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Author Moreno Caballud, Luis, author.

Title Cultures of anyone : studies on cultural democratization in the Spanish neoliberal crisis / Luis Moreno-Caballud ; translated by Linda Grabner.

Publication Info. Liverpool : Liverpool Univiversity Press, 2015.
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 305 pages).
Series Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures ; [11]
Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures ; 11.
Summary Cultures of Anyone studies the emergence of collaborative and non-hierarchical cultures in the context of the Spanish economic crisis of 2008. It explains how peer-to-peer social networks that have arisen online and through social movements such as the Indignados have challenged a longstanding cultural tradition of intellectual elitism and capitalist technocracy in Spain. From the establishment of a technocratic and consumerist culture during the second part of the Franco dictatorship to the transition to neoliberalism that accompanied the 'transition to democracy', intellectuals and 'experts' have legitimized contemporary Spanish history as a series of unavoidable steps in a process of 'modernization'. But when unemployment skyrocketed and a growing number of people began to feel that the consequences of this Spanish 'modernization' had increasingly led to precariousness, this paradigm collapsed. In the wake of Spain's financial meltdown of 2008, new 'cultures of anyone' have emerged around the idea that the people affected by or involved in a situation should be the ones to participate in changing it. Growing through grassroots social movements, digital networks, and spaces traditionally reserved for 'high culture' and institutional politics, these cultures promote processes of empowerment and collaborative learning that allow the development of the abilities and knowledge base of 'anyone', regardless of their economic status or institutional affiliations.
This book focuses on the rise of sharing and collaboration practices among peers in Spanish digital cultures and social movements in the wake of Spain's financial meltdown of 2008.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cultural aspects of the neoliberal crisis: genealogies of a fractured legitimacy -- 'Standardizing' from above: experts, intellectuals, and culture bubble -- Arrested modernities: the popular cultures that could have been -- Internet cultures as collaborative creation of value -- Combining the abilities of all the anyones: the 15M movement and its mutations -- Towards more democratic cultural institutions?.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Democracy -- Spain -- History -- 21st century.
Political participation -- Spain -- 21st century.
Neoliberalism -- Spain.
Spain -- Civilization -- 21st century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Spain & Portugal.
Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
Democracy. (OCoLC)fst00890077
Neoliberalism. (OCoLC)fst01737382
Political participation. (OCoLC)fst01069386
Spain. (OCoLC)fst01204303
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Added Author Grabner-Coronel, Linda L., translator.
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