Full Description
One of this book's goals is to evaluate the complex ways that Madrid has served as the political, economic, and cultural capital of the Global South from the end of the Franco dictatorship to the present. The other is to examine the city as lived experience, where citizens contest capital's push to shape urban space in its own image through activities of the imagination.
Scholars, investigative journalists, political activists, and a filmmaker combine to document the vast array of Madrid's grassroots movements.
Contents
Introduction | Madrid as a Capital of the Global South and the Global North: Mapping Competing Cartographies and Spatial Resistance
Silvia Bermúdez and Anthony L. Geist
Part I | Capitalizing on Visual and Literary Cultures, and Challenging Urban Exclusion
1. "Madriz es mucho Madrid": The Capital Role of Graphic Arts in Identity Formation
Anthony L. Geist
2. Rebel Cities: Madrid and the Cultural Contestation of Space
Malcolm Alan Compitello
3. Practices of Oppositional Literacy in the 15-M Movement in Madrid
Jonathan Snyder
4. Acabar Madrid: "Future Perfect" Utopianism and the Possibility of Counter-Neoliberal Urbanization in the Spanish Capital
Eli Evans
5. Trash as Theme and Aesthetic in Elvira Navarro's La trabajadora
Susan Larson
Part II | Sites of Memory
6. Institutional Sites of Remembrance: Monuments and Archives of the 11-M Train Bombings
Jill Robbins
7. The Politics of Public Memory in Madrid Now: From an "Olympic Capital of Impunity" to "Omnia sunt communia?"
Scott Boehm
Part III | Madrid as Lived Experience
8. The Train That Gave Women a Voice
Alicia Luna
9. Madrid Municipal Elections 2015: A Time of Change
Rosa M. Tristán
10. Historical Perspectives: From Madrid as Villa y Corte to After Carmena, What?
Edward Baker
Afterword | Madrid and the Traps of Exceptionality
Estrella de Diego and Luis Martín-Estudillo
Contributors
Index
