Street voices Barcelona and the social movements from the magazine of the FAVB (1991-2007) | Secció Història Contemporànea Món actual

This research project studies Barcelona, local movement and its relation with other social movements from the magazine of the Federation of Neighborhood and Neighborhood Associations of Barcelona (FAVB), La Veu del Carrer, between October From 1991 to the summer of 2007. With reference to anti-Francoism and the transition, the historical period analyzed includes an important cycle of social mobilization -with political impact at the local, Catalan and Spanish levels- and is delimited by Barcelona (pre ) of the Mayor Pasqual Maragall and the city (post) Forum of his successors Joan Clos and Jordi Hereu. This is explained by the subtitle of the work. The title, The street voices, refers to the publication that – with 102 numbers, 2,500 pages and more than 700 collaborators – is the main source of the search. But he also explains the desire to analyze the voice of social movements, underestimated as historical actors, from a multidisciplinary work that, focused on historiography, can not ignore political science, sociology, urban geography, anthropology and journalism. For example, the variety of authors whose ideas have been taken as a reference to focus on research include, among others, the historians Sebastian Balfour, Xavier Domènech and Andreu Mayayo; the anthropologist Manuel Delgado; the sociologists Anna Alabart and Manuel Castells; the geographers Jordi Borja and Horacio Capel; the politicians Xavier Godàs and Lluc Peláez; and journalists Josep Maria Huertas, Albert Musons and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.

At the base of the research, there is the idea that, apart from today ‘s unstructured labor movement and its traditional trade union and political expressions, local or citizen movement in Barcelona is the best person to make an interpretive bridge between the’ Anti-Francoism and Democracy, between class workers and the new social movements. For three reasons: 1) its organizational and generational continuity in the Franco regime, the transition and democracy; 2) its territorial rooting, not thematic, and open to other associative realities; and 3) its special configuration as a social movement, which mixes characteristics of the old class conflict, the social movements of the late 60s and social networking that is characteristic of today’s globalization. The fact that the citizen movement in Barcelona connects historical stages and social movements is exemplified in the FAVB, which requested permission for the pro-amnesty demonstration of the Assembly of Catalonia in February 1976 and was also among the colleagues. Lectioids that, between 2001 and 2004, led to some of the great protests against the Aliens Act, the World Bank, capital Europe, the Iraq war and the Forum of Cultures. The research proves that the FAVB, inserted into a broader social network, helped to mark part of the political agenda in the city during the transition and continues to do so since the 90s.