‘Living Normally’: Everyday Life Under Salazarism

In this article we propose a problematizing overview of daily life under the Salazarist dictatorship (1926–1974), linking corporative, educational and propagandistic contexts. We examine how institutionalized, controlled, negotiated and/or repressed leisure was spread throughout smallest interstices in Portugal. also analyse dichotomous realities policies for people elites (in education reading, cultural production, circulation consumption), women men (social roles), etc., compromises with an expanded mass culture. The directs attention to specific examples sociocultural negotiations between civil society state, as happened sports (para-)folkloristic festivities parades (e.g. ‘popular marches’) certain culture productions revue theatre, cinema, broadcasting television). Similarly, our ‘bottom-up’ approach focuses on evidence subversive or alternative sociability achievements, demonstrating that, some areas, elements were able express open resistance views dictatorship.