Repressing the masses. Newspapers and the securitisation of youth dissent in Spain

  1. García-García, Juan 1
  2. Calvo Borobia, Kerman 2
  1. 1 Universidad de Extremadura, España
  2. 2 Universidad de Salamanca, España
Revista:
Revista internacional de sociología

ISSN: 0034-9712

Ano de publicación: 2019

Título do exemplar: Securitización, represión y criminalización del disentimiento juvenil

Volume: 77

Número: 4

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.3989/RIS.2019.77.4.19.006 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso aberto editor

Outras publicacións en: Revista internacional de sociología

Resumo

In this article we analyse the discourse of conservative commentators and journalists who produced critical items against 15-M mobilisations between 16 May and 30 September 2011 in three newspapers: Abc, Libertad Digital and La Razón. The effort on the part of conservative journalists to deride and frame 15-M mobilisations as a threat should be considered repression; more precisely, these mechanisms should be seen as part of a broader strategy of repression of youth dissent, a strategy where conservative media outlets, through the securitisation of protesting, collaborate with conservative political parties, the police and some segments within the criminal legal system. The examination of the repressive behaviour of the Spanish media reveals a surprising parallelism between the present and a past that was thought to have been long overcome. In their fierce criticism of 15-M activism, Spanish conservative commentators have brought crowd psychology back to life – the popular theory that, until well into the twentieth century, summarized certain nineteenth-century intellectual and cultural elites’ fear of middle and working-class activism.

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