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A Time after a Setback: Persistent Reverberations of the Carnation Revolution

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Cadernos do Arquivo Municipal Nº 21

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Published on Monday, February 20, 2023

Summary

At a time when there will be multiple proposals for perspectives on the fiftieth anniversary of April 25, 1974, a revolution marked by a euphoria that surpassed the day before and that surprised the day after, in an unlocking of the future, we suggest a look at the threshold of several disciplines in this cross-sectional issue of Cadernos do Arquivo Municipal, between the social and human sciences, the arts, literature and other forms of intervention in reality, through four areas.

Announcement

Argument

The call for articles for the Thematic Dossier “A time after a setback: persistent reverberations of the Carnation Revolution” is open until June 30, 2023.

When time accelerates, the present seems to remain beyond the possibility of being experienced as such, and evades towards the future. The moments in which history rushed are rare, but striking, marked through public policies of memory that inscribe them in the calendar of holidays, in toponymy and public statuary, in school books in which history is learned. This happened in Portugal with the 25th of April 1974, which put an end to a dictatorship and, at the same time, incorporated a potential for hope and encouragement. As a transitional format for democracy that shook power structures, it expanded the field of possibilities. The eagerness for change would also manifest itself in the artistic domains, reconfigured in line with the course of the revolutionary process, whose protagonists mirrored in their activity the various collective aspirations of the moment.

In addition to the jammed time and guided by the colonial war, which triggered the end of Portuguese fascism, and whose effects are still felt today, moments emerged after the 25th of April 1974, associated with ways of building a country that left a trail of hope in a new order. They led to the nationalization of banking and strategic sectors of the economy, to agrarian reform in the fields of the South, to the occupation of houses and factories, to the SAAL, to the Medical Service to the Periphery, to literacy and health education campaigns, to the Student Civic Service, the MFA's Promotional and Civic Action Campaigns, the reorganization of companies and universities. They transformed the dynamics of migrant communities scattered across Europe and the world, with the return of thousands of Portuguese who had gone into exile fleeing the colonial war and for other political and economic reasons. They also led to important changes in the media and in the production and dissemination of artistic practices once concealed by state censorship.

As Antonio Gramsci noted, history is always contemporary – that is, political. At a time when there will be multiple proposals for perspectives on the fiftieth anniversary of April 25, 1974, a revolution marked by a euphoria that surpassed the day before and that surprised the day after, in an unlocking of the future, we suggest a look at the threshold of several disciplines in this cross-sectional issue of Cadernos do Arquivo Municipal, between the social and human sciences, the arts, literature and other forms of intervention in reality, through four areas:

1) a more historiographical one, which addresses the main political and social transformations that occurred in Portugal during the revolutionary period, from the proliferation of party organizations, to changes in state configuration and public institutions, to the end of the Colonial War, to agrarian reform.

2) another one, based on the "legacy" of April, its memorialization and consequent attempts to "sterilize" its subversive potential, which intersects with the usually called "crisis of utopias".

3) the transformations that occurred in the local universe of artistic practices, from music to cinema, also affecting the transformations in the main means of communication.

4) the impact of the 25th of April on emigration and immigration.

Scientific coordination

  • Paula Godinho (FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)
  • Ricardo Andrade (FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa)

Instructions to Authors

Submission of articles and book reviews to Cadernos do Arquivo Municipal are temporarily made through the journal's e-mail: am.cadernos@cm-lisboa.pt

Cadernos do Arquivo Municipal does not charge any fees for the submission process, as well as for peer review, publication and availability of the texts.

Deadline: until June 30, 2023

Submissions: am.cadernos@cm-lisboa.pt

Instructions to authors

Publication Ethics: https://cadernosarquivo.cm-lisboa.pt/index.php/am/etica

Conditions for submission

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check the compliance of the submission against all items listed below. Submissions that do not conform to the standards will be returned to the authors.

  • The submission is original, has not been previously published and parts from other works must be duly referenced. It is not before another journal for consideration or an explanation has been provided in "Comments to the Editor".
  • Only texts using the template for submissionwill be accepted.
  • Language of the text in Portuguese (with the new orthographic agreement), Spanish, French or English. Title, abstract and keywords in the language of the text, in English and Portuguese. Abstract with a maximum of 150 words and up to 5 keywords.
  • 10000 words limit for articles and 2000 for book reviews, considering footnotes and bibliographical references.
  • Maximum of 10 images, although this limit may be changed by the Editors. All images, tables and charts sequentially numbered, with a caption associated (example: A ground floor plan of Wandsworth County Court in 1858, held among the records of the Office of Works and its successors. UK National Archives, WORK 30/758) and its exact location in the text. Images should be mentioned in the text. From the Lisbon Municipal Archives may be used in accordance with their availability on the website. Those that do not belong to the Lisbon Municipal Archives must be delivered in separate files, either in JPEG or TIFF.

Places

  • Lotes 3-6, piso 0 - Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa, Rua B ao Bairro da Liberdade
    Lisbon, Portugal (1070-017)

Date(s)

  • Friday, June 30, 2023

Attached files

Keywords

  • 25 de abril, revolução, memória, sociedade, Portugal

Contact(s)

  • Marta Gomes
    courriel : am [dot] cadernos [at] cm-lisboa [dot] pt

Information source

  • Marta Gomes
    courriel : am [dot] cadernos [at] cm-lisboa [dot] pt

License

CC0-1.0 This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.

To cite this announcement

« A Time after a Setback: Persistent Reverberations of the Carnation Revolution », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Monday, February 20, 2023, https://calenda.org/1051293

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