Óscar García Agustín
Biographic Data
| ID | 258079 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Óscar García Agustín |
| GIVEN NAMES | Óscar García |
| FAMILY NAME | Agustín |
| SIGNATURE | AGUSTÍN Ó G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aalborg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9879-5467 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Commoning Cosmopolitanism: Solidarity Beyond Capital, Borders, and Sameness
Approaches to situated and located cosmopolitanism offer the opportunity to think of the formation of a universal community, which demands equality and social justice and is rooted in urban and local practices. This article delves into this perspective by connecting the literature on cosmopolitanism, the commons, and solidarity. Based on a sociospatial conception of solidarity, the notion of “commoning cosmopolitanism” is developed as a framework…
Gramsci, social theory and migration
The work of Antonio Gramsci implies, in comparison with Karl Marx, a shift toward civil society, rather than state, as an intermediate category between economic structures and political institutions. Gramsci offers indeed an integral state composed of the political society (which exercises coercion) and civil society (which generates consensus). Thus, civil society becomes the site of production and contestation of ideas, the elaboration and diff…
Eurocommunism’s contribution to the idea of ???democracy without qualifying adjectives
Óscar García Agustín talks to Gaspar Llamazares Gaspar Llamazares joined the Communist Party of Asturias in 1981. Between 2000 and 2008 he was the national coordinator of Izquierda Unida (United Left). In response to the rise of the 15M movement, he and others founded Izquierda Abierta (Open Left), with the aim of building a larger progressive coalition. The party remained within Izquierda Unida, but aimed to counteract the weight of the Communis…
Podemos, Sumar and the return of Eurocommunism: The real, the radical and the populist left
Is it possible to create a majoritarian left without lapsing into reformism? Given that Eurocommunism was marked by serious limitations in the past, why is it still relevant to think about it? This article argues that Eurocommunism represented an attempt to create and own the necessary political space to advance socialism in liberal democracies, and to search for ways of building a counterhegemonic project within civil society (which would imply …
Scaling populism: The discursive articulation of spaces by Vox on Twitter
While the division between the people and the elite created by populism is typically understood within a national framework, the aim of this article is to analyse how the understanding of the people and the elite is constructed by the use of interwoven scales. By focusing on the scalar politics of the Spanish party Vox, the discursive articulation of space through scales are analysed. By means of a qualitative discourse analysis of six Twitter (n…
The Image of the Urban People: Visual Analysis of the Spatialised Demos of Left-Wing Populism in Madrid
This paper focuses on the visual representation of “the urban people” by the Spanish left-wing populist party Unidas Podemos (UP) during the campaign for regional elections in Madrid in 2021. The political environment was characterised by increasing polarisation and the hyper-leadership of two candidates, right-wing Isabel Díaz Ayuso and UP’s national leader Pablo Iglesias. In this context, UP employed a diverse range of images and audio-visual m…
Reflections on the spaces of populist politics in Europe
A discussion of the record of left- and right-wing populist parties in Europe in response to the austerity policies that followed on from the financial crisis of 2007-8, focusing both on the populist right and on the trajectories of Syriza and Podemos. Questions discussed include: the issue of definition - whether populism is more than a mobilising strategy/understanding it as a hybrid political practice; what happens to left populist parties whe…
Catalan Independence and the Crisis of Sovereignty
From Global to Multi-Scalar Sovereignty: Intersectional Political Community as Resistance
With the publication of Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri announced a new form of sovereignty, Empire, which implied moving from nation-state sovereignty to global sovereignty. This paper revises some of the main aspects of the theory to understand Imperial sovereignty as well as its post-territorial political community of resistance, multitude. In this critical reading of some of Hardt and Negri’s concepts, sovereignty is conceived as two-…
On Transversal Solidarity: An Approach to Migration and Multi-Scalar Solidarities
This article develops a conceptualisation of transversal solidarity in relation to migration and migrants. It reflects different ways of practicing, organising and articulating solidarity. We proceed through a conceptualisation of solidarity in terms of 'transversal solidarity' relating to three dimensions involved in solidarity practices from below and discuss how to bridge their respective dichotomies: identity and the related in-group and out-…
New municipalism as space for solidarity
This article considers municipalism as a form of progressive localism, which on the one hand connects the local and the global through translocal solidarity, and on the other scales-up and becomes an alternative way of doing politics beyond the state. The main focus is on citizens' candidatures in Spain, which have not been linked in the traditional way to a national party, and in particular on Barcelona en Comú and Barcelona mayor Ada Colau. It …
Left-Wing Populism: The Politics of the People
Nationalism and Patriotism
Catalan Independence and the Crisis of Sovereignty
Left-Wing Populism: The Politics of the People
Solidarity and the 'Refugee Crisis' in Europe
Solidarity Cities and Cosmopolitanism from Below: Barcelona as a Refugee City
The so-called ‘refugee crisis’ provoked a wave of solidarity movements across Europe. These movements contrasted with attitudes of rejection against refugees from almost all EU member states and a lack of coordinated and satisfactory response from the EU as an institution. The growth of the solidarity movement entails backlash of nationalized identities, while the resistance of the member states to accept refugees represents the failure of the co…
Podemos and the New Political Cycle
European Counterpublics? DiEM25, Plan B and the Agonistic European Public Sphere
After the negotiations between the Syriza government and the European Union (EU), the European Left faced the dilemma of which kind of progressive Europe could be developed within the existing EU framework. Two initiatives were launched to foster an alternative Europe after the Greek crisis: ‘A Plan B in Europe’ (Plan B) and the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25). These initiatives emerged to promote a new European project as a rejection …
Solidarity without Borders: Gramscian Perspectives on Migration and Civil Society Alliances
Solidarity without Borders: Gramscian Perspectives on Migration and Civil Society Alliances
Dialogic Cosmopolitanism and the New Wave of Movements: From Local Rupture to Global Openness
The emergence of a new cycle of protests in 2011 raises questions about the connection between social movements and about the possible existence of a cosmopolitan vision to combine the local and the global dimensions of the protests. This article presents a conceptualization of dialogic cosmopolitanism to account for the kind of cosmopolitanism which characterizes this new cycle. Being dialogic entails connectivity between previous and forthcomin…
Sociology of Discourse: From institutions to social change
Sociology of Discourse takes the perspective that collective actors like social movements are capable of creating social change from below by creating new institutions through alternative discourses. Institutionalization becomes a process of moving away from existing institutions towards creating new ones. While discourses entail openness and enable the questioning of what is instituted, institutions offer continuity and stability to social mobil…
Politics of Dissent
Más allá del malestar. Una hipótesis sociológica sobre el significado político del movimiento estudiantil chileno
La irrupción del movimiento estudiantil chileno requiere ser abordada en clave sociológica. Hasta el momento, la lectura predominante respecto a las tensiones y conflictos que las movilizaciones estudiantiles han dejado emerger se limita a describir cómo las lógicas economicistas de las políticas educativas, impulsadas por los diferentes gobiernos chilenos durante estos últimos treinta años, han provocado un creciente malestar contra el neolibera…
Solidarity Cities and Cosmopolitanism from Below: Barcelona as a Refugee City
The so-called ‘refugee crisis’ provoked a wave of solidarity movements across Europe. These movements contrasted with attitudes of rejection against refugees from almost all EU member states and a lack of coordinated and satisfactory response from the EU as an institution. The growth of the solidarity movement entails backlash of nationalized identities, while the resistance of the member states to accept refugees represents the failure of the co…
On Transversal Solidarity: An Approach to Migration and Multi-Scalar Solidarities
This article develops a conceptualisation of transversal solidarity in relation to migration and migrants. It reflects different ways of practicing, organising and articulating solidarity. We proceed through a conceptualisation of solidarity in terms of 'transversal solidarity' relating to three dimensions involved in solidarity practices from below and discuss how to bridge their respective dichotomies: identity and the related in-group and out-…
Dialogic Cosmopolitanism and the New Wave of Movements: From Local Rupture to Global Openness
The emergence of a new cycle of protests in 2011 raises questions about the connection between social movements and about the possible existence of a cosmopolitan vision to combine the local and the global dimensions of the protests. This article presents a conceptualization of dialogic cosmopolitanism to account for the kind of cosmopolitanism which characterizes this new cycle. Being dialogic entails connectivity between previous and forthcomin…
Enhancing solidarity: Discourses of voluntary organizations on immigration and integration in multicultural societies
This article analyzes the discursive construction of solidarity regarding immigration and integration in two European countries: Spain and Denmark. The study is based on interviews with representatives of 10 Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and it focuses on the affective and evaluative dimensions of language aimed at achieving alignment with civil society. The analytical approach combines Positive Discourse Analysis and Appraisal Theory, si…
Gramsci, social theory and migration
The work of Antonio Gramsci implies, in comparison with Karl Marx, a shift toward civil society, rather than state, as an intermediate category between economic structures and political institutions. Gramsci offers indeed an integral state composed of the political society (which exercises coercion) and civil society (which generates consensus). Thus, civil society becomes the site of production and contestation of ideas, the elaboration and diff…
Scaling populism: The discursive articulation of spaces by Vox on Twitter
While the division between the people and the elite created by populism is typically understood within a national framework, the aim of this article is to analyse how the understanding of the people and the elite is constructed by the use of interwoven scales. By focusing on the scalar politics of the Spanish party Vox, the discursive articulation of space through scales are analysed. By means of a qualitative discourse analysis of six Twitter (n…
European Counterpublics? DiEM25, Plan B and the Agonistic European Public Sphere
After the negotiations between the Syriza government and the European Union (EU), the European Left faced the dilemma of which kind of progressive Europe could be developed within the existing EU framework. Two initiatives were launched to foster an alternative Europe after the Greek crisis: ‘A Plan B in Europe’ (Plan B) and the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25). These initiatives emerged to promote a new European project as a rejection …
Más allá del malestar. Una hipótesis sociológica sobre el significado político del movimiento estudiantil chileno
La irrupción del movimiento estudiantil chileno requiere ser abordada en clave sociológica. Hasta el momento, la lectura predominante respecto a las tensiones y conflictos que las movilizaciones estudiantiles han dejado emerger se limita a describir cómo las lógicas economicistas de las políticas educativas, impulsadas por los diferentes gobiernos chilenos durante estos últimos treinta años, han provocado un creciente malestar contra el neolibera…
Spatial practices and narratives: The GenkiDama for education by Chilean students
The Chilean students’ rebellion emerged in 2011 within the wave of global protests. Even though it is an organized movement, with roots in a specific historical context, it shares with the global movement the use of new media technologies, the appropriation of public spaces, and the concern for democracy and equality. The movement deploys flexible forms of organization and mobilization such as flash mobs, in the case analyzed in this article, the…
Enhancing solidarity: Discourses of voluntary organizations on immigration and integration in multicultural societies
This article analyzes the discursive construction of solidarity regarding immigration and integration in two European countries: Spain and Denmark. The study is based on interviews with representatives of 10 Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and it focuses on the affective and evaluative dimensions of language aimed at achieving alignment with civil society. The analytical approach combines Positive Discourse Analysis and Appraisal Theory, si…
Intercultural Dialogue Visions of the Council of Europe and the European Commission for a Post-Multiculturalist Era
Intercultural dialogue was introduced at the European level through policy documents of the Council of Europe and the European Commission in the 2000s. This article explores the ways in which intercultural dialogue is developed as a model to handle cultural diversity in different areas. Furthermore it discusses whether intercultural dialogue can be perceived as an alternative model to the previous integration policies marked by assimilationism an…
Politics of civility: The case of the Association of Undocumented People of Madrid
The mobilization of undocumented immigrants in civil society reflects the politics of civility, defined by Balibar as the creation of a space for an inclusive political community based on equality. The case analysed in this article, the Association of Undocumented People of Madrid, refers to a group of undocumented sellers of pirate products who decide to organize and claim their contribution to society. The Association aims to change the legisla…
Immigration and civil society New ways of democratic transformation
In this special issue, we consider it essential to understand the potential of “democratic transformation”, fostered by civil society, not as a transition to democracy but as a way of deepening democracy. In our understanding democratic transformation is based on the power of organized civil society actors to challenge the institutional order rather than an achievement measured against the main characteristics of representative democracy. The sev…
Spatial practices and narratives: The GenkiDama for education by Chilean students
The Chilean students’ rebellion emerged in 2011 within the wave of global protests. Even though it is an organized movement, with roots in a specific historical context, it shares with the global movement the use of new media technologies, the appropriation of public spaces, and the concern for democracy and equality. The movement deploys flexible forms of organization and mobilization such as flash mobs, in the case analyzed in this article, the…
Sociology of Discourse: From institutions to social change
Sociology of Discourse takes the perspective that collective actors like social movements are capable of creating social change from below by creating new institutions through alternative discourses. Institutionalization becomes a process of moving away from existing institutions towards creating new ones. While discourses entail openness and enable the questioning of what is instituted, institutions offer continuity and stability to social mobil…
Politics of Dissent
Más allá del malestar. Una hipótesis sociológica sobre el significado político del movimiento estudiantil chileno
La irrupción del movimiento estudiantil chileno requiere ser abordada en clave sociológica. Hasta el momento, la lectura predominante respecto a las tensiones y conflictos que las movilizaciones estudiantiles han dejado emerger se limita a describir cómo las lógicas economicistas de las políticas educativas, impulsadas por los diferentes gobiernos chilenos durante estos últimos treinta años, han provocado un creciente malestar contra el neolibera…
Solidarity without Borders: Gramscian Perspectives on Migration and Civil Society Alliances
Solidarity without Borders: Gramscian Perspectives on Migration and Civil Society Alliances
Dialogic Cosmopolitanism and the New Wave of Movements: From Local Rupture to Global Openness
The emergence of a new cycle of protests in 2011 raises questions about the connection between social movements and about the possible existence of a cosmopolitan vision to combine the local and the global dimensions of the protests. This article presents a conceptualization of dialogic cosmopolitanism to account for the kind of cosmopolitanism which characterizes this new cycle. Being dialogic entails connectivity between previous and forthcomin…
European Counterpublics? DiEM25, Plan B and the Agonistic European Public Sphere
After the negotiations between the Syriza government and the European Union (EU), the European Left faced the dilemma of which kind of progressive Europe could be developed within the existing EU framework. Two initiatives were launched to foster an alternative Europe after the Greek crisis: ‘A Plan B in Europe’ (Plan B) and the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25). These initiatives emerged to promote a new European project as a rejection …
Podemos and the New Political Cycle
Solidarity and the 'Refugee Crisis' in Europe
Solidarity Cities and Cosmopolitanism from Below: Barcelona as a Refugee City
The so-called ‘refugee crisis’ provoked a wave of solidarity movements across Europe. These movements contrasted with attitudes of rejection against refugees from almost all EU member states and a lack of coordinated and satisfactory response from the EU as an institution. The growth of the solidarity movement entails backlash of nationalized identities, while the resistance of the member states to accept refugees represents the failure of the co…
New municipalism as space for solidarity
This article considers municipalism as a form of progressive localism, which on the one hand connects the local and the global through translocal solidarity, and on the other scales-up and becomes an alternative way of doing politics beyond the state. The main focus is on citizens' candidatures in Spain, which have not been linked in the traditional way to a national party, and in particular on Barcelona en Comú and Barcelona mayor Ada Colau. It …
Left-Wing Populism: The Politics of the People
Nationalism and Patriotism
Catalan Independence and the Crisis of Sovereignty
Left-Wing Populism: The Politics of the People
Catalan Independence and the Crisis of Sovereignty
From Global to Multi-Scalar Sovereignty: Intersectional Political Community as Resistance
With the publication of Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri announced a new form of sovereignty, Empire, which implied moving from nation-state sovereignty to global sovereignty. This paper revises some of the main aspects of the theory to understand Imperial sovereignty as well as its post-territorial political community of resistance, multitude. In this critical reading of some of Hardt and Negri’s concepts, sovereignty is conceived as two-…
On Transversal Solidarity: An Approach to Migration and Multi-Scalar Solidarities
This article develops a conceptualisation of transversal solidarity in relation to migration and migrants. It reflects different ways of practicing, organising and articulating solidarity. We proceed through a conceptualisation of solidarity in terms of 'transversal solidarity' relating to three dimensions involved in solidarity practices from below and discuss how to bridge their respective dichotomies: identity and the related in-group and out-…
Reflections on the spaces of populist politics in Europe
A discussion of the record of left- and right-wing populist parties in Europe in response to the austerity policies that followed on from the financial crisis of 2007-8, focusing both on the populist right and on the trajectories of Syriza and Podemos. Questions discussed include: the issue of definition - whether populism is more than a mobilising strategy/understanding it as a hybrid political practice; what happens to left populist parties whe…
The Image of the Urban People: Visual Analysis of the Spatialised Demos of Left-Wing Populism in Madrid
This paper focuses on the visual representation of “the urban people” by the Spanish left-wing populist party Unidas Podemos (UP) during the campaign for regional elections in Madrid in 2021. The political environment was characterised by increasing polarisation and the hyper-leadership of two candidates, right-wing Isabel Díaz Ayuso and UP’s national leader Pablo Iglesias. In this context, UP employed a diverse range of images and audio-visual m…
Political science (26 works) · Law (24 works) · Sociology (24 works) · Politics (20 works) · Political economy (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Solidarity (8 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works)