This edited collection explores the ways in which the 2008/2009 social and economic crisis in Southern Europe affected the interpretation of the transitional past in Spain, Greece and Portugal. Discussing topics such as public memory, Europeanism and uses of the past by grassroots movements, the volume showcases how the crisis challenged consolidated perceptions of the transitions as 'success stories'. It revisits the dominant historical narratives around Southern European transitions to democracy more than forty years since the demise of authoritarian regimes, bringing together contributors from history, cultural studies, political science and sociology. Maria Elena Cavallaro is Associate Professor of History of International Relations at LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy, and member of CIHDE (Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de la Democracia Española) in Madrid, Spain. She was Santander Fellow in Iberian Studies at St. Antony's College, Oxford, from 2015 to 2016. She has published extensively on the Iberian Peninsula and the European Integration process and she is now working on the role of the Jenkins and Thorn Commissions in the Mediterranean Enlargement. Kostis Kornetis is Santander Fellow in Iberian Studies at St Antony's College, Oxford. He previously studied history in Munich, London and Florence and taught at Brown University and New York University. He was Marie Sklodowska Curie Experienced Fellow at the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, Spain. He has published extensively on the history and memory of social movements in the European South and is currently working on a book manuscript on the generational memory of transitions to democracy in Spain, Greece and Portugal.

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Maria Elena Cavallaro is Associate Professor of History of International Relations at LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy, and member of CIHDE (Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de la Democracia Española) in Madrid, Spain. She was Santander Fellow in Iberian Studies at St. Antony's College, Oxford, from 2015 to 2016. She has published extensively on the Iberian Peninsula and the European Integration process and she is now working on the role of the Jenkins and Thorn Commissions in the Mediterranean  Enlargement.

Kostis Kornetis is Santander Fellow in Iberian Studies at St Antony's College, Oxford. He previously studied history in Munich, London and Florence and taught at Brown University and New York University. He was Marie Skodowska Curie Experienced Fellow at the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, Spain. He has published extensively on the history and memory of social movements in the European South and is currently working on a book manuscript on the generational memory of transitions to democracy in Spain, Greece and Portugal.

Inhalt

1 Introduction: Lost in Transition?

Kostis Kornetis and Maria Elena Cavallaro

Part I Conflicting Memory of Transition

2Self-portraits of the Past. Conflicting Narratives of the Spanish Transition in a Time of Crisis: the Academic, Political and Cultural Realms (2008-2016)

Carmen Gustrán and Alejandro Quiroga 

3The Legacy of the Portuguese Transition to Democracy. April-warriors versus November-warriors' 

Filipa Raimundo and Claudia Almeida 

4Public Memory of the Transitions in Greece and Spain. Towards a Change of Script?

Kostis Kornetis 

Part II Europeanism, Europeanization and Euroscepticism since the late 1970s 

5 The Abduction of Europa: Europeanism and Euroscepticism in Greece, 1974-2015

Ioannis Balampanidis 

6 The Persistence of the Myth: Europeanism in Spain from the late Francoism to the Outbreak of the 2008 Economic Crisis

Maria Elena Cavallaro 

7Parties, citizens and the eurozone crisis: How Europe has contributed to the resilience of the Portuguese party system 

Marco Lisi 

Part III   Uses of the Past by Grassroots Political Actors

8Transition to Stability. The Greek Left in 1974

Kostis Karpozilos

9From the 'Unfinished Revolution' to the 'Defence of the Revolution': Framing the Transition in Austerity-Era Portugal

Tiago Carvalho and Pedro Ramos Pinto

10How National Histories Shaped the Politics of Crisis: South European Contrasts

Robert M. Fishman

11 Conclusions

Maria Elena Cavallaro and Kostis Kornetis