Overview
Provides a transdisciplinary set of chapters offering perspectives from Spanish Studies, Cultural and Literary Studies, Political Science, Economics, Social Science, Environmental Studies, and Media Studies
Assembles a variety of voices that confront the historical significance of the Indignados/15M Movement with the goal of challenging the standard Transition narrative along with the promotion of an isolated cultural sphere floating above our capitalist dystopia
Addresses how cultural critics and intellectuals can engage in a realistic cultural politics that overcomes the “deflated utopianism” that defines much of today’s cultural criticism
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Environmental Crossroads
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Social Mobilization
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About this book
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.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Spain After the Indignados/15M Movement
Book Subtitle: The 99% Speaks Out
Editors: Óscar Pereira-Zazo, Steven L. Torres
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19435-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19434-5Published: 04 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19437-6Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19435-2Published: 24 June 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 338
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Culture, Media and Communication, European Politics, Cultural Studies