Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004483225 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 258
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Most accounts of the Spanish transition to democracy have been celebratory exercises at the service of a stabilizing rather than a critical project of far-reaching reform. As one of the essays in this volume puts it, the “pact of oblivion,” which characterized the Spanish transition to democracy, curtailed any serious attempt to address the legacies of authoritarianism that the new democracy inherited from the Franco era. As a result, those legacies pervaded public discourse even in newly created organs of opinion. As another contributor argues, the Transition was based on the erasure of memory and the invention of a new political tradition. On the other hand, memory and its etiolation have been an object of reflection for a number of film directors and fiction writers, who have probed the return of the repressed under spectral conditions. Above all, this book strives to present memory as a performative exercise of democratic agents and an open field for encounters with different, possibly divergent, and necessarily fragmented recollections. The pact of the Transition could not entirely disguise the naturalization of a society made of winners and losers, nor could it ensure the consolidation of amnesia by political agents and by the tools that create hegemony by shaping opinion. Spanish society is haunted by the specters of a past it has tried to surmount by denying it. It seems unlikely that it can rid itself of its ghosts without in the process undermining the democracy it sought to legitimate through the erasure of memories and the drowning of witnesses' voices in the cacaphony of triumphant modernization.
Author: Miguel Angel Ruiz Carnicer Publisher: Liverpool University Press ISBN: 1782845429 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 263
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This book brings together recent research by a group of specialists in history and sociology to provide a new reading of the late Franco dictatorship, especially in relation to its political culture. The authors focus on the election of local, trade union and national representatives, the work of the first Spanish sociologists, the struggle over administrative reform, the role of the media and the intellectuals, as well as the evolution of the dictatorships political class and its response to the regimes decline. Not only are the politics of the late dictatorship scrutinised, but also the mechanisms that were deployed to control the fast-changing society of the 1960s and 1970s. In examining the late Franco period, the contributors do not believe that it contained the seeds of Spains later democratisation, but maintain that certain sectorial regime initiatives -- electoral and political changes, an evolving discourse and an interest in political processes outside Spain -- made many Spaniards aware of the dictatorships contradictions and limitations, thereby encouraging its subsequent political and social evolution. This transformation is compared with the latter stages of the parallel dictatorship in Portugal. The great majority of Spaniards felt that the embrace of democratic freedoms and integration into the European Community was the only way forward during the Transition. But the shift from dictatorship to democracy from the 1960s onwards in Spain needs to be understood in relation to the multitude of political and social changes that took place -- despite the opposition of Franco and the bunker mentality of the regime. These changes manifested in a complex interaction between internal and external factors, which eventually resulted in the transformation of Spanish society itself.
Author: Gloria Pilar Totoricaguena Publisher: Center for Basque Studies Press ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 362
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Generations of Basques in New York have vibrantly exercised their culture, language, values, and traditions, transmitting to their children a robust sense of ethnic identity. In today's world of globalization it is often assumed that particular communities are disappearing as a consequence of the factors of homogenization. However, the Basques have proved this false. Depicting Basque mutual aid societies, language courses, musical and dance troupes, cuisine classes, community activities, sport, political involvement, and ties to homeland institutions are just a few of the ingredients which mix to compose the chapters of this work. Readers will learn about the history and reasons why Basques left the Pyrenees of northern Spain and southern France from the personal experiences of political and economic exiles' oral histories. Original archival research allows us to discover the features of the early 1900s Centro Vasco-Americano, the Basque Government-in-exile Delegation in New York, and the development of Basque organizations. "Basqueness" is being redefined in this transnational cosmopolitan community, and with the pioneer spirit of their ancestors, latter generation Basques are nurturing and promoting Basque culture and identity to the world.
Author: Elena del Río Parra Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004392394 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 230
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Exceptional Crime in Early Modern Spain accounts for the representation of violent and complex murders, analysing the role of the criminal, its portrayal through rhetorical devices, and its cultural and aesthetic impact. Proteic traits allow for an understanding of how crime is constructed within the parameters of exception, borrowing from pre-existent forms while devising new patterns and categories such as criminography, the “star killer”, the staging of crimes as suicides, serial murders, and the faking of madness. These accounts aim at bewildering and shocking demanding readers through a carefully displayed cult to excessive behaviour. The arranged “economy of death” displayed in murder accounts will set them apart from other exceptional instances, as proven by their long-standing presence in subsequent centuries.
Author: Rem Koolhaas Publisher: ISBN: Category : Architects Languages : en Pages : 544
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This extensive publication by the Spanish Architectural magazine El Croquis presents a comprehensive overview of the major building projects that Koolhaas and his OMA have created since 1996. It shows conceptual plans, drawings, floor plans, cross-sections, models and photographs of the following projects: Hyperbuilding, Bordeaux House and Pool [The Sustainable House], Port of Genoa, Universal Headquarters Building, 'De Rotterdam' Building [Vertical City], MoCA [Museum of Contemporary Arts, Rome], UN City, Schiphol City [New Concept for the Schiphol Site], Wenner House [The Distributed House], 3 USA Prada Epicenters [in-store Technology, Prada San Francisco Epicenter, Prada New York Epicenter, Prada Los Angeles Epicenter, Astor Place Hotel, Cordoba Congress Center, Flick House I & II, Whitney Museum Extension, LACMA [Los Angeles County Museum of Art], Koningin Julianaplein, CCTV Television Station and Headquarters and TVCC Cultural Center, NATO Headquarters, Deltametropool, European Union and Brussels Study, The McCormick Tribune Campus Center at IIT, H e rmitage Museum Extension, St. Petersburg, Quartier des Halles [Urban Development Study], European Central Bank Headquarters, Netherlands Embassy in Berlin, and the Content Exhibition.
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