Collective memory of the Spanish civil war: The case of the political amnesty in the Spanish transition to democracy

1997 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 88-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paloma Aguilar
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Spanish Transition

Teatri della memoria. Rivisitando il revisionismo in Spagna

2009 ◽  
pp. 30-41
Author(s):  
Javier Rodrigo
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Spanish Transition ◽  
Memory Recovery ◽  
The One

- A few years after it initiated, the so-called ‘revisionist offensive' in Spain seems to have produced questionable results. On the one hand, its arguments have failed to enter professional historiography; on the other hand, however, its unquestionable sell and media popularity have turned it into a social phenomenon. In addition, historians have not reached an agreement about how to reply to it. Finally, on both sides, the definition, the origins and the limits of the phenomenon do not seem to have been the object of discussion. This is what we intend to analyse in this article. Key words: Revisionism, Negationism, Spanish Civil war, collective memory, Spanish transition to democracy, ‘memory recovery'.

scholarly journals Los espacios de la memoria en la sociedad actual: teoría e historia”. Crónica de la jornada de estudios del 8 de mayo de 2014 / “The Place of Memory in Current Society: Theory and History”. Chronicle of the Study Session Held on 8 May 2014

2017 ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Pablo Aguirre Herráinz
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Spanish Transition ◽  
Study Session ◽  
Family Memories ◽  
The University

This article reviews the study session held on 8 May 2014 at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) under the title “The place of Memory in Current Society: Theory and History”. Promoted by Historiografias, revista de historia y teoría and the Project of research “The memory of the Spanish Civil War during the Spanish Transition to Democracy”, four Spanish specialists, Professors Manuel Reyes Mate, Pedro Piedras Monroy, Francisco Erice Sebares, and Santiago Ripol Carulla, discussed the topic of memory and its challenges in current society.Key wordsNational memories, collective and family memories, hermeneutic remembrance, politics of memory, Historical Memory.ResumenEl presente artículo reseña la jornada de estudios celebrada el pasado 8 de mayo de 2014 en la Universidad de Zaragoza, titulada “Los espacios de la memoria en la sociedad actual: teoría e historia”. Promovida por Historiografias, revista de historia y teoría y por el Proyecto, “La memoria de la guerra civil española durante la transición a la democracia”, cuatro especialistas, los profesores, Manuel Reyes Mate, Pedro Piedras Monroy, Francisco Erice Sebares y Santiago Ripol Carulla, disertaron sobre el tema de la memoria y sus desafíos en la sociedad actual.Palabras claveMemorias nacionales, memorias colectiva y familiar, recuerdo hermenéutico, políticas de la memoria, Memoria Histórica.

From Ideological to Humanistic Interpretations

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-260
Author(s):  
Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Paradigms ◽  
The Cold War

The recent evolution of both the historiography on the Spanish Civil War, and even the general population's perception of the conflict, cannot be separated from the changes in the political and cultural paradigms in Europe since the end of the Cold War. By this I mean that Europeans, but not only them, have been evolving from a mostly ideological view of the past to an increasingly humanistic one.

Memory and Politics in Democratic Spain

2020 ◽  
pp. 46-61
Author(s):  
Omar G. Encarnación
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
The Political ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
Franco Regime ◽  
Political Class ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Right

This chapter explains the persistence of Spain’s ‘politics of forgetting’, a phenomenon revealed by the wilful intent to disremember the political memory of the violence of the Spanish Civil War and the human rights abuses of General Franco’s authoritarian regime. Looking beyond the traumas of the Civil War, the limits on transitional justice and truth-telling on the Franco regime imposed by a transition to democracy anchored on intra-elite pacts, and the conciliatory and forward-looking political culture that consolidated in the new democracy, this analysis emphasizes a decidedly less obvious explanation: the political uses of forgetting. Special attention is paid to how the absence of a reckoning with the past, protected politicians from both the right and the left from embarrassing and inconvenient political histories; facilitated the reinvention of the major political parties as democratic institutions; and lessened societal fears about repeating past historical mistakes. The conclusion of the chapter explains how the success of the current democratic regime, shifting public opinion about the past occasioned by greater awareness about the dark policies and legacies of the Franco regime, and generational change among Spain’s political class have in recent years diminished the political uses of forgetting. This, in turn, has allowed for a more honest treatment of the past in Spain’s public policies.

Memory and Amnesia. The Role of the Spanish Civil War in Transition to Democracy

Hispania ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 502
Author(s):  
Antonio Sobejano-Morán ◽  
Paloma Aguilar
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Transition To Democracy

scholarly journals The Nurses No-One Remembers: Looking for Spanish Nurses in Accounts of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-92
Author(s):  
Sioban Nelson ◽  
Paola Galbany-Estragués ◽  
Gloria Gallego-Caminero
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
Second Republic ◽  
Skilled Nursing ◽  
War Effort ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Franco Dictatorship ◽  
International Volunteer

Accounts of Spanish nursing and nurses during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) that appear in the memoirs and correspondence of International Brigade volunteers, and are subsequently repeated in the secondary literature on the war, give little indication of existence of trained nurses in country. We set out to examine this apparent erasure of the long tradition of skilled nursing in Spain and the invisibility of thousands of Spanish nurses engaged in the war effort. We ask two questions: How can we understand the narrative thrust of the international volunteer accounts and subsequent historiography? And what was the state of nursing in Spain on the Republican side during the war as presented by Spanish participants and historians? We put the case that the narrative erasure of Spanish professional nursing prior to the Civil War was the result of the politicization of nursing under the Second Republic, its repression and reengineering under the Franco dictatorship, and the subsequent national policy of “oblivion” or forgetting that dominated the country during the transition to democracy. This policy silenced the stories of veteran nurses and prevented an examination of the impact of the Civil War on the Spanish nursing profession.

scholarly journals The Scenes of Memory during the Era of the Democratic Transition in Spain: Politics and Culture / Los escenarios de la memoria durante la transición democrática en España: política y cultura

2017 ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Gonzalo Pasamar
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Democratic Transition ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
Political Strategies ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Generational Changes ◽  
The Way

In this article we shall examine the scenes of memory of the Civil War and the Franco era during the years of the transition to democracy in Spain, especially 1976 and 1977. After discussing the usefulness for research of the narratives describing the role played by such remembrances, we study the different interplays between memories and oblivions of those historical events. Instead of using memory and oblivion as static and predetermined ideas as is normally the case with such narratives, we highlight the dynamic elements that help organize them (generational changes, culture, political strategies, etc.). While culture became a fertile ground for the remembrance of the Civil War and the Franco era, politics was clearly obliged to limit its use because of the way the transition evolved.Key Words:Memory, Spanish Civil War, Transition, generation gap.ResumenEn el presente artículo examinamos los escenarios de la memoria de la Guerra Civil y del franquismo durante los años de la transición a la democracia en España, especialmente 1976 y 1977. Tras discutir la utilidad de las narrativas que han dado cuenta del papel que tales recuerdos han jugado durante de la Transición, estudiamos la interrelación entre los recuerdos y los olvidos de dichos acontecimientos históricos. En lugar de utilizar la memoria y el olvido como ideas predeterminadas y estáticas, subrayamos los elementos dinámicos de ambos (cambios generacionales, cultura, estrategias políticas, etc.). Defendemos que mientras la cultura llegó a convertirse en un terreno destacado para la evocación de la Guerra y el franquismo, la política se trazó a sí misma una serie de límites en el uso de dicha evocación debido al modo en que se desarrolló la propia Transición.Palabras clave:memoria, guerra civil española, Transición, brecha generacional

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