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Author(s): | Vidal, F. |
Date: | 2015 |
Title: | Sociability and collective action in a Lisbon workingclass neighbourhood: the social representations of Alcântara in the early twentieth century |
Volume: | 14 |
Number: | 2 |
Pages: | 143 - 156 |
ISSN: | 1476-413X |
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | 10.1386/pjss.14.2.143_1 |
Keywords: | Industrialization Lisbon neighbourhood Republicanism Sociability Urbanization |
Abstract: | In the second half of the nineteenth century, the peripheral area of Alcântara became one of Lisbon’s most important industrial centres. Its economic development was accompanied by a massive growth in population. As this area became urbanized and industrialized, the representations of the neighbourhood also changed. Withina few decades, Alcântara ceased to be associated with the image of a remote suburb, a place that had no clearly defined boundaries or a space defined solely in terms of its industrial function. This article presents the Alcântara neighbourhood as a case study that helps us understand how collective practices shape new representations of city and urban life. The objective of this article is to analyse the role of a republican voluntary association - the Society for the Promotion of Popular Education (Promotora-Sociedade Promotora de Educação Popular)-in transforming the representations associated with the Alcântara neighbourhood in the early twentieth century. During this period, Promotora helped shape different levels of ‘collective representations’ of Alcântara; it also contributed to the formation of an authentic urban lifestyle at the neighbourhood level, drawing attention to people who represented the local community and speaking on their behalf |
Peerreviewed: | yes |
Access type: | Open Access |
Appears in Collections: | CRIA-RI - Artigos em revistas científicas internacionais com arbitragem científica |
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