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Description of  Crisis and Social Mobilization in Contemporary Spain: The 15M Movement (The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture)

The year 2011 marked the emergence of a series of mobilizations of the indignant that spread like wildfire around the worldfrom the Arab Spring to Europe, and soon afterwards to Occupy Wall Street, the Spanish 15M was pivotal to the transnational diffusion of protest. This volume analyzes the features that turned the 15M into a beacon for international mobilization, and those that garnered it unprecedented domestic support, surpassing historic socio-economic and politico-ideological fractures in Spain. It also delves into its gradual demise, and its profound impact on the emergence of political "offsprings" that portray themselves as heirs to the 15M spirit, such as Podemos. Read more