Policies of inclusion? Some thoughts on the ‘Los Indignados’ movement, the emerging of the neoliberal penal state and the criminalization of ‘Being Young’ in southern europe

Abstract

A growing reactivity of young people against dominant classes has emerged over recent years in post - industrial cities. This text explores how the so - called ‘European Spring’ is related to the dow nward mobility suffered by young middle classes from Europe that have been accompanied, at the same time, by the criminalization of ‘being young’ as response of political and financial elites (the ‘Old’) facing the collapse of financial capitalism in Europ e.