TY - BOOK AU - Moreno Caballud,Luis AU - Grabner-Coronel,Linda L. ED - Project Muse. TI - Cultures of Anyone : : Studies on Cultural Democratization in the Spanish Neoliberal Crisis / T2 - Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone cultures SN - 9781781382035 PY - 2015/// CY - Liverpool PB - Liverpool Univiversity Press KW - Political participation KW - fast KW - Neoliberalism KW - Democracy KW - Civilization KW - HISTORY KW - Europe KW - Spain & Portugal KW - bisacsh KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Reference KW - Government KW - National KW - General KW - Essays KW - Neo-liberalisme KW - Espagne KW - Participation politique KW - 21e siecle KW - Spain KW - 21st century KW - History KW - Civilisation KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Cultural aspects of the neoliberal crisis: genealogies of a fractured legitimacy -- 'Standardizing' from above: experts, intellectuals, and culture bubble -- Arrested modernities: the popular cultures that could have been -- Internet cultures as collaborative creation of value -- Combining the abilities of all the anyones: the 15M movement and its mutations -- Towards more democratic cultural institutions?; Open Access N2 - This book focuses on the rise of sharing and collaboration practices among peers in Spanish digital cultures and social movements in the wake of Spain's financial meltdown of 2008; Cultures of Anyone studies the emergence of collaborative and non-hierarchical cultures in the context of the Spanish economic crisis of 2008. It explains how peer-to-peer social networks that have arisen online and through social movements such as the Indignados have challenged a longstanding cultural tradition of intellectual elitism and capitalist technocracy in Spain. From the establishment of a technocratic and consumerist culture during the second part of the Franco dictatorship to the transition to neoliberalism that accompanied the 'transition to democracy', intellectuals and 'experts' have legitimized contemporary Spanish history as a series of unavoidable steps in a process of 'modernization'. But when unemployment skyrocketed and a growing number of people began to feel that the consequences of this Spanish 'modernization' had increasingly led to precariousness, this paradigm collapsed. In the wake of Spain's financial meltdown of 2008, new 'cultures of anyone' have emerged around the idea that the people affected by or involved in a situation should be the ones to participate in changing it. Growing through grassroots social movements, digital networks, and spaces traditionally reserved for 'high culture' and institutional politics, these cultures promote processes of empowerment and collaborative learning that allow the development of the abilities and knowledge base of 'anyone', regardless of their economic status or institutional affiliations UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/72668/ ER -