1st Edition

Crisis and Social Mobilization in Contemporary Spain The 15M Movement

Edited By Benjamín Tejerina, Ignacia Perugorría Copyright 2018
220 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 29 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The year 2011 marked the emergence of a series of mobilizations of the indignant that spread like wildfire around the world—from the Arab Spring to Europe, and soon afterwards to Occupy Wall Street, the Spanish 15M was pivotal to the transnational diffusion of protest. This volume analyzes the features that turned the 15M into a beacon for international mobilization, and those that garnered it... Read more

List of contributors

List of abbreviations

Map of Spain and Autonomous Communities

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]

Biography

Benjamin Tejerina is Professor of Sociology at the University of the Basque Country in Spain and Director of the Collective Identity Research Center

Ignacia Perugorria is a PhD Candidate at the University of the Basque Country in Spain and a visiting researcher at the Collective Identity Research Center