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Flesher Fominaya's study can be warmly welcomed as one written by an international authority on social movements and Spanish politics. Its combination of ethnographic fieldwork, first hand observation, critical analysis and deep theoretical understanding of the issues raised by these events marks it out as a landmark study. Indeed it is and will be the core resource for understanding 15M and this extraordinary political moment for many years to come. -Simon Tormey, University of Bristol Democracy Reloaded will quickly become, and for a long time should remain, the definitive work on the topic of the Spanish M-15 social movement, and the origins of Podemos. The book is a model of sensitive and sophisticated scholar-activist interpretation, with a depth of nuance and flexibility of analysis that are rare and that will serve us well. -John Foran, University of California, Santa Barbara Focusing on Spain as a laboratory of interactions between contentious and institutional politics, Flesher Fominaya offers a most interesting analysis of the ways in which progressive social movements can effectively reload democracies going from prefiguration to institutional changes. -Donatella della Porta, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence

Flesher Fominaya's study can be warmly welcomed as one written by an international authority on social movements and Spanish politics. Its combination of ethnographic fieldwork, first hand observation, critical analysis and deep theoretical understanding of the issues raised by these events marks it out as a landmark study. Indeed it is and will be the core resource for understanding 15M and this extraordinary political moment for many years to come. -Simon Tormey, University of Bristol Democracy Reloaded will quickly become, and for a long time should remain, the definitive work on the topic of the Spanish M-15 social movement, and the origins of Podemos. The book is a model of sensitive and sophisticated scholar-activist interpretation, with a depth of nuance and flexibility of analysis that are rare and that will serve us well. -John Foran, University of California, Santa Barbara Focusing on Spain as a laboratory of interactions between contentious and institutional politics, Flesher Fominaya offers a most interesting analysis of the ways in which progressive social movements can effectively reload democracies going from prefiguration to institutional changes. -Donatella della Porta, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence

"""What the book ultimately provides is a powerful antidote to the bleak and uncertain present, not by indulging in the nostalgic contemplation of days past, but by examining still unexplored political horizons and potentials."" -- Vincente Rubio-Pueyo, Public Books ""It is an ambitious book, offering a continuous vision of the 15-M protests that integrates their context and precedents, as well as their crystallization into new political formations. The bottom line is to understand that protests do not have definitive limits in either their beginnings or their dissolutions; they contain moments of singularity."" -- Josep Lobera, Autonomous University of Madrid, Mobilization: An International Quarterly ""Flesher Fominaya's study can be warmly welcomed as one written by an international authority on social movements and Spanish politics. Its combination of ethnographic fieldwork, first hand observation, critical analysis and deep theoretical understanding of the issues raised by these events marks it out as a landmark study. Indeed it is and will be the core resource for understanding 15M and this extraordinary political moment for many years to come."" -Simon Tormey, University of Bristol ""Democracy Reloaded will quickly become, and for a long time should remain, the definitive work on the topic of the Spanish M-15 social movement, and the origins of Podemos. The book is a model of sensitive and sophisticated scholar-activist interpretation, with a depth of nuance and flexibility of analysis that are rare and that will serve us well."" -John Foran, University of California, Santa Barbara ""Focusing on Spain as a laboratory of interactions between contentious and institutional politics, Flesher Fominaya offers a most interesting analysis of the ways in which progressive social movements can effectively reload democracies going from prefiguration to institutional changes."" -Donatella della Porta, Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence"

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Cristina Flesher Fominaya is Professor of Global Studies at Aarhus University and an internationally recognized expert in European social movements and politics. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. She is Editor in Chief of the journal Social Movement Studies, cofounder of open access Interface Journal, author of Social Movements in a Globalized World (2nd ed), and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary European Social Movements (2020). She has published widely on social movements, democracy, and Spanish and European politics in English and Spanish.

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