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SOCIAL MOVEMENT STUDIES
Volume 17, Issue 4, Pages 471-477Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2018.1468244
Keywords
Anti-tourism industry movement; urban social movements; regional nationalism; tourism apartments; La CUP
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This profile looks at the wave of at times violent protests against the economic, social and environmental consequences of mass tourism in Barcelona, which came to international attention in the summer of 2017. It outlines the leading role played by left-wing nationalist activists linked to the Candidatura d'Unitat Popular (CUP, Popular Unity Candidacy) political party in the protests. I examine CUP's direct-action methods, targeting local business interests and foreign tourists, as well as the largely critical response this prompted from the wider anti-tourism industry movement. This profile addresses the CUP's justifications for the action and the echo effect it had in other parts of Spain. It argues that to understand the events requires a focus on aspects of both continuity and change in urban social movement mobilisation in Barcelona, against processes of neoliberal urbanisation, in which anti-tourism industry contestation is to the fore.
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