Cristina Flesher Fominaya is Professor of Global Studies at Aarhus University and an internationally recognized expert in European social movement and politics. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. She is Editor in Chief of the journal Social Movement Studies, co-founder of open access Interface Journal, author of Social Movements in a Globalized World (2nd ed) and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary European Social Movements (2020). She has published widely on social movements, democracy, and Spanish and European politics in English and Spanish.

• Preface


• List of Maps and Figures


• List of Tables


• List of Images


• List of Abbreviations


• Introduction


• Part I: Spanish Democracy and 15-M


• Chapter 1: Spanish Democracy and 15-M


• Part II: 15-M: From Protest to Occupation


• Chapter 2: Origin Stories


• Chapter 3: 15-May 2011: An Unexpected Detonator


• Chapter 4: Acampada Sol: The Chrysalis and the Crucible


• Chapter 5: Assessing the Significance of Acampada Sol


• Part III: From Occupation To Movement: Inside the 15-M Network


• Chapter 6: "It's Not A Crisis, It's A Swindle": Indignant and Precarious Pensioners


• Chapter 7: "The Citizens Did It": 15mparato, Autonomous Hacker Ethics in Action


• Chapter 8: The Pah: Building a Movement within a Movement


• Chapter 9: Indignant and Precarious Youth


• Part IV: From 15-M to Podemos


• Chapter 10: 15-M And Podemos: Explaining the Puzzle of the "Electoral Turn"


• Chapter 11: Podemos: A Hybrid Party?


• Conclusions


• Chapter 12: 15-M Political Culture, Collective Identity, and the Logic of Autonomous Networks in the Digital Age


• Chapter 13: Democracy Reloaded: Politics in Times of Crisis


• Notes


• References


• Index

In Democracy Reloaded, Cristina Flesher Fominaya tells the story of: Spain's Indignados or 15-M, one of the most influential social movements of recent times. In the wake of the global financial crisis and harsh austerity policies, 15-M movement activists occupied public squares across the country, mobilized millions of Spanish citizens, gave rise to new hybrid parties such as Podemos, and inspired pro-democracy movements around the world.