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

by ïscar Pereira-Zazo (Editor), Steven L. Torres (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030194376
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	06/29/2019
Edition description:	1st ed. 2019
Pages:	338
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Óscar Pereira-Zazo teaches Spanish literature and cultural theory at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA. He is author of El Análisis de la Comunicación en Español and De cómo el Libro de buen amor llegó a serlo, and co-editor of two critical editions of the Book of the Archpriest of Hita.

Steven L. Torres teaches Spanish and Spanish literature and culture at the University of Nebraska Omaha, USA. He is a co-founder of ALCESXXI. Much of his research focusses on metacultural discourse and the complex relation between culture and politics. He is author of Discurso metacultural en España: Miguel de Unamuno.

Table of Contents

Part I. A New Cultural Politics for Spain
1. Introduction: A New Cultural Politics for Spain; Óscar Pereira-Zazo and Steven L. Torres
Part II. Political Crisis
2. 15-M and Indignant Democracy: Legitimation Problems within Neoliberal Capitalism; Juan Carlos Monedero
3. ‘Populism’ as the Task of Constructing a People for Change; Luis Alegre Zahonero4. Podemos in Spain: Limits and Possibilities for Change; Santiago Alba Rico
Part III. Economic Failure
5. Speculation and Corruption in the DNA of the Spanish Economy; José Manuel Naredo
6. The 15-M and the Financialization of Spanish Society; Armando Fernández-Steinko
7. Basic Income: A Rational Proposal Guaranteeing the Material Existence of the Population; Daniel Raventós and Julie Wark
Part IV. Environmental Crossroads
8. Feminism and Environmentalism in Dialogue with the 15-M and the New Political Cycle in Spain; Yayo Herrero
9. The Podemos Phenomenon and the Crisis of Civilization; Emilio Santiago-Muiño
10. Toward a Postindustrial Left in Spain: Political Parties and Social Movements Facing the Collapse of Civilization; Manuel Casal-Lodeiro
Part V. Media Control
11. Media Control and Emancipation: The Public Sphere in Post-15-M Spain; Sebastiaan Faber and Bécquer Seguín
12. The Press is Dead… Long Live the Press; Pascual Serrano
13. Breaking the Walls of the Palace. The 15-M Facing the Mass Media and the Culture Industry; César Rendueles and Jorge Sola
Part VI. Social Mobilization
14. From the Politicization of Life to the New Politics; Marina Garcés
15. Post-15-M Grassroots Interventions in and for Public Space—Resurgence in Everyday Forms of Control and Resistance; Megan Saltzman
16. PAH; Jordi Mir-Garcia
Part VII. Culture in Transition
17. Cultura a la Contra: Toward Alternatives to the Civilizational and Ecological Crisis; Palmar Álvarez-Blanco
18. Reasons to Celebrate; Alberto San Juan
19. Ending the Culture of Fear Once and for All: Notes on NegraBlanca and Other Forms of Post-15-M Empowerment; Luis Moreno-Caballud and Helena de Llanos
20. Broken Authorities; Belén Gopegui
21. A Specter Is Haunting the Recent Spanish Novel; David Becerra-Mayor

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“The reading has been personally very enriching, and I will be referring often to it both for academic and for activist purposes. The collection of articles is most timely and addresses key sociopolitical and cultural issues and movements in contemporary Spain, in the wake of the Indignados/15M movement that rose in 2011 as a response to the effects of economic crisis. … The book will be useful for both academics and political/cultural activists in social movements and grassroots organizing. The topics addressed are urgent, of eminent current interest.” (José A. Valero, Professor of Languages, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, USA)