Social movements in times of austerity bringing capitalism back into protest analysis by donatella della porta malden mass polity press 2015 pp viii1249 dorothy kidd university of san francisco in social movementsin times ofausterity donatella della porta compares two left wing protest movements in western europe the antiausterity pro. 2017 social movements in times of austerity bringing capitalism back into protest analysis european journal of cultural and political sociology vol 4 no 2 pp 235 239. Social movements in times of austerity bringing capitalism back into protest analysis recent years have seen an enormous increase in protests across the world in which citizens have challenged what they see as a deterioration of democratic institutions and the very civil political and social rights that form the basis of democratic life. Donatella della porta social movements in times of austerity bringing capitalism back into protest analysis cambridge polity press 2015 248 pages isbn 13 9780745688589 hbk review by marius ioan tatar. In social movements in times of austerity donatella della porta compares two left wing protest movements in western europe the antiausterity protests of 2011 and the earlier cycle of mobilizations of the global justice movement gjm drawing on a plethora of empirical data from surveys interviews movement documents websites and participant observation she examines the continuities and differences in the social base identities organizational forms and demands of these two cycles of