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Writing Letters to the State: The Normalization of Salazar's Political Police
| Resumo: | Duncan Simpson discusses a letter of denunciation written to the political police during Salazar’s dictatorship in Portugal. Simpson shows how the letter—written by a woman entreating the police to investigate the morality and the politics of her husband-to-be—demonstrates the complexity of the relationships between individuals and the dictatorial state, something that a more top-down, zoomed-out analytical lens may fail to reveal. |
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| Autores principais: | Simpson, Duncan |
| Ano: | 2025 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | capítulo de livro |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | Duncan Simpson discusses a letter of denunciation written to the political police during Salazar’s dictatorship in Portugal. Simpson shows how the letter—written by a woman entreating the police to investigate the morality and the politics of her husband-to-be—demonstrates the complexity of the relationships between individuals and the dictatorial state, something that a more top-down, zoomed-out analytical lens may fail to reveal. |
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