Making Monuments from Mass Graves in Contemporary Spain

Resistance through Remembrance

Daniel Palacios González (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

186 Seiten

2024
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
978-90-485-6013-4 (ISBN)

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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 not simply based on the formal logic of tradition but instead reflected a conscious plan with a specific and rational end goal. As such, this book puts forward the idea that the monument as a material object became an expression of the historical consciousness of its producers, relating how different actors communicated their memories into meaningful gestures while limited by the material reality of integrating the bodies into a novel artefact. Finally, it contends that the people creating these monuments did not just bury their dead according to a funerary tradition but also sought to influence society.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	21.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Heritage and Memory Studies
Zusatzinfo	31 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	90-485-6013-6 / 9048560136
ISBN-13	978-90-485-6013-4 / 9789048560134
Zustand	Neuware