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For hundreds of years, Barcelona and Madrid have shared a deep rivalry. Throughout history, they have competed in practically every aspect of social life, sport, politics, and culture. While competition between cities is commonplace in many nations around the world, in the case of Barcelona and Madrid it has been, on occasion, excessively antagonistic. Over time they have each tried to demonstrate that one was more modern than the other, or more avant-garde, or richer, or more athletic, and so on. Fortunately, the Spain of today is a democracy and every nation and region of the State has the liberty to act. As such, the rivalry between these two capitals has become productive not only for the cities themselves, but also for Spain as a whole. One hundred years ago, at the onset of the Historical Avant-Garde in Spain, the connections between Barcelona and Madrid consisted of a complicated web of politics, friendships, publications, and inter-art collaborations. Over the last century, the antagonistic relationship between these two cultural capitals has been dismissed as simply a fact of life and thereby scholars, for the most part, have focused only on Barcelona or Madrid when addressing this cultural moment. By delving deep into the myriad of cultural and political complexities that surround these two cities from the onset of Futurism (1909) to the arrival of Surrealism in Spain (1929), a complex social and cultural network is revealed. Networking between artists, poets, journalists and thinkers connected avant-garde Barcelona and Madrid, thereby creating synergy for this artistic and literary movement. In a hybrid, transdisciplarian, translingual and historical approach using a wide range of visual and textual artifacts, the complexity of interactions described here opens our imagination to new ways of thinking about culture.
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Thinking Barcelona
Thinking Barcelona studies the ideological work that redefined Barcelona during the 1980s and adapted the city to a new economy of tourism, culture, and services. The 1992 Olympic Games offered to the municipal government a double opportunity to establish an internal consensus and launch Barcelona as a happy combination of European cosmopolitanism and Mediterranean rootedness. The staging of this municipal “euphoric postpolitics,\" which entailed an extensive process of urban renewal, connects with the similarly exultant contexts of a reviving Catalan nation, post-transitional Spain, and post-Cold War globalization. The transformation of Barcelona, in turn, contributed to define the ideologies of globalization, as the 1992 Games were among the first global mega-events that celebrated the neoliberal “end of history.\" Three types of materials are examined: political speeches and scripts of the Olympic ceremonies, with special focus on Xavier Rubert de Ventós’s screenplay for the reception of the flame in Empúries; the urban renewal of Barcelona directed by architect Oriol Bohigas; and fictional narratives by Quim Monzó, Francisco Casavella, Eduardo Mendoza, and Sergi Pàmies. This juxtaposition of heterogeneous materials pursues some type of postdisciplinary decoding linked to a strictly Marxist premise: the premise that correlations between different superstructural elements shed light on the economic instance. In this study, Barcelona emerges as a singular conjuncture overdetermined by global capitalism, but is also a space to reflect on three main problematics of postmodern globalization: the spectralization of the social in a fully commodified world; the contradiction between cosmopolitanism and the state; and the vanishing essence of the city.
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The rough guide to Barcelona
\"A guidebook to Barcelona. It gives you the finest coverage of Barcelona's historical sights and famous architecture, including the magnificent Gaudi creations like the Sagrada Familia, and also has a keen eye for offbeat attractions and in-the-know sights, from quirky museums to neighbourhood markets, city beaches to urban parks.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Anarchist Inquisition
The Anarchist Inquisition
explores the groundbreaking transnational human rights
campaigns that emerged in response to a brutal wave of repression
unleashed by the Spanish state to quash anarchist activities at the
turn of the twentieth century. Mark Bray guides readers
through this tumultuous era-from backroom meetings in Paris and
torture chambers in Barcelona, to international antiterrorist
conferences in Rome and human rights demonstrations in Buenos
Aires.
Anarchist bombings in theaters and cafes in the 1890s provoked
mass arrests, the passage of harsh anti-anarchist laws, and
executions in France and Spain. Yet, far from a marginal
phenomenon, this first international terrorist threat had profound
ramifications for the broader development of human rights, as well
as modern global policing, and international legislation on
extradition and migration. A transnational network of journalists,
lawyers, union activists, anarchists, and other dissidents related
peninsular torture to Spain's brutal suppression of colonial
revolts in Cuba and the Philippines to craft a nascent human rights
movement against the \"revival of the Inquisition.\" Ultimately their
efforts compelled the monarchy to accede in the face of
unprecedented global criticism.
Bray draws a vivid picture of the assassins, activists,
torturers, and martyrs whose struggles set the stage for a
previously unexamined era of human rights mobilization. Rather than
assuming that human rights struggles and \"terrorism\" are inherently
contradictory forces, The Anarchist Inquisition analyzes
how these two modern political phenomena worked in tandem to
constitute dynamic campaigns against Spanish atrocities.
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RETRACTED: The Commodification Dilemma: Tourism Pressure and Heritage Conservation in Barcelona
In recent years, the proliferation of tourists in the urban environment has generated several issues in the functioning of cities. As urban tourism has historically been linked to cultural and architectural attractions, this increased tourism pressure has involved and often compromised the common heritage uses. Therefore, many cases saw the implementation of measures that, if on the one hand reduced tourist flows, on the other also drastically restricted the access for residents and totally altered the sense of place in the community. This article explores this topic by applying a Critical Discourse Analysis methodology to the dispute that took place in Barcelona regarding the restricted access to Park Güell. The main results of this work concern the instrumentalisation of both the UNESCO label and participatory processes in the case of Barcelona, along with the failure of regulative measures to solve the problems related to tourism pressure. The article advocates the usage of more qualitative-oriented analyses to address the relationships between urban planning, heritage management and tourism management.
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