At the periphery of Portuguese right-wing authoritarian rule, in the Atlantic archipelago of the Azores and its Central Group, political repression remained part of local life in the period after the Second World War. However, in spite of the Portuguese political police being installed in Terceira (in the Central Group) in 1954, this repression remained porous, and many Azoreans used the loopholes for their own advantage. The everyday life history approach allows us to understand these strategies and challenges: it shows how individuals used the internal conflicts amongst the agents of the Portuguese state or the presence of one of the principal US American military bases of the Cold War in Terceira Island. Medical doctors played out their social prestige to defend themselves of accusations, and elites of small towns used the political police to further their own goals. In some extreme cases, profiting from the internal contradictions of the regime even meant committing some small acts of democratic choice on the local level, or mobilizing against an unpopular bishop.

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生活在压制的边缘：亚速尔群岛中央集团的日常生活和隐藏的挑战，1954-1960

在葡萄牙右翼独裁统治的外围，在亚速尔群岛及其中央集团的大西洋群岛，政治镇压仍然是二战后当地生活的一部分。然而，尽管 1954 年在特塞拉（中央集团）设置了葡萄牙政治警察，但这种镇压仍然漏洞百出，许多亚速尔群岛人利用这些漏洞为自己谋取利益。日常生活史方法使我们能够理解这些策略和挑战：它展示了个人如何利用葡萄牙国家特工之间的内部冲突或冷战时期美国主要军事基地之一在特塞拉岛的存在。医生利用他们的社会声望为自己辩护，小城镇的精英利用政治警察来实现自己的目标。在某些极端情况下，从政权内部矛盾中获利，甚至意味着在地方层面做出一些民主选择的小动作，或者动员起来反对不受欢迎的主教。