Plunging into turmoil in the aftermath of crisis /edited by Cristina Montalvão Sarmento.

Introduction / Cristina Montalvão Sarmento -- I. The 2008 Global Crisis and Beyond : Chapter I. From Shattering Iberia to the Future Post-modern Crisis / Cristina Montalvão Sarmento -- Chapter II. What Economics for Democracy? / Manuel Couret Branco -- Chapter III. "Soulless Capitalism" in the Context of the 2008 Global Economic Crisis: Any Lesson for Africa? / Lere Amusan -- Chapter IV. "Crisis" as a Social-scientific and Critical Perspective on the Question of Democracy in Portugal 2011-2014 / Jonas Van Vossole -- II. Empirical Approaches to Crisis Phenomena : Chapter V. Catastrophe, Economic Turmoil and Social Crisis / Filipa Brandão -- Chapter VI. Learning the Art of Making Economic Crisis Even Worse in Spain / Raúl de Arriba and Maria Vidagañ -- Chapter VII. A Portuguese Generation in Turmoil / Patrícia Oliveira and Patrícia Tomás -- Chapter VIII. Will China Reshape the World Order After the Global Economic Crisis? / Zhaohui Wang -- Chapter IX. The Euro Crisis and the Trilemma of the Future of teh European Union / Samuel de Paiva Pires -- III. Future Trends on Social Sciences and the Crisis : Chapter X. Can the Social Sciences Contribute to the Creation of Alternative Forms of Social, Economic, and Political Organization? / Carlota Vaz -- Chapter XI. Revolution Wave 2013-2014: Raising the Question / Leonid Issaev and Andrey Korotayev -- Chapter XII. Managing the Crisis by the Reasonable in the Normality of Life: The Right to the Good and the Common Good / Gregory Tzanetos -- Chapter XIII. Facing the Crisis through Charity: A Proposal of New Humanistic Synthesis / Jorge Botelho Moniz -- Contributors.

The 2008 economic and financial crisis marked the beginning of a period of social transformation and uncertainty that continues to characterise present and future social development in unplanned and unexpected ways, with frequently harmful effects. It has highlighted the need for a deeper understanding of crises phenomena and how these affect the overall course of human development. On the one hand, the social sciences constitute a means for aquiring a better understanding of the character of the rapid and complex social transformations associated with crisis. On the other hand, they can orientate people and social practices on how a greater degree of collective and democratic control can be acquired over the manner and direction of social processes in crises contexts. This book brings together a team of international scholars to address the notion of crises. Two main strains of inquiry orientate this study. First, it questions how different sociological and theoretical approaches might contribute to explain crises phenomena, analyse their effects, and identify their potential future paths of development. Secondly, it considers how crises processes and their effects on human social existence demand a re-thinking of the role of the social sciences in society, and what such as role might be. This volume not only opens up future lines of research by providing a comprehensive approach to crises phenomena, but also fills an important gap in the literature about crises which is frequently focused on only one of these dimensions and on particular historical contexts, rather than producing more comprehensive frameworks regarding the study of crises processes as a whole--back cover.

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