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The text of Cultures of Anyone is freely available online at the
Modern Languages Open platform www.modernlanguagesopen.org 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.
The text of Cultures of Anyone is freely available online at the
Modern Languages Open platform www.modernlanguagesopen.org 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.
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