{"product_id":"performing-populism-ruben-perez-hidalgo-9780826506108","title":"Performing Populism: Visions of Spanish Politics from 15-M to Podemos","description":"Whether or not it constituted a complete break from the past, the 15-M movement's most important legacy was a more expansive notion of the popular political, one that recognized cultural representation as a mode of political articulation and as part of a political culture. In an effort to understand the populist cycle inaugurated by 15-M, and to do so beyond a series of narrated events, \u003ci\u003ePerforming Populism \u003c\/i\u003esets out to explain Spanish populism in relation to the performances of its visual politics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The book's first part examines how the 15-M movement created a new way of seeing that in turn led to a new way of doing politics in Spain. Part Two focuses on the multiple ramifications of that new vision once the people stopped marching and the movement became less visible. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From electoral posters to fiction films, documentaries, and internet memes, \u003ci\u003ePerforming Populism \u003c\/i\u003etraces the ways that collective Spanish identities evolved from a period when \"the people\" seemed to have been willingly subsumed under the apathetic ideation of the middle-class consumer to the moment in 2011 when a crisis of representation forced many into political consciousness. This rude awakening kickstarted the reconstruction of a Spanish \"us\" that staged exhibitions of popular will on par with and parallel to the Arab Spring, but in a European register that embraced the countercultural through art that disremembered its political past but could not escape the ghostly shadow of its history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ruben Perez Hidalgo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0826506100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826506108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vanderbilt University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 270\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Ruben Perez Hidalgo","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44190543118591,"sku":"9780826506108","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5acc2e3d-7eea-4df3-b08e-32f0622169e1.jpg?v=1690871103","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/performing-populism-ruben-perez-hidalgo-9780826506108","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}