[Call for Papers] História - Revista da FLUP - N.º 15 - 2.º semestre, IV Série, 2024 (Dossiê temático - Revolução de Abril: cinquenta anos depois)

Deadline: until 1 September 2024

25 April Revolution: fifty years on

In the early hours of 25 April 1974, a military movement carried out by the intermediate officers of the Armed Forces, the captains, overthrew the longest dictatorship in Western Europe, which originated during the era of fascism. On the morning of that day, despite the call for calm from the Armed Forces Movement, thousands of Portuguese took to the streets and transformed the military movement into a revolution starting a historic turning point and a process of radical transformation of Portuguese society.

Unlike the majority of contemporary democratisation processes, from Greece and Spain to Latin America, the end of the dictatorship in Portugal did not come about through a more or less negotiated transition between the ruling elites and the opposition, but through a Revolution, which put an end to an authoritarian and corporative regime, which put an end to imperial illusions and social and political oppression and opened the door to civic, social and political participation for the Portuguese. Tired of 48 years of dictatorship and 13 years of a colonial war in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, which could not be won militarily, which led the national economy to ruin, which condemned a significant proportion of young people to emigration and exile, and which isolated the country internationally, the Portuguese sought to build a new, fairer, more egalitarian and democratic society during the revolutionary process.

Fifty years on, 25 April and the revolutionary process continue to be the subject of discussion and debate in the social sciences and humanities. Our aim with this issue of História is to reflect on the complexity of the 25 April Revolution, focusing on the social, political and cultural dynamics that permeate the revolutionary process and its significance(s) at national and international level.

We therefore invite proposals to be submitted under the following thematic axes: