Abstract

In the study of social movements, the analysis of the interaction between them and the State has gained special relevance. Thus, the analysis of public order management and protest policing became a key element to understand the forms of "non-conventional" political action, mostly thanks to authors such as Donatella della Porta e Olivier Fillieule. Particularly, it showed that the innovations within the context of social movements also led to changes in the strategies to control them. This clearly is what happened in Portugal after the 1962 major academic crisis, which was a turning point in the police control of student, mainly university, places. With these premises, this presentation aims at analysing the impact of the intensification of student protest during Salazarist Portugal, mostly since 1962, on public order control management and protest policing until 1974. The empirical foundation for this analysis will be, mainly, the documentation existing in Pide/DGS and Ministry of the Interior archives, as well as press sources (Diário de Notícias, Diário de Lisboa, etc.).


Biographic Note

Guya Accornero holds a Doctoral Degree in Social Sciences (specialized in Historical Sociology) from the Social Sciences Institute of Lisbon University (ICS-UL) with a dissertation on: “Efervescência Estudantil”. Estudantes, acção contenciosa e processo político nos finais do Estado Novo (in English: "Student agitation": Students, contentious action and political process at the end of New State). Currently, she is a Post-Doctoral researcher on political science at the Centre for Sociology Research and Studies (CIES-ISCTE, Lisbon) and at the Political and International Studies Institute (Institut d'études politiques et internationales) of Lausanne University (IEPI). Her publications include: the special issue "Il Portogallo e la transizione alla democrazia" (in English: Portuguese democratic transition) of the journal Storia e Problemi Contemporanei, together with Alfonso Botti; the papers "La rivoluzione prima della rivoluzione" (in English: The revolution before the revolution) and "La politica di neutralità e la questione dei rifugiati in Portogallo durante la seconda guerra mondiale" (in English: The policy of neutrality and the issue of refugees in Portugal during the Second World War) on the journal Storia e Problemi Contemporanei; and the future special issue on "Acção Contenciosa e Processo Político no Portugal Contemporâneo" (in English: Contentious Action and Political Process in Contemporary Portugal) of Análise Social


Note: Within the VI Annual Cycle Young Social Scientists