ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the passage from deliberation in social movement microspheres to deliberation in the public sphere amidst the 15M. It focuses on three analytical axes namely: the cognitive, emotional and relational processes feeding the construction of a social movement identity. The chapter analyzes the role of the Free Culture and Digital Commons Movement in the genealogy of the 15M. It also examines the protests that surrounded the inception and development of the Spanish 15M. On the other hand, the emergence of the 15M was marked by a wave of anti-austerity protests in Catalonia, one of the two largest and richest Autonomous Communities within Spain. The chapter also analyzes the differences and similarities between feminisms and the 15M as a new space of mobilization. It also focuses on the occupation of main central squares in different cities and neighborhoods, and the celebration of regular assemblies in these squares, as salient features of the initial political identity of the 15M movement.
