Chapter 5
Urban discourse and civil resistance against gender-based
violence in Madrid
Linguistic Landscape is analyzed to determine how
women’s voices come together in the urban space to ultimately become
a political movement. In recent years, women in Spain have been at
the front and center of an unprecedented mobilization against gender
inequality in all of its forms: salary gap, discrimination and
sexual violence, putting them at the leading edge of feminism
worldwide. I show how this political movement develops in Madrid. My
study is based on geosemiotics (Scollon & Scollon, 2003) and a qualitative
methodology is applied to understand how the social and political
action of protest is approached as mediated through texts and
signs.
Article outline
- Introduction
- Theoretical framework
- Methodology
- Analysis
- The mobilization of women in Madrid: Antecedents and social context
- A further detonator: The Manada case
- Discourses of gender solidarity in place
- Identity and resistance in the LL: Multimodal profiles of the participants in the
protests
- The superdiversity, dynamism and historicity of the protest
movement in the urban space
- Conclusions
-
Notes
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