Origins. In the protohistory of the neighborhood movement during the francoism

Abstract

This text deals with various approaches to the origins of the urban social movement under Franco, focusing its analysis on the social networks established between the inhabitants of the new suburbs. Thus the text, challenging the image of a movement that would have emerged from the interaction between the urban deficits and the new possibilities offered by the Francoist legal framework from 1964 on, defends instead the centrality of: the generation of shared identities in the new neighborhoods; an autonomous social fabric that built the neighborhoods; and the emergence of new subjects that staged the protest in the residential space. All these elements are presented as activators of a movement that used in various ways the legal tools at its disposal.