ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the role of social agency in understanding who has the capacity, with or without experience from other movements, to mobilise during crisis and how, while having the courage to resist austerity and to build networks of solidarity and social movement structures. Political economy has reflected on several aspects that are important for our understanding of social movements. In particular, it has helped in delineating three spatio-temporalities of resistance to capitalist austerity and social survival under it. Moreover, a middle-range spatio-temporality singles out cyclical shifts of growth and crises in particular social formations, as in the case of the current crisis in Southern European (SE). The chapter discusses self-organised social clinics. The first social solidarity clinic in Rethymnon, Crete, 2008, is established with the aim of providing health services to migrants.
