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\"Stanley Black and Alvaro Jaspe offer a fresh look at Spain's dynamic transition from pariah state to key European Union player. The book covers the historical, political, cultural and social events that have shaped Spain's evolution from the end of the Spanish Civil War through to the aftermath of the March 2004 Madrid bombing and the early years of the government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero\"--Provided by publisher.
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Lost in Transition: Constructing Memory in Contemporary Spain
This book examines how the political period in Spain following Franco's death, known as the Transición, is being remembered by a group of writers, filmmakers and TV producers born in the sixties and early seventies. Reading against the dominant historical account that celebrates Spain’s successful democratisation, this study reveals how recent television, film and fiction recreate this past from a generational perspective, linking the experience of the Transición to the country’s present political and financial crises. Privileging above all an emotional connection, these artists use personal feelings about the past to analyse and revisit the history of their coming-of-age years. Lost in Transition considers the implications of adopting such a subjective positioning towards history that encourages an unending narrative, always in search of more meaningful and intimate connections with the past. Taking into account recent theoretical approaches to memory studies, this book proposes a new look at the production of memory in contemporary Spain and its close relationship to popular culture, shifting the focus from what is remembered to how the past is recalled affectively to be made part of an ongoing and enduring everyday experience.
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2021
Este volumen es una reflexión sobre cómo el 23-F, un evento fundamental en la historia española contemporánea y en la Transición, ha ido transformándose en su narrativa, y cómo dicho cambio se ha gestado en la producción cultural y artística a lo largo de cuatro décadas.
Dividido en ocho capítulos, se analizan novelas, películas, series de televisión, documentales, obras de teatro e instalaciones escultóricas bajo la perspectiva de qué obras reaccionan y cuáles accionan, entendiendo como obras reactivas aquellas que continúan con el statu quo sin generar perspectivas distintas, frente a las obras activas que posibilitan nuevos enfoques y aproximaciones alternativas con el paso del tiempo.
En definitiva, esta edición es una invitación a que el/la lector/a revisite las narrativas establecidas sobre el 23-F y asimismo se acerque a otros modos de (re)presentarlo, para tener una experiencia más completa del acontecimiento y sus implicaciones.
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Spain : the trials and triumphs of a modern European country
\"Spain's transition to democracy after Franco's long dictatorship was widely hailed as a success, ushering in three decades of unprecedented progress and prosperity. Yet over the past decade its political consensus has been under severe strain. A stable two-party system has splintered, with disruptive new parties on the far left and far right. No government has had a majority since 2015. Michael Reid overturns the stereotypical view of Spain as a country haunted by its Francoist past. From Catalan separatism and the indignados movement to the Spanish economy's overdependence on tourism and small business, Spain's challenges can often seem unique. But Reid is careful to emphasize the many pressures it faces in common with its European neighbors--such as austerity, populism, and increasing polarization. The result is a penetrating yet rounded portrait of a vibrant country--one that is more often visited than understood\"-- Publisher's description.
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Democracy Without Justice in Spain
Spain is a notable exception to the implicit rules of late twentieth-century democratization: after the death of General Francisco Franco in 1975, the recovering nation began to consolidate democracy without enacting any of the mechanisms promoted by the international transitional justice movement. There were no political trials, no truth and reconciliation commissions, no formal attributions of blame, and no apologies. Instead, Spain's national parties negotiated the Pact of Forgetting, an agreement intended to place the bloody Spanish Civil War and the authoritarian excesses of the Franco dictatorship firmly in the past, not to be revisited even in conversation. Formalized by an amnesty law in 1977, this agreement defies the conventional wisdom that considers retribution and reconciliation vital to rebuilding a stable nation. Although not without its dark side, such as the silence imposed upon the victims of the Civil War and the dictatorship, the Pact of Forgetting allowed for the peaceful emergence of a democratic state, one with remarkable political stability and even a reputation as a trailblazer for the national rights and protections of minority groups.Omar G. Encarnación examines the factors in Spanish political history that made the Pact of Forgetting possible, tracing the challenges and consequences of sustaining the agreement until its dramatic reversal with the 2007 Law of Historical Memory. The combined forces of a collective will to avoid revisiting the traumas of a difficult and painful past and the reliance on the reformed political institutions of the old regime to anchor the democratic transition created a climate conducive to forgetting. At the same time, the political movement to forget encouraged the embrace of a new national identity as a modern and democratic European state. Demonstrating the surprising compatibility of forgetting and democracy, Democratization Without Justice in Spain offers a crucial counterexample to the transitional justice movement. The refusal to confront and redress the past did not inhibit the rise of a successful democracy in Spain; on the contrary, by leaving the past behind, Spain chose not to repeat it.
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Unearthing Franco's Legacy
Unearthing Franco's Legacy: Mass Graves and the Recovery of
Historical Memory in Spain addresses the political, cultural,
and historical debate that has ensued in Spain as a result of the
recent discovery and exhumation of mass graves dating from the
years during and after the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). The victor,
General Francisco Franco, ruled as a dictator for thirty-six years,
during which time he and his supporters had thousands of political
dissidents or suspects and their families systematically killed and
buried in anonymous mass graves. Although Spaniards living near the
burial sites realized what was happening, the conspiracy of silence
imposed by the Franco regime continued for many years after his
death in 1975 and after the establishment of a democratic
government.
While the people of Germany, France, and Italy have confronted
the legacies of the repressive regimes that came to power in those
countries during the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, the unearthing of the
anonymous dead in Spain has focused attention on how Spaniards have
only recently begun to revisit their past and publicly confront
Franco's legacy. The essays by historians, anthropologists,
literary scholars, journalists, and cultural analysts gathered here
represent the first interdisciplinary analysis of how present-day
Spain has sought to come to terms with the violence of Franco's
regime. Their contributions comprise an important example of how a
culture critiques itself while mining its collective memory.
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