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Humanitarianism in Times of Democratic Transition: Perspectives from Southern Europe embeds stories of global humanitarian action stemming from the Mediterranean within the context of the parallel democratic transitions in Portugal, Greece and Spain on the aftermath of the 1974-1975 biennium.
The special issue provides a significant focal point for examining how democratisation processes in these three countries influenced and were influenced by humanitarianism. It shows that the transition from authoritarianism to democracy involved new forms of humanitarian action based on active donorship, such as trade union campaigns, projects for political solidarity, and transnational mobilisation for prisoner and refugee rights. With transitional humanitarianism as its central concept, the volume offers a new perspective on the study of democratic transitions and consolidation in direct relation to the shaping of parallel Southern European aid repertoires.
Introduction - Grazia Sciacchitano, Ana Guardião, and Kalliopi Geronymaki
1 Solidarity Networks across Southern Europe: Transnational Trade Union Campaigns for Political Prisoners - Silvia Salvatici
2 Between a Bloc and a Far Place: ‘Humanitarian’ Child Placement and Human Rights amid Greece’s Transition to a Long-Lasting Democracy - Gonda Van Steen
3 From Recipients to Donors: The Politicisation of Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party Humanitarian Aid in Post-Franco Spain (1975–82) - Alan Granadino and Giulia Quaggio
4 The Metapolitefsi and New Meanings of ‘Humanity’: Greek Society between Humanitarianism for Cyprus and Post-1974 Human Rights Vindications - Kalliopi Geronymaki
5 Building Democracy, Sustaining Decolonisation: East Timorese Refugees and Aid Dynamics in Portugal, 1970s–90s - Ana Guardião
6 Aid for Democratic Transitions: The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party’s Intervention in Pinochet’s Chile - Grazia Sciacchitano