Cristina Flesher Fominaya

Cristina Flesher Fominaya is a co-founder of the open-access social movements journal Interfaceand Editor-in-Chief of Social Movement Studies. She holds an MA and a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.

Cristina publishes widely on politics, social movements and democracy in both academic and media outlets. Her three most recent books are Democracy Reloaded: Inside Spain’s Political Laboratory from 15-M to Podemos (Oxford University Press); Social Movements in a Globalized World (Palgrave Macmillan/Red Globe); and The Handbook of Contemporary European Social Movements: Protest in Turbulent Times (Routledge).

Check Cristina Flesher Fominaya’s profile at academia.edu

Recommended reading – all open-access PDF:

Collective Identity in Social Movements: Central Concepts and Debates

Feminism, women´s movements and women in movement

Redefining the Crisis/ Redefining Democracy: Mobilising for the Right to Housing in Spain’s PAH Movement

Creating Cohesion from Diversity: The Challenge of Collective Identity Formation in the Global Justice Movement