Podemos and the New Political Cycle

Podemos and the New Political Cycle
Author: Óscar García Agustín
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2017-11-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319634321

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This edited volume explores the context in which the Spanish party Podemos operates as both an agent and product of political cycles. It provides an account of the party’s genealogy, ideological environment and relation to other political initiatives in Latin America and Western Europe. The contributors address the multiples dynamics generated by Podemos as a new party developed out of the economic crisis, the structural crisis concerning social democracy and the incarnation of the welfare state project, and, more generally, out of the Left. It will appeal to upper-level students and scholars interested in Spanish politics, history, culture and sociology.

Politics in a Time of Crisis

Politics in a Time of Crisis
Author: Pablo Iglesias
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2015-11-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1784783978

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Since 2011, Pablo Iglesias has led Podemos, a new radical left party in Spain that is reframing the nature of modern politics. Under his guidance, the party has unmasked the ideological motives behind European austerity, revealing the true nature of this power grab conducted on behalf of elites intent on dismantling the welfare state. Here, Iglesias delineates his political vision. He skewers not only the Spanish establishment, but also the anti-democratic bloc comprising the Troika, corporate interests, and the "Wall Street Party." Politics in a Time of Crisis-which includes an in-depth interview with Iglesias-is an incisive examination of the current situation in Europe as well as a stirring call for international resistance.

Podemos

Podemos
Author: Íñigo Errejón
Publisher:
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2016
Genre: Democracy
ISBN: 9781910448892

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The rise of Podemos in Spain is part of a wave of European left political initiatives that are putting forward new ideas for change and innovative ways of thinking about politics. The traditional left in Europe has been in difficulties for some time now: the communist tradition is a shadow of its former self, while social democracy seems unable to meet the challenge of the financial crisis. The thinkers and activists of Podemos have been at the forefront of rethinking based on moving away from orthodoxies, bringing new hope to the left. In this book Inigo Errejon of Podemos and political theorist Chantal Mouffe discuss the emergence of these new movements, and in particular of Podemos. They critically engage with both the older traditions and the newly emerging parties and movements. They explore new ways of creating collective identities, and building majorities, while also reflecting on the major political challenges facing the left. The conversation between them is an intervention from two people who are ideally placed to draw on the seminal earlier theoretical work of Mouffe with Ernesto Laclau, and to link it directly into the practice of the new politics. This book is therefore important reading for those interested in the state of the contemporary European left in general, and specifically in the strategic issues facing Podemos in Spain. It makes an essential contribution towards the creation of a new left politics.

Performing Populism

Performing Populism
Author: Ruben Perez Hidalgo
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2023-10-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0826506119

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Whether or not it constituted a complete break from the past, the 15-M movement’s most important legacy was a more expansive notion of the popular political, one that recognized cultural representation as a mode of political articulation and as part of a political culture. In an effort to understand the populist cycle inaugurated by 15-M, and to do so beyond a series of narrated events, Performing Populism sets out to explain Spanish populism in relation to the performances of its visual politics. The book's first part examines how the 15-M movement created a new way of seeing that in turn led to a new way of doing politics in Spain. Part Two focuses on the multiple ramifications of that new vision once the people stopped marching and the movement became less visible. From electoral posters to fiction films, documentaries, and internet memes, Performing Populism traces the ways that collective Spanish identities evolved from a period when "the people" seemed to have been willingly subsumed under the apathetic ideation of the middle-class consumer to the moment in 2011 when a crisis of representation forced many into political consciousness. This rude awakening kickstarted the reconstruction of a Spanish "us" that staged exhibitions of popular will on par with and parallel to the Arab Spring, but in a European register that embraced the countercultural through art that disremembered its political past but could not escape the ghostly shadow of its history.

The Dark Side of Podemos?

The Dark Side of Podemos?
Author: Josh Booth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2018-05-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351212532

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In 2014 a new progressive party, Podemos, emerged on the Spanish political scene. Within just over two years it had become the country’s third-biggest party, winning a slew of seats in parliament and regularly making headline news. While some see Podemos as the saviour of Spanish democracy, others have accused it of corrosive populism. But what few have noticed is that behind its distinctive rhetoric lies a thinker closely associated with Germany’s Third Reich: Carl Schmitt. Why has an ostensibly progressive and avowedly anti-fascist political party taken up Schmitt’s ideas? The puzzle only deepens when we learn of Schmitt’s links with Francisco Franco’s dictatorship. In The Dark Side of Podemos?, Booth and Baert explain why Schmittian theory resonated with Podemos’ founders. In doing so, the authors position Podemos and the ideas that guide it within the context of recent Spanish history and ongoing politics of memory, revealing a story about how personal and political narratives have combined to produce a formidable political force. This enlightening monograph will appeal to undergraduates and postgraduates, as well as postdoctoral researchers, interested in fields such as Politics, Political Theory and Sociology. It will also be relevant to those curious about contemporary Spanish politics, the nature of populism, the future of the European left, or Carl Schmitt and his links with Spain.

Online Discourses of Performative Democracy

Online Discourses of Performative Democracy
Author: Irene Rapado
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2022
Genre: Democracy
ISBN: 9781350276802

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"In the late 2000s, a wave of new movement parties swept Southern Europe as a reaction to the implementation of austerity measures and the crisis of political legitimacy in the aftermath of the global economic recession. These new political organizations found inspiration in, and capitalized on, preceding social movements, challenging the traditional separation between institutional and contentious politics. Inspired by the 15-M movement, Podemos emerged in Spain as a case of performative democracy. That is, as a hybrid political organization that enacted democracy in its attempt to both undertake and to 'live' a certain political experiment. Channelled through online media, this book examines Podemos' discourses of performative democracy in the run-up to, and aftermath of, the Spanish December 2015 general election, which led to it becoming part of the political establishment. In so doing, the book applies an interdisciplinary approach bringing together insights from political science, media and communication studies, and social movement studies. Drawing on the discourse-historical approach of critical discourse analysis, this book contributes to the understanding of left-wing populist discourse in Spain and beyond by presenting a systematic and flexible method to the study of Podemos' online discourses and its various multimodal features."--

For the People

For the People
Author: Jorge Tamames
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2020-07-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781912064441

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Focusing on left populist movements in Spain and the US, this book uses the work of Polanyi, Laclau and Mouffe to analyse today's left populism. The book traces left movements from the early days of neoliberalism in the 1970s, through the landslides that followed the 2008 financial crisis and the post-2011 protest cycle, up to the present day.

Spanish Politics

Spanish Politics
Author: Óscar García Agustín
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-05-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781350304093

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Here, Oscar Garcia Augustin and Paolo Cossarini analyse the recent history of the Spanish body-politic, with special reference to the populism and polarization that have taken over politics in the country since the enormous turbulence of the 2008 global financial crisis. The financial and economic crisis gave birth first to anti-austerity movements and a subsequent left-wing populist party, and then to a series of socio-political ruptures that have reconfigured politics permanently in Europe's fifth largest economy. Topics covered include an assessment of the Catalan march towards independence, the reconfiguration of Spain's party system, the rise of far-right groups, increased feminist and equality activism, municipalism, and a growing environmentalist movement. The authors, both experts on populism as well as Spain's political system, reflect on these aspects of the current Spanish situation in order to provide a comprehensive socio-political overview of 21st century Spain.

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Politics

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Politics
Author: Jonathan Evans
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 131721949X

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The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Politics presents the first comprehensive, state of the art overview of the multiple ways in which ‘politics’ and ‘translation’ interact. Divided into four sections with thirty-three chapters written by a roster of international scholars, this handbook covers the translation of political ideas, the effects of political structures on translation and interpreting, the politics of translation and an array of case studies that range from the Classical Mediterranean to contemporary China. Considering established topics such as censorship, gender, translation under fascism, translators and interpreters at war, as well as emerging topics such as translation and development, the politics of localization, translation and interpreting in democratic movements, and the politics of translating popular music, the handbook offers a global and interdisciplinary introduction to the intersections between translation and interpreting studies and politics. With a substantial introduction and extensive bibliographies, this handbook is an indispensable resource for students and researchers of translation theory, politics and related areas.

Radical Journalism

Radical Journalism
Author: Seamus Farrell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2023-03-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000855708

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This edited volume offers a state-of-the-art synthesis of the historical role of radical journalism, its present iterations, and plans for the future of a journalism that is committed to liberatory movements and politics. At a time of profound crisis and stagnation for mainstream journalism, radical journalism seems to be riding a wave. New outlets, including those – like Jacobin – with a global reach, have sprung up, presenting a new generation of unapologetically progressive publications with an emancipatory agenda. Understanding the role and place of radical journalism becomes even more urgent given the current political climate in a (post) pandemic world with heightened inequalities and intensified pauperisation. Drawing on contributions from leading academics, this collection considers: • How new outlets fit in the genealogy of (radical) journalism and what their flourishing can tell us about the present and future of emancipatory politics and the role of the radical journalist; • What these new forms and publications mean for mainstream journalism and its persisting problems of financial sustainability and professional journalistic labour; • Important challenges presented by, for example, the resurgence of fascism, authoritarianism and the mainstreaming of the far right; • Essential questions of what radical journalism looks like today, what forms it takes or should take, and what its future might be. Radical Journalism is recommended reading for advanced students and journalists working at the intersection of journalism, politics, and sociology.