Las raíces del movimiento 15 m. Orden social e indignación moral

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This paper analyzesanalyses one of the most interesting movements that arose since the end of oppositional movements to Franco’s dictatorship in the late seventies. Our approach to the May 15th Movement is grounded in eld-work techniques, focuses on frame analysis and emphasizes the social re exivity of this movement, its non-partisan character and its nonviolent nature. We also highlight the continuities between this movement and a civic one which promoted a new protest cycle since the mid-nineties, as a response of prominent civic organizations to the Basque’s nationalist terrorism, that we have recently investigated (2005- 2010). Such continuities also come from two relevant American movements of the 1960s, the civil rights and the student New Left movement, which also arose in search for real forms of democracy. We also highlight this movement’s social re exivity, its denitional potential of serious social problems in citizens’ everyday life, its nonpartisan and nonviolent nature, as well as its internal order during its occupation of the center of Madrid. Such mobilizations and a wise use of social networks were the means through which the movement’s frame was di used