Los Indignados: Tides of Social Insertion in Spain

by Richard R. Weiner, Ivan Lopez

Overview

The emergent Indignados movement in Spain is transforming Spanish politics and society, heralding an end to the Transition since Franco, and responding to multiple legitimation crises in Spain and in Europe. This movement is rooted in the Stop Evictions campaign led by Ada Colau in Barcelona following the bursting of the subprime mortgage bubble in the wake of the 2008; as well as the 15-M Movement arising in May 2011 Puerta del Sol of Madrid, symbolizing the Indignez-Vous outrage of a lost generation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785353123
Publisher:	Collective Ink
Publication date:	12/08/2017
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.52(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

RICHARD R. WEINER [PhD Columbia] is Professor of Political Science at Rhode Island College & Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

IVAN LOPEZ (PhD Universidad Carlos III Madrid) is a Researcher and Assistant Professor at Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain) - Faculty of Social Sciences and Work. Since the economic crisis of 2008, he has been studying citizens' and political parties' responses to underlying social and political changes.

Editorial Reviews

This is such an important book on such an important topic. It is horrendously bleak in describing the world as experienced by so many of those who live in what we once called advanced western liberal democracies. And yet, and at the same time, it is wonderfully liberating in its detailed account of their mobilization and their attempts to make for themselves, indeed for us all, a better world.

Colin Hay

Honing in on democratic fundamentals, this rich book offers an engaged and learned chronicle of a mass social and political movement that, from the start, has sought to deepen and stengthen popular sovereignty across a wide range of issues, levels of governance, and systems of meaning. Moving fluidly among theory, observation and analysis, Los Indignados thus stretches our imagination well beyond Spain at a time of political passion, fragile institutions, the dissolution of traditional party bonds, and fraught ideological combinations.

Ira Katznelson