https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030194345
Spain After the Indignados/15M Movement explores how the
aftershocks of the 2007 Great Recession restructured Spain’s political
sphere and political imaginary. It brings together a representative
sample of Spain’s leading progressive voices, including two of the five
founding members of the Podemos party. The essays herein explore the
areas of economics, politics, ecology, social change, media, and
cultural politics in order to present a broad, critical account of
contemporary Spain, with a special emphasis on emerging forms of
sociopolitical contestation, self-organizing, democratic participation,
and radical politics. The edited volume argues that Spanish cultural
studies—which originally gravitated toward celebratory accounts of
capitalist modernization, the cultural Movida and the advent of a
postmodern Spain—must continue to build a new cultural politics that not
only challenges the accepted narrative of the Spanish Transition to
democracy, but that is committed to confronting the civilizatory
challenges currently faced.Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Introduction: After the 15M
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15M and Indignant Democracy: Legitimation Problems Within Neoliberal Capitalism
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“Populism” as the Task of Constructing a People for Change
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Podemos in Spain: Limits and Possibilities for Change
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The 15M and the Financialization of Spanish Society
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Basic Income: A Rational Proposal Guaranteeing the Material Existence of the Population
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Feminism and Environmentalism in Dialogue with the 15M and the New Political Cycle in Spain
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The Podemos Phenomenon and the Crisis of Civilization
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Toward a Postindustrial Left in Spain: Political Parties and Social Movements Facing the Collapse of Civilization
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Media Control and Emancipation: The Public Sphere in Post-15M Spain
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Breaking the Walls of the Palace: The 15M Facing the Mass Media and the Culture Industry
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From the Politicization of Life to the New Politics
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Post-15M Grassroots Interventions in and for Public Space: Resurgence in Everyday Forms of Control and Resistance
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PAH, the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages: A Transformative and Poliethical Mobilization
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Culture a la contra: A Cultural Paradigm Toward Alternatives to the Civilizatory and Ecological Crisis
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Reasons to Celebrate
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Ending the Culture of Fear Once and for All: Notes on NegraBlanca and Other Forms of Post-15M Empowerment
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Broken Authorities
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A Specter Is Haunting the Recent Spanish Novel
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Conclusion: Toward a New Cultural Politics for Spain
