This edited collection explores the consequences of the 2008 economic crisis in Southern Europe, focussing on how it affected the interpretation of the past in Spain, Greece and Portugal. The book brings together contributors from history, cultural studies, political science and sociology as it revisits the dominant historical narratives around Southern European transitions to democracy more than forty years since the demise of authoritarian regimes. Here, Spain, Greece and Portugal serve as ideal case studies for the purpose of a transnational analysis due to the similarities in their political and financial conditions as well as the significant social and cultural changes that occurred in the aftermath of the dictatorships, as well as in the academic narratives that were produced. The book further examines the extent to which the crisis shifted our attention towards and perception of other transition-related concepts, as it discusses topics such as public memory, Europeanism and uses of the past by grassroots movements. weiterlesen