Guya Accornero is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL) and co-chair of the Research Group on 'Politics and Citizenship' at CIES-IUL. She is the Principal Investigator of the FCT funded Project 'HOPES: HOusing PErspectives and Struggles', and co-chair of the Council of European Studies Research Network Social Movements. Her main area of teaching and research are social movements, digital activism, policing protest, radicalism, gentrification and housing activism, citizenship. She has published articles in four languages in journals including Mobilization, Social Movement Studies, Journal of Contemporary Religion, West European Politics, Estudos Ibero-Americanos, Democratization, Cultures et Conflits, Historein. She is the co-editor (with Olivier Fillieule) of the book Social Movement Studies in Europe (2016 Berghahn Books).

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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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