Rovisco, M, Poulakidakos, S and Veneti, A (Cover date: 2022) Who are we? Square Politics and the Collective Self-Understanding of the Indignados in Spain and Greece—Reflections and Legacies. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 28 (3). pp. 350-364. ISSN 1326-0219
Abstract
As occupations of squares in Spain spread across Europe, the Spanish Indignados gave rise to a transnational movement of ordinary citizens united in their anger against the banks, corruption, the electoral system, the global financial system, and the press. In this article, we reflect upon the legacies of the Spanish and Greek Indignados and show how their collective self-understanding—that is, a sense of a “us”—is formed and articulated very differently in Spain and Greece through square politics. We argue that it is the dramaturgy of political protest that fundamentally constructs and shapes the collective self-understanding of the Indignados in Spain and Greece. We will see that while in Spain there is a clearer sense of a shared political project and a shared identity, in Greece social movement actors were divided by their particular agendas and sectarian identities, which resulted in different articulations of their collective identity.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any med-ium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Keywords: | Indignados; dramaturgy; new social movements; collective identity; austerity |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 19 Jan 2023 11:35 |
Last Modified: | 28 Sep 2023 08:45 |
Published Version: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13260... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13260219.2022.2170732 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:195296 |