Lisbon Rising - Urban Social Movements in the Portuguese Revolution, 1974-75

Informationen zum Autor Pedro Ramos Pinto is Lecturer in International Economic History at the University of Cambridge and fellow of Trinity Hall Klappentext Lisbon rising explores the role of a widespread urban social movement in Portugal's revolution and transition to democracy. The emergence of a grassroots movement of the urban held the promise that the revolution would deliver a truly popular and socialist democracy. Many thousands participated in democratic neighbourhood assemblies deciding the fate of the city, built houses, schools and hospitals, and occupied thousands of apartments. Yet, while the movement remains to this day a symbol of the possibilities of grassroots democracy, little is known about how it appeared, what role it played in the Carnation Revolution, and why it disappeared after 1975. Drawing on newly available sources, Lisbon rising challenges long-established views of civil society in southern Europe as weak, arguing that popular movements had an important and autonomous role democratisation, inviting us to rethink role of popular agency in the history and theory of transitions.Lisbon rising will be of interest students and scholars of twentieth-century European history, as well as of democratisation, social movements and citizenship in political science and sociology. Zusammenfassung Explores the role of a widespread urban social movement in the revolutionary process that accompanied Portugal’s transition from authoritarianism to democracy. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction2. The New State and the transformation of urban citizenship, 1926-19743. From rights to action: April to December 19744. Building a movement: September 1974 to June 19755. The street and the ballot box: June to November 19756. Urban social movements and the making of Portuguese democracyReferencesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Pedro Pinto, Pedro Ramos Pinto, Pinto Pedro, Pedro Ramos Pinto
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2013
• EAN: 9780719085444
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8544-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Portugal, Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Revolutionary groups & movements, Revolutionary groups and movements, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions