RT Journal Article
T1 Politician, activist… or hero? Rebel Narratives from Spanish 15-M movement
A1 Galindo Ramírez, Joaquín
A1 Jaraíz Arroyo, Germán
A1 Hernández Ramírez, Macarena
K1 15-M
K1 Activism
K1 Discourse
K1 Discourse analysis
K1 Interviews
K1 Narrative
K1 Podemos
K1 Rebelliousness
K1 Social movements
K1 Subjectivity
AB This article explores how narratives and their discursive elements construct the idea of rebelliousness in subjects who followed different pathways through politics and activism after the Spanish 15-M movement. Methodologically, two representative examples of narratives have been selected on the basis of interviews with participants in the movement. To study these cases, the concept of rebel narratives is proposed from the perspective of narrative as social practice. The analysis applied here is based on a dialogue between the two cases studied, as discourses in which the activity of their tellers develops in certain contexts of discourse production. Based on this analysis, it is suggested that rebelliousness, in addition to manifesting subjective affiliations, fulfils a performative function with which the subjects legitimise their chosen path and constitute themselves, motivating, in the cases presented, revisions of the past or the rhetoric characteristic of a hero.
PB John Benjamins
YR 2022
FD 2022-09-05
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10433/21520
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10433/21520
LA en
NO Galindo-Ramírez, J., Jaraíz-Arroyo, G., & Hernández-Ramírez, M. (2022). Politician, activist… or hero? Rebel Narratives from Spanish 15-M movement. Journal of Language and Politics, 21(5), 721-741. DOI 10.1075/jlp.21003.gal
NO Universidad Pablo de Olavide
DS RIO
RD May 22, 2026