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Reconstructing Spain - Cultural Heritage and Memory After Civil War (Paperback)
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Reconstructing Spain - Cultural Heritage and Memory After Civil War (Paperback)
Series: LSE Studies in Spanish History
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This book explores the role of cultural heritage in post-conflict
reconstruction, whether as a motor for the prolongation of violence
or as a resource for building reconciliation. The research was
driven by two main goals: first, to understand the post-conflict
reconstruction process in terms of cultural heritage, and second,
to identify how this process evolves in the medium term and the
impact it has on society. The Spanish Civil War (193639) and its
subsequent phases of reconstruction provides the primary material
for this exploration. In pursuit of the first goal, the book
centres 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. The reconstruction of the town of Gernika is a
particularly emblematic instance of destruction and a significant
symbol within the Basque regions of Spain as well as
internationally. By examining Gernika it is possible to identify
some of the trends common to the reconstruction as a whole along
with those aspects that pertain to its singular symbolic resonance.
In order to achieve the second goal, the processes of selection,
value change and exclusionary dynamics of reconstruction and the
responses it elicits are examined. Exploring the possible impact of
post-civil war reconstruction in the medium term is conducted in
two time frames: the period of political transition that followed
General Franco's death in 1975; and the period 20042008, when
Rodriguez Zapatero's government undertook initiatives to 'recover
the historic memory' of the war and dictatorship. Finally, the
observations made of the Spanish reconstruction are analysed in
terms of how they might reveal general trends in post-conflict
reconstruction processes in relation to cultural heritage. These
insights are pertinent to the situations in Cambodia, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Afghanistan and Iraq.
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