ABSTRACT
Against the backdrop of the global financial crisis and the implementation of austerity policies in many European countries, the global wave of post-2010 activisms illuminates how depoliticization, civic disaffection and the rise of individualism go in tandem with the struggle for people’s social and economic rights and the crisis of legitimacy of representative democracy. In this chapter, we look at the case of the anti-austerity Greek “Do Not Pay” social movement in order to examine whether and how the protestors attempt to define their political presence and affirm their collective identity by exercising a new form of politics that goes beyond established ideological divisions between Left and Right.
