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Book SynopsisSpain 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 ContentsPart I. A New Cultural Politics for Spain1. Introduction: A New Cultural Politics for Spain; Óscar Pereira-Zazo and Steven L. TorresPart II. Political Crisis2. 15-M and Indignant Democracy: Legitimation Problems within Neoliberal Capitalism; Juan Carlos Monedero3. ‘Populism’ as the Task of
Constructing a People for Change; Luis Alegre Zahonero4. Podemos in Spain: Limits and Possibilities for Change; Santiago Alba RicoPart III. Economic Failure5. Speculation and Corruption in the DNA of the Spanish Economy; José Manuel Naredo6. The 15-M and the Financialization of Spanish Society; Armando Fernández-Steinko7. Basic Income: A Rational Proposal Guaranteeing the Material Existence of the Population; Daniel Raventós and Julie WarkPart IV. Environmental Crossroads8. Feminism and Environmentalism in Dialogue with the 15-M and the New Political Cycle in Spain; Yayo Herrero9. The Podemos Phenomenon and the Crisis of Civilization; Emilio Santiago-Muiño10. Toward a Postindustrial Left in Spain: Political Parties and Social Movements Facing the Collapse of Civilization; Manuel Casal-LodeiroPart V. Media Control11. Media Control and Emancipation: The Public Sphere in Post-15-M Spain; Sebastiaan Faber and Bécquer Seguín12. The Press is Dead… Long Live the Press; Pascual Serrano13. Breaking the Walls of the Palace. The 15-M Facing the Mass Media and the Culture Industry; César Rendueles and Jorge SolaPart VI. Social Mobilization14. From the Politicization of Life to the New Politics; Marina Garcés15. Post-15-M Grassroots Interventions in and for Public Space—Resurgence in Everyday Forms of Control and Resistance; Megan Saltzman16. PAH; Jordi Mir-GarciaPart VII. Culture in Transition17.
Cultura a la Contra: Toward Alternatives to the Civilizational and Ecological Crisis; Palmar Álvarez-Blanco18. Reasons to Celebrate; Alberto San Juan19. 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 Llanos20. Broken Authorities; Belén Gopegui21. A Specter Is Haunting the Recent Spanish Novel; David Becerra-Mayor
