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Retracing Protest Publics in Portugal: A Generation in Trouble

In: Protest Publics

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  • Cristina Montalvão Sarmento

    (University of Lisbon)

  • Patrícia Oliveira

    (University of Lisbon)

  • Patrícia Tomás

    (University of Lisbon)

Abstract

In 2008–2010, Portugal and other Southern European markets were hit by the financial crisis. Since then, new forms of political protests emerged in the Portuguese political arena. The pioneering protest, called Geração à Rasca—Generation in Trouble—was a demonstration that took place on March 12, 2011, in Lisbon and Porto, the two largest Portuguese cities. This type of protest, here called protest publics, was self-organized outside government structures and mainly organized through social networks, signals the emergence of a crisis of the country’s democratic institutions and generates political change. The aim of this chapter is to analyse these protest publics in Portugal. The inquiry will show how the protests stimulated the emergence of a left coalition that has ruled Portugal since November 2015, the so-called geringonça (contraption, satirical expression of an unusual coalition), marking one of the largest transformations of the political scene since democratization.

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  • Cristina Montalvão Sarmento & Patrícia Oliveira & Patrícia Tomás, 2019. "Retracing Protest Publics in Portugal: A Generation in Trouble," Societies and Political Orders in Transition, in: Nina Belyaeva & Victor Albert & Dmitry G. Zaytsev (ed.), Protest Publics, pages 83-100, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:socchp:978-3-030-05475-5_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-05475-5_6
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