Writing Histories of Everyday Life in Authoritarian Regimes, from Europe to the Global South

This article – arising from an ERC-funded project on the lived experiences of dictatorship – explores the development of and approaches to the history of everyday life under repressive political systems, presenting the historiographical, conceptual, and contextual points of contact, synergy, and divergence between historians working in and on Europe, Southern Africa, and Latin America. As a historiographical review article, this piece provides both a critical assessment of and novel intervention in these respective literatures, making the case for ‘decentring’ European histories and historiographies, to encourage greater engagement and collaboration between those working on different historical and geographical contexts

Authoritarianism · Dictatorship · Divergence (linguistics · Everyday life · Historiography · Latin Americans · Politics · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society