The Revolution before the Revolution (eBook)

Guya Accornero is a senior researcher fellow in political science at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, Lisbon University Institute (IUL) - with a grant of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, grant number FCT-IF/00223/2012) - and invited professor at the same University. She collaborates with the ‘Barometer of News’ of the IUL Journalism School. She has been visiting researcher at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences of the Juan March Foundation, Madrid; at the Lausanne University Research Centre on Political Action and at the CUNY-Graduate Centre, New York City. Her research interests include contentious politics, radicalization, political violence, repression, anti-austerity protest, housing and anti-gentrification movements. Besides several book-chapters, she has published articles in the journals West European Politics, Democratization, Cultures & Conflicts, Análise Social, Storia e Problemi Contemporanei, Historein, Estudos Ibero-Americanos, and Journal of Contemporary Religion. She is the co-editor of the book Percorsi. Scienze sociali tra Italia e Portogallo (BraDypUS).

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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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