De la Revolución a la Revolta. The Day-to-day Invention of a Selective Political Tradition in a “Sociocultural Space” in the Velluters District, Valencia

Abstract

This article analyses the constitution of a socio-cultural space in the city of Valencia. Such space emerged in the 1990s and is currently managed by an organization that emerged from the complex transformation process of the Moviment Comunista del País Valencià. The ethnographic data allow to address different aspects of urban social movements as ways for collective action apparently not rooted in trade-union, parties or production linked needs, but on reproduction and consumption. In the chosen case-study, the same group of activists shifted from the political party to an NGO whose focus is social movement activism. The article considers the meanings developed by the members of the collective around the continuities and ruptures in the project building, materialization and sustainability over time.