Journal ArticleDOI
Debunking Spontaneity: Spain's 15-M/Indignados as Autonomous Movement
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
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
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
European anti-austerity and pro-democracy protests in the wake of the global financial crisis
TL;DR: In Europe, anti-austerity protests were initiated by two sets of actors, Institutional Left and Autonomous actors as mentioned in this paper, who linked antiausterity claims to interpretive system of meanings framed around the crisis of legitimacy of representative democracy.
Journal ArticleDOI
Explaining Spontaneous Occupation: Antecedents, Contingencies and Spaces in the Umbrella Movement
Edmund W. Cheng,Wai-Yin Chan +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examines the antecedent and contingent causes sparking the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong, and concludes that two contingent events generating pre-emptive and backlash mobilization were the main causes of the movement.
Journal ArticleDOI
Redefining the Crisis/Redefining Democracy: Mobilising for the Right to Housing in Spain's PAH Movement
TL;DR: This article explored the Platform of Those Affected by Mortgages' controversial escrache campaign to show how social movements actively resisting austerity measures transcend the specific issues around which they mobilise to contest hegemonic definitions of crisis and of democracy, laying the groundwork for the reconfiguration of Spain's political landscape.
Journal ArticleDOI
Social media empowerment in social movements: power activation and power accrual in digital activism
TL;DR: This study builds on a case study of an environmental movement to derive a conceptualisation of the processes of how social media can allow individuals to assume a more proactive role in driving a social movement and provides a new understanding of the use of social media to sustain activism over time.
Journal ArticleDOI
Podemos and Ciudadanos Shake up the Spanish Party System: The 2015 Local and Regional Elections
Toni Rodon,María José Hierro +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the main characteristics of the new party competition and the profile of those voting for new political alternatives are discussed in the context, the campaign and the results of the elections.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Caught in a Winding, Snarling Vine: The Structural Bias of Political Process Theory
Jeff Goodwin,James M. Jasper +1 more
TL;DR: The authors recommend social movement analysis that rejects invariant modeling, is wary of conceptual stretching, and recognizes the diverse ways that culture and agency, including emotions and strategizing, shape collective action.
Book
The old régime and the French Revolution
TL;DR: De Tocqueville as mentioned in this paper was the first to write a book on the French Revolution, only the first part of which came to fruition, as de Tocqueteville's life was cut short by cholera in his fifties.
BookDOI
Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements
TL;DR: For instance, Polletta's "freedom is an endless meeting" as discussed by the authors explores the history of participatory democracy in early labor struggles and pre-World War II pacifism, in the civil rights, new left and women's liberation movements of the sixties and seventies, and in today's faith-based organizing and anti-corporate globalization campaigns.
Book
Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization
TL;DR: The Cultural Logic of Networking as mentioned in this paper has been used in a wide range of activities, including direct action protests, social forums, and political change and cultural transformation in a digital age.
Journal ArticleDOI
“It Was Like A Fever…” Narrative and Identity in Social Protest
TL;DR: Although the 1960 student sit-ins were not nearly as uncoordinated as contemporaneous and subsequent accounts suggested, their repeated characterization in participants' accounts as "spontaneous" merits explanation as discussed by the authors.