Bue Rübner Hansen, Joan Pedro & Simona Rentea at the Cities of Welcome, Cities of Transit conference in Barcelona. (Video, 9 minutes)
Bue Rübner Hansen: "The sense of scarcity creates the sense of injustice, which in turn creates extremism."
Joan Pedro-Carañana: "The traditional anti-fascist movement of Madrid is always male, dressed in black and with hoodies...now it was women, dressed in pink and saying 'Madrid is for everbody'"
Simona Rentea: "How do we build those trans-European, pan-national networks - a federation of struggles?"
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Bue Rübner Hansen has a PhD from Queen Mary University, London. He is an editor of Viewpoint Magazine, and has been an activist researcher in the Britain, Barcelona and in migrant and refugee solidarity movements. His research focuses on social reproduction, class and ecological interest formation and the good life in common.
Simona Rentea is a political scientist trained in Romania and the UK. Since arriving in Spain, Simona has started a project on anti-austerity movements in southern Europe, looking in particular at the role of affect in politics and in the practices of large-scale social mobilisations, such as 15-M and 22-M. She took part in 22-M Marchas de la Dignidad in 2014 and has been following the development of Podemos since its inception.
Joan Pedro-Carañana, is in the Department of Journalism and New Media of the Complutense University of Madrid. He has a European doctorate in Communication, Social Change and Development, and has been active in a variety of social movements. His interest lies in the role of communication, education and culture in the transformation of societies.
