Héloïse Nez’s research while affiliated with University of Tours and other places

... This testimonial register, by definition accessible to all, is situated at the core of the mobilising potential of avoidance practices. As has already been demonstrated by studies of other post-2011 occupation movements (Smaoui 2017;Nez 2017Nez , 2018Guionnet and Wieviorka 2021), people were able to join this movement and remain in it without fear of stigmatisation or humiliation over any personal political incompetence or lack of advocacy skills, and during the course of their participation, they gradually became a political subject. ...

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Becoming political while avoiding politics: a study of Yellow Vests first-timers

... However, the global upsurge of mobilizations in late 2010 sparked substantial interest in the fate of the activists who participated in those waves of protest. This led to a proliferation of new studies on political disengagement (Beauchesne and Vairel, 2021;Menshawy and Al-Anani, 2021;Nez, 2021;Prado Galán and Fersch, 2021;Vacchiano and Afailal, 2021). Meanwhile, the literature on extremist organizations and political violence saw numerous new studies exploring activists' pathways to political disengagement (Bjørgo, 2011;Blee, 2016;Bosi, 2019;Della Porta, 2009;Horgan, 2009). ...

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Disengaging from political activism: A critical review of the literature

... Within that literature on everyday speech, some scholars have focused on political talk among ordinary people, encompassing discussions in all sorts of spaces, whether private, with friends, on the Internet, or in formal settings (Jacobs et al., 2009;Mutz, 2006;Perrin, 2006;Walsh, 2003). Others focus on town hall meetings and accountability -namely on spaces where ordinary citizens can hold their representatives accountable (Gourgues et al., 2021;Neblo et al., 2010Neblo et al., , 2018Parthasarathy et al., 2019;Talpin, 2011). ...

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Habits of Democracy: Mores, Practices, and Neighborhood Meetings in Paris

... The election in 2015 of Ahora Madrid, a left-wing, citizen-driven, municipalist political party (Gonick 2016;Ordóñez, Feenstra, and Franks 2018), represented a significant shift in the political landscape of Madrid, a city known for its longstanding conservative orientation (Vaz 2019). In this context, agroecological and other urban social movements were provided with more opportunities to participate in urban affairs (Nez 2019), but were also generally more inclined to collaborate with the urban administration. Indeed, the Spanish municipalist turn is based on ideals of direct democracy and a revival of local public control over urban issues relegated to the private sphere (Martínez and Wissink, 2022). ...

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Compromise in the making of urban agroecology: grassroots initiatives and the politics of experimentation in Madrid, Spain

... Au-delà de l'enjeu démocratique de participation, les recherches en sociologie urbaine tentent par exemple de comprendre dans quelle mesure l'expérience de vie des usagers dans les quartiers peut les amener à développer une forme d'expertise utile et complémentaire à celle des experts professionnels (architectes, urbanistes) et des politiques élus souvent considérés comme plus légitimes. Comme le soulignent Nez et Sintomer (2013), la considération reste « inégale entre ceux qui sont porteurs (…) de savoirs reconnus et certifiés, et ceux qui ne peuvent mettre en avant que leur vécu du quotidien. » (p. ...

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De l’expérience à l’expertise2 - Savoirs expérientiels des consommateurs en situation de handicap pour la co-conception

... In turn, its participants are known as the indignados. The 15-M Movement was as heterogeneous as the Italian Pitchforks and actively functioned in the whole state, often by organizing mass protests (Galais and Lorenzini 2017;Nez 2016b). ...

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Conclusions and Discussion on the Limitations of the Research

... In 2011, activists and residents in Spain took over public squares to call for social reform and political transformation in what was referred to as the 'Indignados' or 15 May movement (15 M movement). This movement shifted from large demonstrations and occupations to address neighbourhood-level issues, largely concerning housing and social solidarity (Dufour et al. 2016). During COVID-19, a racial justice group in Spain used the 15 M method to bring to light the unequal effects and consequences of the pandemic. ...

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Critical hope and responses to pandemics

... This aligns with Fishman's (2011) view of the legacy of Portugal's social revolution, which may foster a stronger inclination to include the voices of the powerless and increase the permeability of institutional power holders to their claims -principles central to PBs (Fung and Wright, 2003;Avritzer, 2006). For mini-publics, Spain's commitment to deliberative democracy, fuelled by the indignados movement (Nez and Ganuza, 2018;Flesher Fominaya and Feenstra, 2023;Ganuza and Ramos, 2024), may explain the higher diffusion of CAs there compared to Portugal. Nonetheless, Spain continues to host a greater number of PBs, even as Portugal had higher ratings in the 2010s. ...

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Changing the status quo through democratic innovations? Three paradoxes from the Iberian Peninsula

... 4 On anti-austerity protests and the 15M, see Ancelovici (2015) and Ancelovici et al. (2016). ...

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When Movements Change Policies: Popular Legislative Initiatives in Favor of Housing Rights in Spain

... Focusing on the past half-century, the work of historians and sociologists has demonstrated the influence of young people at key turning points in history, for instance, during both the civil rights movement in the United States and the 1968 movement around the world (Bantigny and Jablonka, 2009;Lewis, 2009). More recently, the occupations of public squares and the Indignados movement in Spain have drawn scholarly attention to such relationships Nez and Dufour, 2017) and especially regarding student protests (Bessant et al., 2021). ...

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Young People’s Political Discourse: Voice, Efficacy and Impact