Citation:
Valiente Fernandez, Celia (2015). Social movements in abeyance in non-democracies: The Women's Movement in Franco's Spain. Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change. Reino Unido: Emerald Group Publishing Limited. Pp. 59-290
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European Commission Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
Sponsor:
This work was supported by the Commission of the European Communities (contract number FP6-CIT4-028746) and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (grant number HAR2012-32539).
Serie/No.:
Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change 38
Project:
info:eurepo/grantAgreement/EC/FP6/CIT4/028746 Gobierno de España. HAR2011-27540
ABSTRACT: Social movements experience periods of intense activity and periods of abeyance, when collective action is very weak because of an inhospitable political climate. Non-democracies are extreme cases of hostile political environments for social movementABSTRACT: Social movements experience periods of intense activity and periods of abeyance, when collective action is very weak because of an inhospitable political climate. Non-democracies are extreme cases of hostile political environments for social movements. Drawing on a case study of the women's movement in Franco's Spain (mid-1930s to 1975) based on an analysis of published documents and 17 interviews, this paper argues that some non-democracies force social movements that existed prior to dictatorships into a period of abeyance and shape collective organizing in terms of location, goals, and repertoire of activities. Some social movements under prolonged non-democratic rule manage to link and transmit the aims, repertoire of activities, and collective identity of pre-dictatorship activists to those of post-dictatorship activists. This occurs mainly through cultural activities.[+][-]