This article engages the argument that the 2008–2009 Great Recession forced a revisiting of the period of transitions in Spain, Greece, and Portugal as “political masterpieces,” especially among a younger generation of activists. It argues that this radical reevaluation turned the conflicting generational recollections of the past into pivotal components of present political contestation. Moreover, it shows how the redeeming power of the transitions animates the political, cultural, and public discourse of young politicized people who, although (or precisely because) they have not experienced these events directly, keep returning to them to make sense of contemporary politics. The complex relations between past and present are analyzed using oral histories with the so-called Generation 2 of the transitions, namely people who have only “projective memories” of these events during the 1970. Especially relevant is the effects of their participation in the 2011 indignados movements.
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Projections Onto the Past: Memories of Democratization in Spain, Greece, and Portugal During the Great RECESSION*
Kostis Kornetis
Kostis Kornetis
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* Direct correspondence to Kostis Kornetis, Teaching Associate of Modern European History, University of Sheffield (k.kornetis@sheffield.ac.uk). Research for this article has received funding from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement n° 600371, el Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (COFUND2013-51509), el Ministerio de Educación, cultura y Deporte (CEI-15-17) and Banco Santander.
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Mobilization: An International Quarterly (2019) 24 (4): 511–524.
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Kostis Kornetis; Projections Onto the Past: Memories of Democratization in Spain, Greece, and Portugal During the Great RECESSION. Mobilization: An International Quarterly 1 December 2019; 24 (4): 511–524. doi: https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-24-4-512
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