Public Humanities and the Spanish Civil War: Connected and Contested Histories

by Alison Ribeiro de Menezes (Editor), Antonio Cazorla-Sïnchez (Editor), Adrian Shubert (Editor)

Overview

This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines contemporary public history’s engagement with the Spanish Civil War. The chapters discuss the history and mission of the main institutional archives of the war, contemporary and forensic archaeology of the conflict, burial sites, the affordances of digital culture in the sphere of war memory, the teaching of the conflict in Spanish school curricula, and the place of war memory within human rights initiatives. Adopting a strongly comparative focus, the authors argue for greater public visibility and more nuanced discussion of the Civil War’s legacy, positing a virtual museum as one means to foster dialogue.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319972749
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	12/12/2018
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	13 MB
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About the Author

Alison Ribeiro de Menezes is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.

Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez is Professor of History at Trent University, Canada.

Adrian Shubert is University Professor of History at York University, Canada.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Public Humanities and the Spanish Civil War, Alison Ribeiro de Menezes.- 2. Sites Without Memory and Memory Without Sites: On the Failure of the Public History of the Spanish Civil War, Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez and Adrian Shubert.- 3. The Spanish Civil War Archive and the Construction of Memory, Jesús Espinosa Romero.- 4. The Historical Memory Records Centre: A Museum for Memory and the Recent History of Spain, Manuel Melgar Camarzana.- 5. Museums and Material Memories of the Spanish Civil War: An Archaeological Critique, Alfredo González-Ruibal.- 6. The Necropolitics of Spain's Civil War Dead, Alison Ribeiro de Menezes.- 7. Thinking Outside the Grave: The Material Traces of Republican Lives Before the Spanish Civil War, Layla Renshaw.- 8. Visualizing Mass Grave Recovery: Ritual, Digital Culture and Geographic Information Systems, Wendy Perla Kurtz.- 9. Digitally Mediated Memory and the Spanish Civil War, Paul Spence.- 10. The Spanish Civil War in the Classroom:From Absence to Didactic Potential, María Feliu Torruella.- 11. Veiling and Exhuming the Past: Conflict and Postconflict Challenges, Jordi Palou-Louverdos.

 

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“A fascinating, intelligent and interdisciplinary approach to the Spanish Civil War seen from the perspective of the Public Humanities. The disciplines of History, Memory, Museology, Archeology, Education and Transitional Justice are all brought to bear on the most famous and studied civil war of the 20th century. This volume argues not only for a true understanding of that conflict but for the imperative of bringing this to a broad audience, transcending the academic world.” (Joan Maria Thomàs, Professor of History, University Rovira-Virgili, Spain)

“Spain needs to face the conflictive legacies of Francoism. This book is an excellent guide for understanding how the heavy weight of this 40-year old dictatorship continues to affect Spanish democracy.” (Ignacio Fernández de Mata, author of Lloros vueltos puños. El conflicto de los 'desaparecidos' y vencidos de la guerra civil española (2016))