Spanish Society After Franco
Title | Spanish Society After Franco PDF eBook |
Author | S. Mangen |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2001-08-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1403940215 |
Spanish Society After Franco investigates the origins of collective social welfare from the early nineteenth century, to set the context for an analysis of contemporary social policy from the perspective of economic and political trends since the transition of democracy in the mid-1970s. The review of policy evolution is complemented by an examination of the critical impact of social change, particularly the decline of the power of the church, regional devolution, the gender dimension and social exclusion.
Spanish Society After Franco
Title | Spanish Society After Franco PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen P. Mangen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Spain |
ISBN | 9781349397037 |
Spanish Society After Franco investigates the origins of collective social welfare from the early nineteenth century, to set the context for an analysis of contemporary social policy from the perspective of economic and political trends since the transition of democracy in the mid-1970s. The review of policy evolution is complemented by an examination of the critical impact of social change, particularly the decline of the power of the church, regional devolution, the gender dimension and social exclusion.
Disremembering the Dictatorship
Title | Disremembering the Dictatorship PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2021-08-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9004483225 |
Most accounts of the Spanish transition to democracy have been celebratory exercises at the service of a stabilizing rather than a critical project of far-reaching reform. As one of the essays in this volume puts it, the “pact of oblivion,” which characterized the Spanish transition to democracy, curtailed any serious attempt to address the legacies of authoritarianism that the new democracy inherited from the Franco era. As a result, those legacies pervaded public discourse even in newly created organs of opinion. As another contributor argues, the Transition was based on the erasure of memory and the invention of a new political tradition. On the other hand, memory and its etiolation have been an object of reflection for a number of film directors and fiction writers, who have probed the return of the repressed under spectral conditions. Above all, this book strives to present memory as a performative exercise of democratic agents and an open field for encounters with different, possibly divergent, and necessarily fragmented recollections. The pact of the Transition could not entirely disguise the naturalization of a society made of winners and losers, nor could it ensure the consolidation of amnesia by political agents and by the tools that create hegemony by shaping opinion. Spanish society is haunted by the specters of a past it has tried to surmount by denying it. It seems unlikely that it can rid itself of its ghosts without in the process undermining the democracy it sought to legitimate through the erasure of memories and the drowning of witnesses' voices in the cacaphony of triumphant modernization.
Spanish Society After Franco
Title | Spanish Society After Franco PDF eBook |
Author | S. Mangen |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2001-08-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780333654620 |
Spanish Society After Franco investigates the origins of collective social welfare from the early nineteenth century, to set the context for an analysis of contemporary social policy from the perspective of economic and political trends since the transition of democracy in the mid-1970s. The review of policy evolution is complemented by an examination of the critical impact of social change, particularly the decline of the power of the church, regional devolution, the gender dimension and social exclusion.
Franco's Spain
Title | Franco's Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Stanley G. Payne |
Publisher | |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
A thorough look at social, political and economic aspects of Spain between 1939 and the sixties.
Spanish Politics
Title | Spanish Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Omar G. Encarnación |
Publisher | Polity |
Pages | 207 |
Release | 2008-07-08 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0745639925 |
An introductory textbook on contemporary Spanish politics, this book shows how Spain made a smooth transition from authoritarian to democratic rule, each chapter dealing with a different aspect of this process. The book goes on to analyse the consequences of the socialist administration of Zapatero.
Exhuming Franco
Title | Exhuming Franco PDF eBook |
Author | Sebastiaan Faber |
Publisher | Vanderbilt University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2024-02-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0826501745 |
Through dozens of interviews, intensive reporting, and deep research and analysis, Sebastiaan Faber sets out to understand what remains of Francisco Franco's legacy in Spain today. Faber's work is grounded in heavy scholarship, but the book is an engaging, accessible introduction to a national conversation about fascism. Spurred by the disinterment of the dictator in 2019, Faber finds that Spain is still deeply affected—and divided—by the dictatorial legacies of Francoism. This new edition, with additional interviews and a new introduction, illuminates the dangers of the rise of right-wing nationalist revisionism by using Spain as a case study for how nations face, or don't face, difficult questions about their past.