Eduardo Romanos

Complutense University of Madrid | UCM · Departamento de Sociología Aplicada

This article analyses the role played by Spanish immigrants in the diffusion of the indignados movement in Occupy Wall Street (OWS). I argue that Spanish residents in New York City acted as brokers between the two movements, and that their behaviour had a significant impact on OWS’s understanding of itself as an expansive, inclusive and empathic ph...

Este artículo compara la difusión de la primavera árabe al movimiento 15M con la de este último a Occupy Wall Street. La comparación muestra que el contenido y el canal de la difusión fueron diferentes en uno y otro proceso. Los indignados españoles recibieron de la primavera árabe un sentido de eficacia de la acción colectiva a través fundamentalm...

In the context of the new period of mobilization begun in Spain with the rise of the indignados in May 2011, protests against home evictions are today at the center of local and international discussions. This article seeks to make an initial examination of these mobilizations and their relationship with routine politics in Spain. After a brief his...

This chapter explores the relationship between the indignados movement in Madrid and other mobilizations that have arisen at the local level in recent years. It suggests the existence of a learning process which on the basis of certain collective experiences, both failed and successful, links past mobilizations with the construction of an inclusive...

This article studies the reactivation of activist networks in high-risk settings through a longitudinal analysis of the emotional practices of Spanish anarchists under Franco's dictatorship (1939–75). The anarchists mobilised a series of emotions in their discourse, seeking to change the degree and quality of emotions among potential supporters in...

Social movements studies have analyzed how the protest affects the electoral agenda and the outcome of elections. Here, we reverse this approach and analyze whether the electoral cycle affects the protest. With the aid of a new dataset that contains all the demonstrations and marches in Spain from 2000 to 2020 (N = 2,255), we test whether the size...

RESUMEN El objetivo de esta nota de investigación es realizar un análisis de acontecimientos de protesta en la España de 2020, pero insertándolo en un estudio longitudinal más amplio (2000-2020), con el fin de discutir hasta qué punto la acción colectiva se ha transformado durante la pandemia del COVID-19. El estudio aborda, a partir de una base de...

The Indignados movement was a protest movement that emerged in Spain in May 2011 as part of an extensive cycle of contention against austerity policies, the corruption of political authorities, and the democratic deficiencies of the Spanish political system. In turn, the mobilization of the Spanish Indignados was set in the context of a transnation...

Anarchism refers to a tradition of social and political thought that in the 1860s emerged as an organized political force. Since then, anarchism has inspired protests, organizations, and movements, mainly in Europe, Russia, and the Americas, but also in other parts of the world. While it may be difficult to talk of “one” anarchist movement, a disti...

The 15-M mobilizations shook Spanish society and placed the demand for ‘real democracy’ at the center of political debate. In order to better understand the scope and impact of the Indignados’ democratizing endeavors, this article aims to address an issue that has not received much attention: the connection of this protest cycle with the political...

Social inequality is a central theme in sociology study plans (both in research and education), but it is often one of the most difficult topics to teach. This article presents an innovative student-centered strategy for teaching social inequality that uses a survey to collect data on students’ socioeconomic characteristics and perceptions of inequ...

This article provides an overview of contentious politics in 21st century Spain using Protest Event Analysis (PEA) based on a large new database (n = 4,062). The analysis identifies different cycles of protest and discusses how they have changed and been continued in the action taken by social movements. While protest before the Great Recession oft...

Este artículo explora la evolución de la contienda política en la España del siglo xxi a través de un análisis de acontecimientos de protesta (Protest Event Analysis) basado en una nueva y amplia base de datos (n = 4.062). El análisis permite distinguir diversos ciclos de protesta y discutir cambios y continuidades en la acción de los movimientos s...

Neste artigo, são descritos e analisados os ciclos de protesto em Portugal e Espanha no início do século XXI. Considerando que a possibilidade de exercer o direito à dissensão na esfera pública constitui não apenas um dos elementos caracterizadores da democracia, mas igualmente um fator do seu fortalecimento, esta análise compara os ciclos de prote...

‘Disobedient Democracy: A Comparative Analysis of Contentious Politics in the European Semi-periphery’ is a research project implemented by the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zagreb, in the period 2016-2021, led by Principal Investigator Danijela Dolenec and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (IZ11Z0_166540 – PROMYS)...

This article examines international anarchism after 1945 by focusing on two networks particularly active in Western Europe: a network of young anarchists critical of the ineffectiveness of their respective national anarchist federations, and a network of libertarian publications which spread the work of a set of intellectuals critical of the tradit...

La protesta no se distribuye aleatoriamente en el tiempo, sino que se concentra en forma de ciclos. Los últimos tres grandes ciclos internacionales de protesta han sido los surgidos alrededor del 68, el movimiento antiglobalización en el cambio de milenio y la reciente movilización por la democracia y contra la austeridad a partir de 2010. Este art...

RESUMEN El análisis de las consecuencias de los movimientos sociales ha sido relegado a un segundo plano hasta hace poco tiempo. Los escasos estudios comparativos realizados sobre el tema han arrojado, además, con-clusiones dispares. Problemas de indefinición conceptual y la aplicación de metodologías distintas pueden explicar, entre otras razones,...

This volume addresses long-term effects of democratic transitions on social movements in Italy, Greece, Portugal, and Spain. From the theoretical point of view, the main focus of reflection is on the long-term impact of eventful moments on social movements, especially the causal mechanisms through which legacies and memories of transformative prote...

In May 2011, the so-called Indignados movement emerged in Spain, the mobilizing capacity, visibility and impact of which had no precedent in the country’s recent history. Activists demanded that authorities reverse the cuts in public services and civil rights, strengthen mechanisms of control and transparency, and create new channels of citizens’ a...

This book analyses protests against the Great Recession in the European periphery. While social movements have long been considered as children of affluent times - or at least of times of opening opportunities - these protests defy such expectations, developing instead in moments of diminishing opportunities in both the economic and the political r...

This article examines the relationship between social movements' digital democratic innovations and political parties through a case study based on the involvement of 15M activists in the creation and development of new political parties in Spain. By analyzing the impact of certain technological activist groups on the implementation of the movement...

This article explores the relationship between humor and protest through a study of the strategic use of humor in the Spanish indignados movement. By focusing on four forms of communication (placards, performances, internal documents and Internet communications) in Madrid in 2011, the article assesses the subversive potential of humor in the commun...

El movimiento 15M se caracterizaba, entre otras cosas, por una fuerte crítica a los partidos políticos y el sistema actual de representación política. Sin embargo, el ciclo de movilización ha derivado en un proceso de institucionalización creciente y complejo en el que los activistas del movimiento han participado de manera relativamente visible y...

The Spanish 15M movement (also known as the Indignados) was very critical of political parties and the current system of political representation. However, the protest cycle has evolved into a growing and complex process of institutionalization in which activist have been participating in the creation and development of a number of new parties (Par...

This paper compares and contrasts the 15M movement in Spain (los indignados) with the Occupy Wall Street movement in the United States. We examine the class and social background and the grievances and concerns of the protesters in each country. We also examine the external and cross-border influences on each movement, public opinion toward each mo...

This chapter examines the cross-national transfer of radical tactics in conflict-generated transnational social movements between diaspora communities and their communities of origin. It does this through a comparison across time of two processes of diffusion of radicalization in the Spanish anarchist movement, which after being defeated in the Spa...

The media have stressed the element of indignation and this is how the movement that emerged from the camps in Madrid and other Spanish cities has become known internationally, the indignados. The activists, however, prefer to call themselves the 15M movement in honor of the date that was the starting gun for the movement. Indignation is, without a...

Published in Books & Ideas, Dossier: Debates en torno al 15M, 18-11-2011. Este artículo trata de situar al movimiento conocido como 15M en el debate en torno a los movimientos sociales como agentes de democratización (en el sentido de avance y perfeccionamiento de la democracia). Nuestra intención es incorporar a la discusión abierta en este dossie...

The three most important ruptures in Spanish anarchism in the 20th century (1931, 1945 and 1979) occurred during political transitions towards more open and democratic systems. How did the political context influence these processes of factionalism and rupture? This article attempts to answer this question by means of a qualitative comparison of th...

Previous research has shown that in highly repressive contexts, the emergence and continuity of activism cannot be understood without considering the role of strong subjective, affective and emotional elements. Building on this approach, this article offers a longitudinal analysis of the activism of the first generation of clandestine anarchists un...

The protest movements that followed the Second World War have recently become the object of study for various disciplines; however, the exchange of ideas between research fields, and comparative research in general, is lacking. An international and interdisciplinary dialogue is vital to not only describe the similarities and differences between the...

Diversos trabajos han señalado còmo en contextos altamente represivos el surgimiento y la continuidad del activismo no se entienden sin la intervención de fuertes elementos subjetivos, afectivos y emocionales.Este artículo participa de este enfoque con un análisis longitudinal del activismo de la primera generación de anarquistas clandestinos bajo...

1968 in Europe. A History of Protest and Activism, 1956–1977. Ed. by Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharlot. Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke [etc.]2008 viii, 344 pp. £16.99; - Volume 53 Issue 3 - Eduardo Romanos