The Revolution before the Revolution

Guya Accornero is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL) and co-chair of the Research Group on 'Politics and Citizenship' at CIES-IUL. She is the Principal Investigator of the FCT funded Project 'HOPES: HOusing PErspectives and Struggles', and co-chair of the Council of European Studies Research Network Social Movements. Her main area of teaching and research are social movements, digital activism, policing protest, radicalism, gentrification and housing activism, citizenship. She has published articles in four languages in journals including Mobilization, Social Movement Studies, Journal of Contemporary Religion, West European Politics, Estudos Ibero-Americanos, Democratization, Cultures et Conflits, Historein. She is the co-editor (with Olivier Fillieule) of the book Social Movement Studies in Europe (2016 Berghahn Books).

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Acknowledgements



Introduction



List of Abbreviations



Chapter 1. Two Decades that Shook the World, 1956-1974





Old structures and new conflicts

Student networks and repertories under the New State



Chapter 2. The First Protest Cycle: 1956-1965





The weakening of the Salazarist system

The academic crisis of 1962

The end of the protest cycle



Chapter 3. 'The Marcelo's Spring' and the Opening of a Second Protest Cycle





Marcelism

Mobilization resources and repertoire

The divergent paths of student contestation in Coimbra and Lisbon



Chapter 4. Protest Cycle or Permanent Conflict?





The new objectives of the student movement

The University of Lisbon: ‘an authentic boiler of revolutionaries’



Chapter 5. The Demise of the New State





The end of the regime: mechanisms and processes

Students and the revolution

The ancient regime and the revolution



Conclusions: Social Movements and Authoritarianism: A Paradoxical Relationship



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