Making Monuments from Mass Graves in Contemporary Spain: Resistance through Remembrance

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Daniel Palacios González

Making Monuments from Mass Graves in Contemporary Spain

Resistance through Remembrance

Daniel Palacios González

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Amsterdam University Press
18 July 2024

Memorials, monuments; Museums & museology; History: specific events & topics; Spanish Civil War; Sociology: death & dying

Series: Heritage and Memory Studies

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.

By: Daniel Palacios González
Imprint: Amsterdam University Press
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9789048560134
ISBN 10: 9048560136
Series: Heritage and Memory Studies
Pages: 186
Publication Date: 18 July 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.

Reviews for Making Monuments from Mass Graves in Contemporary Spain: Resistance through Remembrance

“This text is a cutting-edge contribution to Spanish heritage and landscape and memory studies. It is a seminal contribution to the visual and material culture analysis of post-jus bello, i.e., postwar reparative and transitional justice. […] In the context of the current resurgence of proto-fascist and overtly fascist movements in Europe and elsewhere, this project will be a major contribution to the cultural history of Fascism and post-Fascism that is urgently needed today in European public culture.” - Allen Feldman, New York University