated Researcher at the University of Cambridge and Principal Researcher at FEPS-Think tank for Action on Social Change (TASC)Peter William Walsh is Affiliated Researcher in the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge

• 1. Introduction; Torsten Geelan, Marcos González Hernando, and Peter William Walsh.- 2. Consecrating the Elite: Culturally Embedding the Financial Market in the City of London; Alex Simpson .- Section 1: Reclaiming Universities .- 3. The Never-Ending Crisis in British Higher Education; Mike Finn .- 4. The Coming Crisis of Academic Authority; Eric Royal Lybeck .- 5. Consuming Education; Alice Pearson .- Section 2: 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 3: 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 and 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, and Peter William Walsh.