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From Social to Political Conference Proceedings(1).Pdf Bilbao Universidad del País Vasco – Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Servicio Editorial = Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2012. ISBN: 978-84-9860-595-2 Depósito Legal / Lege gordailua: BI-142-2012 Benjamín Tejerina and Ignacia Perugorría (editors) Edition: Mikel Azpiri Landa Book cover design: Josu Aguinaga Cueto From Social to Political New Forms of Mobilization and Democratization CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Edited by Benjamín Tejerina and Ignacia Perugorría From Social to Political. New Forms of Mobilization and Democratization. 4 Table of Contents Foreword . 6 Organizing Committee . 7 6FLHQWL¿F&RPPLWWHH . 7 Conference Program . 8 ARAB SPRING . .13 Mobilizing during the Arab Revolutions: Palestinian Youth Speak for Themselves Abeer Musleh (Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University) . .14 Iconography and Contestatory Language in the Arab Protest Moisés Garduño García (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) . .28 Social Media and New Technologies in Egypt and Tunisia: Two Examples of Innovative Forms of Democratization Stefania Perna (University of Reading) . .43 Gdeim Izik. A Change in the Struggle Strategies of the Sahrawi Population Carmen Gómez Martín (EHESS) . .62 15M AND “INDIGNADO” MOBILIZATIONS . .77 Antecedents, Achievements and Challenges of the Spanish Socio-Political Movement 15M Tomás Alberich Nistal (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) . .78 Continuities and Discontinuities in Recent Social Mobilizations. From New Social Movements to the Alter-Global Mobilizations and the 15M Benjamín Tejerina and Ignacia Perugorría (UPV-EHU and Rutgers University) . .93 The Assemblies of 15th May Movement in Cáceres: An Example of Democracy School, a Road to Dialogic Society Borja Rivero Jiménez (Universidad de Extremadura) . 112 Among Militants and Deliberative Laboratories: The Indignados Héloïse Nez (Université Paris 13) . 123 INTERNATIONALIZATION OF PROTESTS . 141 The Notion of the Multitude and Lessons from the Present Cycle of Struggles: The Case of Greece Nikos Sotirakopoulos (University of Kent) . 142 Occupy: A New “New Social Movement” Lauren Langman (Loyola University) . 158 YOUTH AND STUDENT MOBILIZATIONS . 171 The New Wave of Student Mobilizations in Europe Explained as a Fordist-Posfordist Transition Joseba Fernández González (UPV-EHU) . 172 Precarious Present, Uncertain Future: Multiple Dimensions of Precarity as a Symbolic Tool and Resource in the Italian University Mobilization Lorenzo Zamponi (European University Institute) . 186 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS EMOTIONS AND AFFECTS IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS . 203 Transforming the Ominous into Happiness: How Antinuclear Drive was Tamed in the Post-War Japan? Daishiro Nomiya (Sophia University). 204 RETHINKING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS . 217 Aproximación a los movimientos sociales como sujetos de emancipación Zesar Martínez, Beatriz Casado and Pedro Ibarra (UPV-EHU) . 218 6RFLDO0RYHPHQWVLQ3RVW3ROLWLFDO6RFLHW\3UH¿JXUDWLRQ'HOLEHUDWLRQDQG&RQVHQVXV Raphael Schlembach (University of Salford) . 234 ‘Environment and health, yes… but for other reasons’: Asserting Control, Sovereignty and Transgression in Barcelona Isabelle Anguelovski (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona and MIT) . 247 MEDIA AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS . 267 What Really Matters in Creating Mass Mobilization: Classical Organization or New Social Media? A Comparative Case Study of the Mass Mobilization Process in France and South Korea Jeong-Im Hyun (Sogang University) . 268 Twitter and Public Reasoning around Social Contention: The Case of #15ott in Italy Stefania Vicari (University of Leicester) . 281 Protest Politics Through Music in the Basque Country. The Spread of the Lip Dub as a New Form of Collective Action Ion Andoni Del Amo, Jason Diaux and Arkaitz Letamendía (UPV-EHU) . 297 IDENTITY AND PERFORMATIVITY . 313 A Study of Movement Identity on Protest Events: The case of The Protest Against the 2008 Hokkaido Toyako G8 Summit Kyoko Tominaga (University of Tokyo) . 314 Ocup(arte)!: Cultural Engagement in The University of Puerto Rico Student Movement, 2010 Katherine Everhart (Vanderbilt University) . 329 NEOLIBERALISM AND GLOBALIZATION . 347 From the Save Movements to the Live Ones. An Analytical Approach to the Evolution of Social Movements in Valencia in the Last Two Decades Rafael Xambó Olmos and Xavier Ginés Sánchez (Universitat de València) . 348 Social Movements, Civic Society and Globalization in Latin America Ilan Bizberg (El Colegio de México) . 364 From Social to Political. 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