Sites of Violence and Memory in Modern Spain: From the Spanish Civil War to the Present Day

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1 ‘Where forgetting resides … ’. Twentieth-century sites of violence and present-day sites of memory: A global vision from the Spanish case Antonio Míguez Macho
	The era of justification
	The era of denunciation
	The era of memory
	So that forgetting does not triumph: What we have done with this work
	Notes
Part 1 Sites of Sentencing and Death
	2 Civil government buildings: Hearts of rebel violence during the Spanish Civil War. The case of Granada Miguel Ángel Del Arco Blanco
		The coup d’etat and civil governments
		The civil government building and surrounding silence
		The civil government and its men in the summer of 1936
		Notes
	3 The staging of ‘formal’ violence: Sentencing sites Conchi López Sánchez
		The distorted use of military justice: The inventio – legal legitimacy of the coup
		Spaces of legal domination: Maritime jurisdiction and land jurisdiction
		Military trials sites and the legal spectacle
		Notes
	4 Memory and forgetting of the ‘paseos’: Places and accounts Xabier Buxeiro Alonso
		Paseos in history: Definition and typology
		Paseos in memory: Absences and tributes
		Paseos and memory policies
		Notes
Part 2 Sites of Confinement and Denial
	5 Francoist concentration camps: Spaces of imprisonment and forced labour Rafael García Ferreira
		An overview on the concentration camps systems
		Spanish concentration camps
		A Francoist concentration camp: The case of Lavacolla
		Memory and forgetting of the Francoist concentration system
		The punishment of the defeated
		Notes
	6 Imprisoned in everyday life: Sites of violence and social control in Franco’s Spain (1936–1950) Claudio Hernández Burgos
		The dictatorship, space and violence
		Controlled spaces, spaces of struggle, redefined spaces
		Post-war communities as spaces of social control
		Notes
	7 Memory alephs: The symbolization of violence through places where ‘Nothing Ever Happens’ Aldara Cidrás
		Memory alephs and the unspeakable
		Case studies: Guernica, Pontevedra, Badajoz and Belchite
		A new map of the memory alephs
		Notes
Part 3 Sites of Memorialization and Conflict
	8 Memory on the walls: Violence, memory and the forgetting of sites of violence during the transition to democracy after Franco’s death Iria Morgade Valcárcel
		Oia and Camposancos, the history of two places
		Prisoner drawings as places of memory
		The evolution of the public policies of memory during the Spanish Transition
		Final reflections
		Notes
	9 Discourses and public policies on memory: The narrative construction of the violent past in the Basque Country (1936–2020) Erik Zubiaga Arana
		The war of 1936
		ETA, the ‘new gudaris’
		Contemporary narratives
		The conflicting management of memory
		Notes
	10 From the courts of Buenos Aires to the walls of Guadalajara: The Argentine Lawsuit against crimes of the Franco regime as a transnational space of memory Marina Montoto Ugarte
		From the Spain of reconciliation to the ‘struggles for historical memory’
		The opportunity of the Argentine Lawsuit
		The Ronda de la Dignidad in Sol as a device at a halfway point
		Comodoro Py and the Spanish National High Court: The judicial institution as recognition or grievance
		The ‘victory’ of the cemetery of Guadalajara: The two deaths and the two exhumations of Timoteo Mendieta
		Notes
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