‘I wanted to carry out the revolution’: activists’ trajectories in Portugal from dictatorship to democracy

A mobilização cívica e política na era das redes sociais: uma análise da ação de movimentos sociais no Facebook

“…No contexto da Grande Recessão -não deixa de ser notório o facto de estarmos perante a maior mobilização em Portugal, a 15 de setembro de 2012, que decorreu da reação a uma ofensiva liberalizadora do governo português de então, a coberto do memorando de entendimento com a Troika. Esta ação resultou num ciclo de protesto que se prolongou desde 2010 até ao verão de 2013 (Accornero e Pinto, 2015a;Accornero, 2019). Foi num momento de generalizado sentimento de desilusão, relativamente à promessa democrática das últimas quatro décadas, que os portugueses saíram em massa à rua contestando uma medida que lhes "mexia diretamente no bolso".…”

“Everything Was Possible”: Emotions and Perceptions of the Past Among Former Portuguese Antifascist Activists

“…Second, the role of these activists' fight in creating the conditions for the "new day clean and whole" was not just their own perception, but it is also, significantly, what really happened: the cycle of protest started at the end of the regime contributed in fact to its fall, and especially to the specific path taken by the Portuguese transition (Accornero 2013(Accornero , 2016a(Accornero , 2019. Moreover, the strong social mobilization during the period pushed for a much more radical cut with the past: "The mobilization of diverse anti-dictatorial forces was crucial in the first days after the coup of 1974.…”

“…This is more of a cognitive experience than an emotional one, even if I agree with James Jasper that the two levels are difficult to separate and we need to recognize that "feeling and thinking are parallel, interacting processes of evaluating and interacting with our worlds" (Jasper, 2011, p. 286). and the feelings associated to that fight and to the following revolution was determinant for their activist trajectories (Accornero 2019). The revolution is seen as a moment when 'everything was possible', and this expresses the perception of a drastic augmentation of the potentialities of engagement which, as an effect, strengthened their participation.…”

“…The revolution is seen as a moment when 'everything was possible', and this expresses the perception of a drastic augmentation of the potentialities of engagement which, as an effect, strengthened their participation. On the other side, the disappearing of this feeling ('after this was lost') motivated their disengagement (Accornero 2019). These activists did not merely take advantage of the opportunities opened by the collapse of the regime and by the crisis of the state, but they were players in these processes, contributing to the specific form the Portuguese transition took, and, as a consequence, to building their own and the collective memory.…”

Life-Course Effects of Women’s Political Activism: Public and Private Trajectories From Anti-Francoism to the 15-M in Spain

“…It examines a group of Spanish women who became involved in activism at the early 1970s during the last years of the Franco dictatorship. In this sense, we look at political activism at a moment of transition to democracy, which is similar to other experiences that have been scarcely analyzed, such as those of Portugal and Greece (Accornero 2019a;Kornetis 2013;Ramos 2008). We…”