Seminário organizado pela Linha Temática Histórias Conectadas onde serão apresentados algumas das conclusões do volume editado pelos convidados.

Comparing the Southern European Transitions to Democracy

Despite the fact that the Greek, Spanish and Portuguese three transitions were conceptually linked from the beginning as the vanguard of Samuel Huntington’s famous “third wave” of democratic transitions, there has been surprisingly little substantive comparative historical research, especially considering all three cases together. On the one hand, there is still a basic assumption that these cases are related, but on the other hand, there has been little concerted effort to test this assumption after decades of extensive but largely autonomous historical research into each case. In this talk we will present some of the conclusions of the special issue we co-edited, that takes the Southern European “model” as its point of departure, re-evaluating it in the wake of almost four decades of historiography. In so doing, we also hope to open new lines of comparative analysis for the next generation of transition scholars.

Chairman: Pedro Aires Oliveira (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)

Speakers:

Pamela Radcliff is Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. She earned her B.A. in History from Scripps College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Modern European History from Columbia University. In 1997, she received the Eleanor Roosevelt College Excellence in Teaching Award, and in 1999, she was awarded the San Diego Division of the Academic Senate of the University of California Distinguished Teaching Award. Professor Radcliff is associate editor of the six-volume Encyclopedia of European Social History from 1350 to 2000. Her historical research has focused on Spanish history in the 20th century, with particular emphasis on popular mobilization and the long-term struggle to establish a democratic system of government. She has published several articles and books on these issues. In 1998 she received the Sierra Book Award from the Western Association of Women's Historians for her book, From Mobilization to Civil War: The Politics of Polarization in the Spanish City of Gijon, 1900-1937.

Kostis Kornetis teaches contemporary history at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM). He has taught at Brown, New York University, and the University of Sheffield, and was CONEX-Marie Curie Experienced Fellow at Carlos III, Madrid, and Santander Fellow in Iberian Studies at St Antony’s College, Oxford. He is the author of Children of the Dictatorship. Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the ‘long 1960s’ in Greece (Berghahn Books, 2013) and co-editor of Consumption and Gender in Southern Europe since the “Long 1960s” (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Rethinking Democratisation in Spain, Greece and Portugal (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). He is currently writing a book on the generational memory of the transitions to democracy in Southern Europe (OUP, forthcoming 2022).

Organisers: Manuel Loff, Pedro Aires Oliveira, and Maria Inácia Rezola (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)