| Sumario: | Nuevos Movimientos Sociales: de la calle a los ayuntamientos [New social movements: from the street to town councils]: by Pedro Ibarra Güell, Salvador Martí i Puig, Mercè Cortina-Oriol and Ariel Scribman Mittelman, Barcelona, Icaria Publishers/ collection: Más Madera, 2018, 81 pp., €17 (paperback), ISBN 978 84 9888 842 3 Nuevos Movimientos Sociales: de la calle a los ayuntamientos [New social movements: from the street to town councils ], by Pedro Ibarra Güell, Salvador Martí i Puig, Mercè Cortina-Oriol and Ariel Scribman Mittelman Barcelona, Icaria Publishers/ collection: Más Madera, 2018, 81 pp., €17 (paperback), ISBN 978 84 9888 842 3 This book, written by a well-known group of Spanish and Catalan academic-activists, is a useful overview of the origins and development of the first two years in power of the alternative political parties and independent citizen platforms who governed Spanish cities between 2015 and 2019. Perhaps because the book is directed to the general public, many chapters also appear not to ground their analysis in the literature of previous radical social movements in Spain or Latin America.
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