Del 15M al giro electoralista. Proyectos espaciales y fetiches políticos en las estrategias de acción colectiva

Abstract

This article strives to contribute to the debate on how and why a large sector of Spanish activism has shifted to institutional politics after the 15M or Indignados movement. Since 2014 there has been a transition from protest and social contestation, i.e. autonomous and self-managed activism, towards politically conventional participation within the realm of political parties and electoral candidacies. Strategic changes within the protest cycle started in 2011 with the burst of the 15M respond to the tension between two reference frameworks and two alternative spatial projects. These projects drive to antagonistic tendecies towards the fetishization of the State and the fetishization of the community. Drawn on semi-structured interviews and analysis of social movements and political organisation documents, it concludes that autonomist practices are the basis for a shift on the institutions in a context of crisis.