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Debunking Spontaneity: Spain's 15-M/Indignados as Autonomous Movement
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In this paper, the authors argue that the ability of 15-M/Indignados to sustain mobilization based on deliberative democratic practices is not spontaneous, but the result of the evolution of an autonomous collective identity predicated on the deliberative movement culture in Spain since the early 1980s.Abstract:
The Spanish 15-M/Indignados have drawn global attention for the strength and longevity of their anti-austerity mobilizations. Two features have been highlighted as particularly noteworthy: (1) Their refusal to allow institutional left actors to participate in or represent the movement, framed as a movement of ‘ordinary citizens’ and (2) their insistence on the use of deliberative democratic practices in large public assemblies as a central organizing principle. As with many emergent cycles of protest, many scholars, observers and participants attribute the mobilizations with spontaneity and ‘newness’. I argue that the ability of the 15-M/Indignados to sustain mobilization based on deliberative democratic practices is not spontaneous, but the result of the evolution of an autonomous collective identity predicated on deliberative movement culture in Spain since the early 1980s. My discussion contributes to the literature on social movement continuity and highlights the need for historically grounded analyse...read more
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Del 15M al giro electoralista. Proyectos espaciales y fetiches políticos en las estrategias de acción colectiva
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors contribute to the debate on how and why a large sector of Spanish activism has shifted to institutional politics after the 15M or Indignados movement, concluding that autonomist practices are the basis for a shift on the institutions in a context of crisis.
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Citizens against Austerity: a Comparative Reflection on Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH) and Bündnis Zwangsräumung Verhindern (BZV) 1 Ciudadanos contra la austeridad: una reflexión comparativa entre la Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH) y Bündnis Zwangsräumung Verhindern (BZV)
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The individualization of political activism: A reflection on social movements and modernization, starting from the case of Italian animal advocacy
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Methodological Approaches to Movement Waves and the Making of History
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a series of methods made practicable by the epistemological approach advocated here and argue for a wider engagement by social movement scholars with an ontology of praxis.
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Social movement continuity: the women's movement in abeyance*
TL;DR: The authors used social movement and organization theory to develop a set of concepts that help explain social movement continuity, including temporality, purposive commitment, exclusiveness, centralization, and culture.