Author: dchaves

  • Community Workshop: Transnational narrative (Corporatism) Portugal

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    SolRem’s Community Workshops aims to educate and raise awareness about the history of resistance and solidarity against right-wing authoritarianism and dictatorships. This community workshop This community workshop focused on the conception, implementation and characteristics of Portuguese corporatism during the Estado Novo. The different approaches brought by the two speakers created the opportunity to provide a…

  • Community Workshop: Ethnicities in conflict – Finland

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    Konfliktit ja niiden kanssa työskentely dialogisesti nuorisotyössä  21.-22.2.2024 Globaalikeskus, Helsinki, Finland Contents: Dialogue as an approach and a tool to analyse tensions and conflicts in society and work to transform them Agenda of the event: Wednesday 21.2.2024 9-13 am: Dialogic work with complex issues and expert input from Bernard Le Roux Lunch 14.00 – 17.00:…

  • Community Workshop – Antifascism Spain

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    BARCELONA, 14 NOVEMBER 2023 Overview On November 14, 2023, a community workshop on ANTIFASCISM about Nou Barris district  was held in the Barcelona together with 17 people who were part of civil society organisations. It was chosen to hold a workshop in this district because it has been one of the two areas where the…

  • Report 4 – Finland

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    Teaching and Curricula on the Far-Right Introduction When history teachers across Finland convened for the first time in 1935, more than 17 years after the Finnish Civil War, the problem of mono-perspectivity in Finnish history education was never acknowledged as such. Rather, the guidelines for teaching history at the time were rooted in the nationalist…

  • Report 3 – Italy

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    Report on heritage practices concerning far-right movements Introduction  This research is based on the analysis of Italian places and monuments as symbols of celebration of the fascist regime and built mostly under the regime: it will also provide an overview on Italian far-right movements’ narratives on these heritage, along with the use of this latter…

  • Report 3 – Finland

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    Report on heritage practices concerning far-right movements Introduction Historically, memory has been an important political resource for various far-right groups both in and outside Europe because of its perceived value as a source of motivation for  political action1. As suggested by a growing body of academic work, this is still the case  today: far-right political…

  • Report 2 – Romania

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    Report on collective memory practices concerning the right-wing A Restrictive History  Introduction In 2020, the unexpected triumph of the new AUR Party (Alliance for the Union  of Romanians) in the Parliamentary elections in Romania triggered controversies. This  is a nationalist organisation that often uses far-right notions of exclusion and purity46 and their sudden ascent triggered…

  • Report 2 – Portugal

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    Portugal: Far-Right and Practices of Memory Introdução When, at the turn of the 20th century into the 21st, the post-fascist far-right phenomenon suddenly gained media attention and significant electoral expression, the Iberian Peninsula seemed relatively immune to the emergence of significant parties or movements from this political camp. For years, the Iberian exception was talked…

  • Report 2 – Italy

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    Report on collective memory practices concerning the right-wing Far-Right and memory practices in Italy Introduction  The report about attitudes towards the collective memory of resistance against far-right regimes or practices and specific narratives in collective memory in Italy traces the impact of these in the  current society and the social problems it’s facing nowadays.  It…

  • Report 2 – Spain

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    Report on collective memory practices concerning the right-wing Report on the extreme right’s public appearances within collective memory Introduction Theoretical framework  Politics cannot be understood without the existence of a symbolic system. Symbols are  the basic unit for its transmission as well as its recreation. As the complexity of societies increases, so does politics. Thus,…