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Democracy Here and Now

Ouziel, Pablo, Tully, James

2022

Overview

In Spain, on May 15, 2011, a movement against austerity measures began. In a time when representative democracies were under threat, 15M came to life as a virtuous and democratic response to the slide into far-right populism and authoritarianism. More than a social movement, 15M became a mode of being with transformative, democratizing potential. In Democracy Here and Now , Pablo Ouziel offers a grounded analysis of 15M. At the time of the movement and during the ensuing encampments, Ouziel travelled extensively, speaking to participants, and keeping an ongoing record of his conversations. Presenting an original participatory mode of research, the book reveals six types of intersubjective, joining hands relationships that 15M has brought into being and works to carry on in creative ways. The book shows how the movement’s way of being and temporality persists in Spain following the square occupations, while 15M citizens continue to learn and move forward in less perceptible ways. Democracy Here and Now sheds light on a deeply relational, intersectional, and eco-social mode of democracy, and shows how 15M’s ongoing democratization practices are exemplary of similar grassroots movements around the world, broadening our understandings of what it means to be democratic in the here and now.

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Subject: 15-M (Organisation) / 15-M (Organization) / 15-M (Organization) fast (OCoLC)fst01911344 / 2000-2099 fast / 21st century / Contestation -- Espagne -- Histoire -- 21e siècle / Democracy / Democracy -- Spain -- History -- 20th century / Democratization / Democratization -- Spain -- History -- 21st century / Democratization fast (OCoLC)fst00890123 / Democratization-Spain-History / Démocratisation -- Espagne -- Histoire -- 21e siècle / Espagne -- Conditions sociales -- 21e siècle / History / History & Theory / History fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 / Mouvements sociaux -- Espagne -- Histoire -- 21e siècle / Participation politique -- Espagne -- Histoire -- 21e siècle / PHILOSOPHY / Political / Political participation / Political participation -- Spain -- History -- 21st century / Political participation fast (OCoLC)fst01069386 / Political participation-Spain-History / POLITICAL SCIENCE / Protest movements / Protest movements -- Spain -- History -- 21st century / Protest movements fast (OCoLC)fst01079826 / Protest movements-Spain-History / Social conditions / Social conditions fast (OCoLC)fst01919811 / Social movements / Social movements -- Political aspects -- Spain / Social movements -- Spain -- History -- 21st century / Social movements fast (OCoLC)fst01122657 / Social movements-Spain-History / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Spain / Spain -- Politics and government -- 1982 / Spain -- Social conditions -- 21st century / Spain fast (OCoLC)fst01204303
• ISBN: 9781487543174, 1487543174, 9781487543198, 1487543182, 9781487543181, 1487543190