المؤلفون: Geoffrey Pleyers

المساهمون: UCL - SSH/IACS - Institute of Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies

المصدر: Subterranean Politics in Europe ISBN: 9781349573486

مصطلحات موضوعية: Engineering, Civil society, business.industry, Direct democracy, Indignation, Genealogy, Power (social and political), Austerity, General election, Economic history, Mainstream, media_common.cataloged_instance, European union, business, media_common

الوصف: On 15 May 2011, ten days before the national general election, a crowd took over the Plaza del Sol in Madrid to protest against the lack of alternatives proposed by the two main parties, the centre-left Socialists and the right-wing ‘Popular Party’. Inspired by the recent events in Tahrir Square, one of their goals was to implement direct democracy in the plazas and neighbourhood camps and assemblies. Following Madrid’s lead, Indignados camps bubbled up in all Spanish cities and across various European countries. Then on 17 September of that year, activists set up camp in Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park to denounce rising inequalities and the power of the richest ‘1%’ over national policies. In its turn, ‘Occupy Wall Street’ inspired camps and actions in dozens of US cities and all over Europe, from London to Moscow. These mobilisations captured the attention of the mainstream press, and were celebrated by progressive activists as a much-awaited reaction against the economic crisis. Yet two years on from that day in the Plaza del Sol, the economic crisis and the austerity plans which generated so much indignation remained at the top of the European agenda. Meanwhile, the squares are empty, tents have gone, and most occupiers’ assemblies have disappeared. Was it nothing more than an ephemeral outcry?

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https://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/169348