1. Diada de Andalucía. Barcelona, 4 diciembre 1977 © Carlos Bosch, Fototeca ARGRA.
At the fortieth anniversary, one influential project reframed“ transition” as a chronotope: a lived weave of politics, culture, and everyday life. That lens redirected attention from constitutional milestones to the workshop of daily practice— neighborhood assemblies, women’ s groups, print collectives, parish halls, underground cinema— where expectations and languages were rewired. Soon after, another current treated 1974 – 75 as a charged moment: a hinge condensing earlier processes and radiating forward. Between those poles— time-space and moment— recent work prefers to map fields of inquiry rather than police periodization.
Look beneath the constitutional summary and a dense ecosystem appears: youth sociabilities, music and aesthetics, self-organized neighborhoods, second-wave feminism, emerging LGBTQ collectives inventing spaces and vocabularies, cinema and photography testing new ways of seeing. In this register, transition ceases to be a string of back-room deals and becomes a laboratory of ways of life. Change the vantage point and the timeline shifts: what seemed swift institutionally was, culturally, a slow layering in which authoritarian reflexes did not vanish overnight but reassembled themselves in law, habit, and feeling. overview SPAIN IN FREEDOM: 50 YEARS
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