ABSTRACT
The Spanish Indignados movement has attracted unparalleled support and participation in recent Spanish history and surprised observers by its tenacity. However, the movement is often depicted in the media as a movement of marginalised youth (so-called ‘perroflautas’).1 The starting point for the present study was this seeming contradiction between the wide support base of the Indignados movement,2 on the one hand, and the common media image of the movement, portrayed as consisting of the young and the marginalised lacking any concrete or realistic solutions to the problems. This paper argues that the movement is, in fact, highly diverse and that uncovering the different motivational constellations within the movement will further our understanding of the internal dynamics of social movement participation.
