1. Introduction: Radical democracy, recognition and redistribution:
reinventing democracy and social emancipation in contemporary Portugal 2.
Reinventing Democracy3. Citizen Local Action as a Way of Resistance Against
the New Wave of Worldwide Colonisation: The case of the 'In Loco
Association' in Southern Portugal 4. "Decent Housing for the People": Urban
movements and emancipation in Portugal5. The Territory as Space for
Collective Action: Paradoxes and possibilities of the "strategic game of
actors" in territorial planning in Portugal6. A Town in Protest: Memory,
populism and democracy 7. "Don't Treat Us Like Dirt!": The fight against
the co-incineration of hazardous industrial waste in the outskirts of
Coimbra8. Sexual Orientation in Portugal: Towards emancipation 9. Who Saved
East Timor?: New references for international solidarity 10. Portuguese
Trade-unionism vis-à-vis the European Works Councils 11. The Reinvention of
Labor Unionism and the New Challenges of Emancipation: From local despotism
to global mobilization