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Making Monuments from Mass Graves in Contemporary Spain Resistance through Remembrance
By Daniel Palacios González
Copyright 2024
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book narrates how, beginning in 1936, bodies buried in mass graves during the Spanish War and subsequent dictatorship were turned into monuments. The book describes how the production of monuments evolved and what forms this process and these monuments took; it examines how the monuments were incorporated into society and used to influence public opinion; and it argues that this process was... Read more
Introduction: Et in Arcadia Ego, Chapter One: From Violence to Resistance, A Place in Memory and a Mark on the Landscape, Remembering During the War that Began After the War, Mourning Rituals and Resistance, Chapter Two: Recovering Bodies and Places, Back to the Mass Graves in the Struggle for Democracy, Building Monuments on Mass Graves, Bones as a Requirement for Remembrance, Chapter Three: Forensic Turn and the Return to Monuments, Scientific Paradigms and Postmodern Discourses, Post-Exhumation Monument Practices, Returning to Monuments and Politics, Final Chapter: Mass Graves in Dispute, Bibliography, Methodological Appendix
Biography
Daniel Palacios González is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the UNED, and previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. He got his PhD at the Universität zu Köln as an MSCA Fellow and is a member of the research project NECROPOL at the Universitat de Barcelona. His book De fosas comunes a lugares de memoria (CEPC, 2022) received the Memory Studies Association First Book Award 2023.
