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Cristina Flesher Fominaya

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We are happy to have Cristina with us speaking to her background and current work. Cristina shares her views and relationship to activism and, as a scholar, the importance of balancing sympathy with a critical, analytical and self-reflexive research lens. What can an ethnographic perspective bring different than other research methods? What is the difference of applying ethnographic research to activist spaces vs others? What is the value of a conference space and why should you invest in physical attendance? Lastly as a key note of the Why the World needs Anthropologists, Mobilizing the planet she shares how she will be contributing   to the theme as well as her advice and thoughts to those considering to attend. Listen to the episode to hear more about it.Cristina Flesher Fominaya is a co-founder of the open-access social movements journal Interface and Editor-in-Chief of SocialMovement Studies. She holds an MA and a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. Cristina publishes widely on politics, social movements and democracy in both academic and media outlets. Her three most recent books are Democracy Reloaded: Inside Spain’s Political Laboratory from 15-M to Podemos (Oxford University Press); Social Movements in a Globalized World (Palgrave Macmillan/Red Globe); and The Handbook of Contemporary European Social Movements: Protest in Turbulent Times (Routledge).Mentioned:Why the World needs Anthropology, Mobilizing the Planet https://www.applied-anthropology.com/speaker/cristina-flesher-fominaya/Media :Check Cristina Flesher Fominaya’s profile at academia.edu and Google Scholar ProfileRecommended reading – all open-access PDF: Collective Identity in Social Movements: Central Concepts and DebatesFeminism, women´s movements and women in movementRedeﬁning the Crisis/ Redeﬁning Democracy: Mobilising for the Right to Housing in Spain’s PAH MovementCreating Cohesion from Diversity: The Challenge of Collective Identity Formation in the Global Justice Movement

We are happy to have Cristina with us speaking to her background and current work. Cristina shares her views and relationship to activism and, as a scholar, the importance of balancing sympathy with a critical, analytical and self-reflexive research lens. What can an ethnographic perspective bring different than other research methods? What is the difference of applying ethnographic research to activist spaces vs others? What is the value of a conference space and why should you invest in physical attendance? Lastly as a key note of the Why the World needs Anthropologists, Mobilizing the planet she shares how she will be contributing   to the theme as well as her advice and thoughts to those considering to attend. Listen to the episode to hear more about it. Cristina Flesher Fominaya is a co-founder of the open-access social movements journal <a href="https://www.interfacejournal.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Interface</a> and Editor-in-Chief of <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/current" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SocialMovement Studies</a>. She holds an MA and a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. Cristina publishes widely on politics, social movements and democracy in both academic and media outlets. Her three most recent books are <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/democracy-reloaded-9780190099978?prevNumResPerPage=20&amp;prevSortField=1&amp;resultsPerPage=20&amp;sortField=1&amp;start=60&amp;lang=en&amp;cc=us" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Democracy Reloaded: Inside Spain’s Political Laboratory from 15-M to Podemos</a> (Oxford University Press); <a href="https://www.macmillanihe.com/page/detail/Social-Movements-in-a-Globalized-World/?K=9781352009347" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Social Movements in a Globalized World</a> (Palgrave Macmillan/Red Globe); and <a href="https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Contemporary-European-Social-Movements-Protest-in/Flesher-Fominaya-Feenstra/p/book/9781138494930" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Handbook of Contemporary European Social Movements: Protest in Turbulent Times</a> (Routledge).Mentioned:Why the World needs Anthropology, Mobilizing the Planet <a href="https://www.applied-anthropology.com/speaker/cristina-flesher-fominaya/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.applied-anthropology.com/speaker/cristina-flesher-fominaya/</a>Media :Check Cristina Flesher Fominaya’s profile at <a href="https://lboro.academia.edu/CristinaFlesherFominaya" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">academia.edu</a> and <a href="https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=6YIK1ngAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;authuser=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Google Scholar Profile</a>Recommended reading – all open-access PDF: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/615452/Collective_Identity_in_Social_Movements_Central_Concepts_and_Debates" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Collective Identity in Social Movements: Central Concepts and Debates</a><a href="https://www.academia.edu/2807185/Feminism_women_s_movements_and_women_in_movement" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Feminism, women´s movements and women in movement</a><a href="https://www.academia.edu/13438388/Redefining_the_Crisis_Redefining_Democracy_Mobilising_for_the_Right_to_Housing_in_Spains_PAH_Movement" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Redeﬁning the Crisis/ Redeﬁning Democracy: Mobilising for the Right to Housing in Spain’s PAH Movement</a><a href="https://www.academia.edu/575803/Creating_Cohesion_from_Diversity_The_Challenge_of_Collective_Identity_Formation_in_the_Global_Justice_Movement_" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Creating Cohesion from Diversity: The Challenge of Collective Identity Formation in the Global Justice Movement</a>

Cristina Flesher Fominaya: Sociologist, scholar &  keynote speaker at the Why the World needs Anthropologists, Mobilizing the Planet

10 years ago in 2011, Spain went through a crisis of representation. Until then, Spain had been praised as exceptional for its peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy in the late 1970’s. Yet with the arrival of economic problems, that soon changed. On an international scale, the world was still struggling in the aftermath of the 2007-8 financial crisis. The Great Recession had begun.  In Europe, the Eurozone debt crisis was underway. By 2011, Greece and Ireland had already had their first bailouts and at the beginning of the year Spain’s neighbour Portugal would also request help from the EU as it could not meet the targets it was set. Spain would be next. Struggling with the growing economic crisis, the PSOE government, led by Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, would make unpopular reforms to both the labour laws and pension system in late 2010. In the wake of the Arab Spring, Spain started to mobilise against what a good deal of people felt was an unrepresentative democracy, heavily dominated by the Popular Party and the PSOE. Small groups protesting specific issues from the young who felt they had not future to the elderly fighting pension reforms, these movements would soon start organising together for a more representative and participatory democracy. Come May 15th 2011, a huge protest through the centre of Madrid made up of these groups, would kick start the biggest political changes in the country since the transition. The 15-M movement was born.In this episode of The Sobremesa Podcast, I talk with Cristina Flesher Fominaya, the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Social Movement Studies, co-founder of the open access social movements journal Interface, and author of the book Democracy Reloaded: Inside Spain’s Political Laboratory from 15-M to Podemos. Here we talk about how the 15-M Movement came about, what they were doing in the Sol camp, and how it would change the political landscape that we have come to know today.

10 years ago in 2011, Spain went through a crisis of representation. Until then, Spain had been praised as exceptional for its peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy in the late 1970’s. Yet with the arrival of economic problems, that soon changed. On an international scale, the world was still struggling in the aftermath of the 2007-8 financial crisis. The Great Recession had begun. In Europe, the Eurozone debt crisis was underway. By 2011, Greece and Ireland had already had their first bailouts and at the beginning of the year Spain’s neighbour Portugal would also request help from the EU as it could not meet the targets it was set. Spain would be next. Struggling with the growing economic crisis, the PSOE government, led by Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, would make unpopular reforms to both the labour laws and pension system in late 2010. In the wake of the Arab Spring, Spain started to mobilise against what a good deal of people felt was an unrepresentative democracy, heavily dominated by the Popular Party and the PSOE. Small groups protesting specific issues from the young who felt they had not future to the elderly fighting pension reforms, these movements would soon start organising together for a more representative and participatory democracy. Come May 15th 2011, a huge protest through the centre of Madrid made up of these groups, would kick start the biggest political changes in the country since the transition. The 15-M movement was born. In this episode of The Sobremesa Podcast, I talk with Cristina Flesher Fominaya, the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Social Movement Studies, co-founder of the open access social movements journal Interface, and author of the book Democracy Reloaded: Inside Spain’s Political Laboratory from 15-M to Podemos. Here we talk about how the 15-M Movement came about, what they were doing in the Sol camp, and how it would change the political landscape that we have come to know today.

Episode 25: 15-M, 10 Years On: In conversation with Cristina Flesher Fominaya on her recent book Democracy Reloaded: Inside Spain’s Political Laboratory from 15-M to Podemos