Spain After the Indignados/15M Movement The 99% Speaks Out

Editors: Pereira-Zazo, Óscar, Torres, Steven L. (Eds.)
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)

• Introduction: After the 15M

  Pereira-Zazo, Óscar (et al.)

  
  
• 15M and Indignant Democracy: Legitimation Problems Within Neoliberal Capitalism

  Monedero, Juan Carlos

  
  
• “Populism” as the Task of Constructing a People for Change

  Alegre Zahonero, Luis

  
  
• Podemos in Spain: Limits and Possibilities for Change

  Alba Rico, Santiago

  
  
• The 15M and the Financialization of Spanish Society

  Fernández-Steinko, Armando

• Basic Income: A Rational Proposal Guaranteeing the Material Existence of the Population

  Raventós, Daniel (et al.)

  
  
• Feminism and Environmentalism in Dialogue with the 15M and the New Political Cycle in Spain

  Herrero, Yayo

  
  
• The Podemos Phenomenon and the Crisis of Civilization

  Santiago Muíño, Emilio

  
  
• Toward a Postindustrial Left in Spain: Political Parties and Social Movements Facing the Collapse of Civilization

  Casal-Lodeiro, Manuel

  
  
• Media Control and Emancipation: The Public Sphere in Post-15M Spain

  Faber, Sebastiaan (et al.)

  
  
• Breaking the Walls of the Palace: The 15M Facing the Mass Media and the Culture Industry

  Rendueles, César (et al.)

  
  
• From the Politicization of Life to the New Politics

  Garcés, Marina

  
  
• Post-15M Grassroots Interventions in and for Public Space: Resurgence in Everyday Forms of Control and Resistance

  Saltzman, Megan

  
  
• PAH, the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages: A Transformative and Poliethical Mobilization

  Mir Garcia, Jordi

  
  
• Culture a la contra: A Cultural Paradigm Toward Alternatives to the Civilizatory and Ecological Crisis

  Álvarez-Blanco, Palmar

  
  
• Reasons to Celebrate

  San Juan, Alberto

  
  
• Ending the Culture of Fear Once and for All: Notes on NegraBlanca and Other Forms of Post-15M Empowerment

  Moreno-Caballud, Luis (et al.)

  
  
• Broken Authorities

  Gopegui, Belén

  
  
• A Specter Is Haunting the Recent Spanish Novel

  Becerra-Mayor, David

  
  
• Conclusion: Toward a New Cultural Politics for Spain

  Pereira-Zazo, Óscar (et al.)

  
  

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