Bringing together contributions from an international group of social scientists, this collection examines diverse crises, both historical and contemporary, which implicate market forces, widening inequalities, social exclusion, forms of resistance, and ideological polarisation. The Commonalities of Global Crises offers carefully researched case studies which stretch across large geographical distances- from Egypt to the US and from northern, central, eastern and southern Europe to South America- and covers timely issues including human rights, slavery, care, migration, racism, and the far right. The volume demonstrates that such different settings and diverse concerns are characterized by a common tension in which the crises that unfold around pressures of widening marketization and commodification are met by the (re)building or re-assertion of various communities, and competing politics of solidarity and nostalgia.

Christian Karner is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham, UK. His research focuses on local, national and ethnic identity negotiations in the context of contemporary globalization. His books includeWriting History, Constructing Religion (co-edited with James Crossley); Ethnicity and Everyday Life;Negotiating National Identities; andThe Use and Abuse of Memory (co-edited with Bram Mertens).

Bernhard Weicht is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His research examines the construction of care, ageing, dependency, and the intersection of migration and care policies and regimes. He is the author ofThe Meaning of Care and chair of the European Sociological Association Research Network Ageing in Europe.

1.- Introduction:Markets, communities and nostalgia; Christian Karner and Bernhard Weicht.- 2.France in times of the Responsibility and Solidarity Pact: Neoliberalnormalization or a laboratory of new resistance?; Frédéric Moulène.- 3. Neoliberalmoral economy: migrant workers value struggles across temporal and spatialdimensions; Barbara Samaluk.- 4. Treble Troubles? Marketization, SocialProtection and Emancipation Considered through the Lens of Slavery; Julia OConnell Davidson.- 5. State, Market, or back to the Family? Nostalgicstruggles for proper elder care; Bernhard Weicht.- 6. Moral economy versus political economy:provincializing Polanyi; John Holmwood.- 7. Collectiveidentity under reconstruction: The case of West Piraeus (Greece); GiorgosBithymitris.- 8. Austria between social protection and emancipation: negotiatingglobal flows, marketization and nostalgia; Christian Karner.- 9. Disembeddingthe embedded/disembedded opposition; José Julián López.- 10. Thepolitics of nostalgia in urban redevelopment projects: the case of Antwerp-Dam;Bruno Meeus, Tim Devos and Seppe De Blust.- 11. Longing for purity:countryside, (far-right) nationalism and the (im)possibility of progressivepolitics of nostalgia ; Bernhard Forchtner.- 12. Varieties of Nostalgiain Argentinean and Chilean generations ; Raimundo Frei.- 13. The EgyptianEconomic Crisis: Insecurity, Affect, Nostalgia ; Amal Treacher Kabesh.- 14.Epilogue ; Christian Karner and Bernhard Weicht