Reconstructing Spain: Cultural Heritage and Memory After Civil War

ISBN-13: 9781845196295 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 336 str.

Dacia Viejo-Rose

Opis

Exploring the role of cultural heritage in postconflict reconstruction whether as a motor for the prolongation of violence or as a resource for building reconciliation this book centers on the material practices and rhetorical strategies developed around cultural heritage in post civil war Spain and the victorious Franco regime s reconstruction. The analysis seeks to capture a discursively complex set of practices that made up the reconstruction and in which a variety of Spanish heritage sites were claimed, rebuilt or restored, and represented in various ways as signs of historical narratives, political legitimacy, and group identity. To ascertain the possible impact of post civil war reconstruction in the medium term, the book examines two time frames: the period of political transition that followed General Franco s death in 1975; and the period 2004 2008, when Rodriguez Zapatero s government undertook initiatives to recover the historic memory of the war and dictatorship. The observations made of the Spanish reconstruction are analyzed in terms of how they might reveal general trends in postconflict reconstruction processes in relation to cultural heritage in current situations throughout the world."