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Las transformaciones postcrisis. Movilizaciones espasmódicas y 'gran evento'

“…Las movilizaciones contemporáneas, sobre todo desde comienzos de la década de 2010, se articulan a través de redes sociales digitales con un potencial para reunir a corto plazo a multitudes en un evento masivo. La ocupación del espacio público, especialmente de plazas, a partir de 2011, materializa temporalmente la idea de comunidad a través de la restitución de la experiencia compartida: la Plaza Tahrir en El Cairo 80 , Syntagma, los indignados del 15M en la Puerta del Sol de Madrid 81 , los Occupy en Nueva York 82 y Londres, la Plaza Gezi en Estambul o el Nuit Debout en París son algunas de sus expresiones más características.…”

Which Crisis? European Crisis and National Contexts in Public Discourse

“…Analyses of these countries have triggered the exploration of several research questions investigating different aspects: the radical critique of representative democracy (della Porta ; Flesher Fominaya ), the crisis of the European governance (Kriesi et al . ), the relationship between social mobilization and political representation (della Porta ; Kriesi ), the role of social media (Gerbaudo ; Juris ), the links with extra‐European experiences such as Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring (della Porta and Mattoni ; Romanos ), the forms of organization experienced in the squares (Maeckelberg ), and the social composition of anti‐austerity protests (Peterson, Wahlstrom, and Wennerhag ). In particular, researchers on social movements have been investigating the role of the crisis in triggering anti‐austerity protest (Giugni and Grasso ), claiming a comeback of materialistic issues and the analysis of structural economic factors in the field of social movement studies (della Porta ; Hetland and Goodwin ), proposing to bring grievances back in as an explanatory factor (Portos ), and measuring the relationship between perceived economic loss and political attitudes in protest behavior (Bernburg ).…”

Essay: Rethinking Global Civil Society and the Public Sphere in the Age of Pro-democracy Movements

“…(Lawrence, 2013;Romanos, 2016); enhancing the relevance of new communication tools to alter classic political intermediation processes (Tormey, 2015;Subirats, 2012); influencing the mass media through media-based "hacking"; organising protests as if they were shows (Flesher-Fominaya, 2014;Micó & Casero, 2014); consolidating collective shared identities (Gerbaudo & Treré, 2015;Monterde et al, 2015;Toret, 2013); and establishing occupations as places to practice in, to experiment in and for democratic "incubators" (Postill, 2015;Gerbaudo, 2017). These are just some of the trends that define a transnational public sphere and as such it is plausible to consider that we are witnessing movements that form part of global civil society.…”