In this article I compare the different forms of participation
of young anti-capitalists in two post-15M Spanish social movements in
Lleida: White Tide and Platform of those Affected by Mortgages. The
objective of the article is to analyze how biopolitical normalization processes work within social movements themselves. The article explains
the normalization processes that adult activists exercise against young
anti-capitalists, and the ways in which young people resist and seek to
break with ...
In this article I compare the different forms of participation
of young anti-capitalists in two post-15M Spanish social movements in
Lleida: White Tide and Platform of those Affected by Mortgages. The
objective of the article is to analyze how biopolitical normalization processes work within social movements themselves. The article explains
the normalization processes that adult activists exercise against young
anti-capitalists, and the ways in which young people resist and seek to
break with these processes in post-15M movements. All this allows us
to understand how this normalization affects current social movements,
establishing what is seen to be the ‘correct’ way to be an activist and creating processes of marginalization and censorship of those activists who
occupy non-hegemonic social positions and who use other political forms.
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