Spain: The evolution of Civil Society’s mobilisation since 15M
1 Introduction
A well-known Spanish saying reads “After a storm comes a calm”, which is used to describe marine cycles, and also to popularly define going from very intense (and sometimes complex) times to other calmer ones. In this case, we can employ the above-cited saying to define a change in the social mobilisation context in Spain, and to describe going from a period of civil society’s frenetic and frenzied activity to one of calm and certain paralysis (but not the disappearance) of mobilisation.
The Spanish political context is marked by being a relatively young democracy. After a 36-year dictatorship (1939–1975) and a period ...
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