The Indignados of Spain: A Precedent to Occupy Wall Street
The Indignados of Spain: A Precedent to Occupy Wall Street
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DOI：
10.1080/14742837.2012.708830
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发表时间：
2012-01-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Castaneda, Ernesto
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作者：
Castaneda, Ernesto
2011年5月，面对经济危机，人们走上街头，在西班牙各地的城市广场安营扎寨。在即将到来的选举中，许多公民认为没有提供真正的替代经济和社会政策，也没有可能投票支持以优先考虑人民关切的方式处理危机的政府方案，因此许多人在即将到来的选举中普遍感到沮丧、愤怒和无能为力，从而成功地动员了许多人。在网上的讨论中，忧心忡忡的参与者积极呼吁“现在就有真正的民主”，这代表了普通西班牙公民的关切和优先事项。为了让人们看到他们的不满，他们呼吁人们一起露营并“占领”公共空间，以迫使政客和精英们面对普遍的对可怕的经济前景的不满。本文建立在2011年夏天对西班牙巴塞罗那的Indignados运动的非参与者观察的基础上。它着眼于巩固“占领”运动有争议的表现，以抗议收入不平等和经济政策。它认为，这场运动是美国占领华尔街运动的直接先例。5月15日的运动表明，不仅北非人民有理由走上街头采取集体行动，而且发达国家的许多公民也有理由走上公共广场，表达他们对经济和政治现状的不满。
Faced with an economic crisis, people took to the streets and camped in urban plazas throughout Spain in May 2011. Many people were successfully mobilized by a generalized sense of frustration, indignation and impotency in the face of coming elections where many citizens felt there were no real alternative economic and social policies offered, nor the possibility to vote for government programmes that would deal with the crisis in a way that prioritized the concerns of the population. In online discussions, concerned proactive participants called for 'A Real Democracy Now' that represented the concerns and priorities of regular Spanish citizens. In order to make their discontent visible, they called for people to camp and 'occupy' public spaces together in order to force politicians and elites to face the generalized discontent with the dire economic prospects. This paper builds on non-participant observation of the Indignados movement in Barcelona, Spain, conducted in the summer of 2011. It looks at the consolidation of the 'occupy' contentious performance to protest income inequality and economic policy. It argues that this movement is a direct precedent to the Occupy Wall Street movement in the USA. The 15 May movement showed that not only people in North Africa had reasons to take the streets and engage in collective action, but many citizens in the developed world also had reasons to take public squares and show their dissatisfaction with the economic and political status quo.