Citizen resistance movements in Francoist Lleida and strategies of institutional response of the regime (1939-1975)

Abstract

This work aims to analyse the main resistance movements that took place in the city of Lleida during the Franco dictatorship (1939-1975). Thus, we will analyse the evolution of the different mechanisms of cultural resistance that occurred in the city and how these evolved as the socio-political and cultural context of the city and the country change. To do this, we will contextualize each moment to understand the relationship between the different urban and social realities and the new forms of citizen mobilization that appeared. At the same time, we will analyse the way in which the Franco’s regime responded to these sociocultural initiatives promoted by certain sectors of the population of Lleida, and what kind of initiatives it did in order to articulate a new cultural current and the scope of a provincial thought.