Guya Accornero - The Revolution before the Revolution: Late Authoritarianism and Student Protest in Portugal

Protest, Culture and Society

General editors:

Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Institute for Media and Communication, University of Hamburg

Martin Klimke, New York University, Abu Dhabi

Joachim Scharloth, Technische Universitt Dresden, Germany

Protest movements have been recognized as significant contributors to processes of political participation and transformations of culture and value systems, as well as to the development of both a national and transnational civil society.

This series brings together the various innovative approaches to phenomena of social change, protest and dissent which have emerged in recent years, from an interdisciplinary perspective. It contextualizes social protest and cultures of dissent in larger political processes and socio-cultural transformations by examining the influence of historical trajectories and the response of various segments of society, political and legal institutions, on a national and international level. In doing so, the series offers a more comprehensive and multi-dimensional view of historical and cultural change in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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Edited by Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Martin Klimke and Joachim Scharloth

Guya Accornero

Late Authoritarianism and Student Protest in Portugal

Guya Accornero

First published in 2016 by

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2016 Guya Accornero

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Names: Accornero, Guya, author.

Title: The revolution before the revolution : late authoritarianism and student protest in Portugal / Guya Accornero.

Description: New York : Berghahn Books, 2016. | Series: Protest, culture and society ; 18 | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015041497 (print) | LCCN 2015047647 (ebook) | ISBN 9781785331145 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781785331152 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Portugal--History--Revolution, 1974--Protest movements. | Student movements--Portugal--20th century. | Student protestors--Portugal--20th century. | Processo Revolucionario Em Curso. | Portugal--Politics and government--1933-1974.

Classification: LCC DP680 .A6245 2016 (print) | LCC DP680 (ebook) | DDC 946.904/3--dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015041497

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978-1-78533-114-5 hardback

ISBN 978-1-78533-115-2 ebook

This work was supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under Grant 223-2014.

The manuscript was translated from Portuguese by Andrea Titterington Cravinho.

Many are the people who have accompanied me in the adventure of this book, before the research phase, after its writing and finally in the editing process. Among them, I wish to particularly acknowledge Professor Manuel Villaverde Cabral, and for innumerable reasons. Not only was he an inexorable source of intellectual stimuli, who always managed in an almost Socratic form to help me to place in writing the issues and disquietudes brooding in my mind during this work, but he has also been an indispensable human reference, always present over the last ten years. I would also like to acknowledge all my friends who, each in their own way, have accompanied me on this journey. In the first place, Diego Palacios Cerezales, who followed the development of my research since the very beginning, over a beer or two, both in Lisbon and Madrid. Likewise, I would to thank Pedro Ramos Pinto, who always gave me self-confidence and warm encouragement, both for the writing of this book and in the work that we have conducted jointly over these last few years. My gratitude is also expressed to all my friends who have over these years become my new Lisbon family, among the others: Giulia Strippoli, Catherine Moury, Joana Azevedo, Sofia Sampaio, AnnaRita Gori, Chiara Carrozza, Micaela Cacciarelli, Riccardo Marchi, Marco Allegra, Vania Baldi, Frdric Vidal, Antoine Burlet.