Crisis and Social Mobilization in Contemporary Spain: The 15M Movement

ISBN-13: 9781472431363 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 206 str.

Benjamin Tejerina Montana; Ignacia Perugorria

Opis

Since May 15, 2011, the 15M movement, or that of the Spanish indignados, has served as a beacon for mobilizations across the world. Initially called for by a core constituency of young, often college-educated, typically under-/unemployed citizens who articulated widespread grievances, it rapidly attracted many other groups within the Spanish citizenry. Its massive protest events received unprecedented support across all socio-demographic and politico-ideological cleavages. While events in Madrid remained at the center of public attention, the movement spread to the Spanish periphery. The Spanish 15M thus seemed to successfully surmount the profound social and politico-ideological fractures that have traditionally cut across Spanish politics: the right-left continuum, and the Spanish unionism-regionalism or peripheral nationalism axis. These characteristics place the 15M within the small and rare family of what we have elsewhere defined as encompassing protests . This volume brings a holistic perspective to the study of the 15M that rejects cultural, economic, and even political reductionism. Each chapter focusses on the substantive topics of identities, emotions, cognition, repertoires, cultural resources, the media, and the interaction between social movements, regional institutions and the state and are all accompanied by a profound analytical reflection about the impact of 15M movement on the current theoretical framework for the transformation of social movements in Spain."

Spis treści

1. Beyond Austerity and Indignation: Embodiments, Spaces, and Networks in the 15M Movement: An Introduction [Benjamín Tejerina and Ignacia Perugorría]  2. Among Militants and Deliberative Laboratories: The "Indignados" [Héloïse Nez and Ernesto Ganuza]  3. Identity in the Move. Between Emotional and Relational Processes of Mobilization [Ignacia Perugorría and Benjamín Tejerina]  4. From Digital Commons to Society Commons: Influence of the Free Culture Movement into the 15M Mobilization [Mayo Fuster Morell]  5. "La Revolución Será Feminista, o No Será". Reflections on Feminisms and the 15M [María Martínez]  6. The Occupation of Squares and the Squatting of Buildings: Lessons About the Convergence of Two Social Movements [Miguel A. Martínez and Ángela García]  7. The Strategic Use of Humor in the Spanish Indignados/15M Movement [Eduardo Romanos]  8. The 15M Movement and the Crisis of Conventional Politics [Alfonso Pérez-Agote]  9. The Spanish Indignados: The Role of Political Cleavages in Shaping Encompassing Protests [Ignacia Perugorría, Michael Shalev and Benjamín Tejerina]  10. The 15M Movement and Processes of Democratization [Benjamín Tejerina and Ignacia Perugorría]