Democracy builders’

Conflictivity and democratic learning in the educational and cultural spheres during the late-Francoist and Transition periods

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ID12936337
AuthorsGloria Román Ruiz (0000-0003-4102-3076, ISNI: 0000000122931605 RICH, Radboud University and ISNI: 0000000403693076 NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume34
Issue1
Pages65-86
Publication date2021-03-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Iberian Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1758-9150 • E-ISSN: 1364-971X
PublisherIntellect (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1386/ijis_00037_1
OpenAlexW3162359618
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited10

The early 1960s in Spain saw the beginnings of a cycle of protest against the dictatorship of Francisco Franco that would end by rendering its continuity unviable after the dictator’s death in 1975. The process of building democracy was undertaken bidirectionally, both from ‘above’ and from ‘below’, and it involved multiple actors. This article pays special attention to those ‘democratizing agents’ in civil society who acted in the cultural and educational spheres, as teachers, students, protest singers or members of the cultural centres and neighbourhood associations that emerged at that time, especially in rural Andalusia. It argues that through day-to-day micro-conflicts and micro-mobilizations, those actors acquired and transmitted civic–democratic guidelines and values

Civil society · Democracy · Dictator · Dictatorship · Neighbourhood (mathematics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History of Education in Spain · Law · Spanish Culture and Identity · Spanish History and Politics

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