Table of Contents

Introduction—Re-imagining Democracy: Legacy, Impact and Lessons of Spain’s 15-M Movement 1. Reconsidering social movement impact on democracy: the case of Spain’s 15-M movement 2. What has become of the Indignados? The biographical consequences of participation in the 15M movement in Madrid (2011–19) 3. 15-M movement and feminist economics: an insight into the dialogues between social movements and academia in Spain 4. Transforming urban democracy through social movements: the experience of Ahora Madrid 5. Caring democracy now: neighborhood support networks in the wake of the 15-M 6. The rise of a new media ecosystem: exploring 15M’s educommunicative legacy for radical democracy 7. The mobilising memory of the 15-M movement: recollections and sediments in Spanish protest culture 8. 15-M Mobilizations and the penalization of counter-hegemonic protest in contemporary Spain 9. The political economy of the Spanish Indignados: political opportunities, social conflicts, and democratizing impacts

About the Author

Cristina Flesher Fominaya is Editor-in-Chief of Social Movement Studies, a Founding Editor of Interface Journal, and author of Social Movements and Globalization (2014) and Democracy Reloaded (2020). She is Professor of Global Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. She publishes widely on European and global social movements, hybrid parties, digital politics and media, collective identity, democracy, autonomy, and political participation.

Ramón A. Feenstra is Associate Professor at the Universitat Jaume I of Castellón, Spain. He has published the books Kidnapped Democracy (2019) and Refiguring Democracy. The Spanish Political Laboratory (co-authored with Simon Tormey, Andreu Casero and John Keane, Routledge, 2017). He is a former editor of Recerca. Revista de Pensament I Anàlisi.