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2. The holy city of holidays: Seven theses on the touristification of Spain.
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Méndez, Germán Labrador
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TOURISM ,CULTURAL history ,TOURISTS ,NATIONALISM - Abstract
This paper analyses the notion of the 'city of holidays' in Spain by means of seven theses. Analysed as a transhistorical construction, valid to narrate the cultural history of modern tourism, the 'city of vacations' represents the symbiosis of a constructive model, a nationalist and religious imaginary, and an urban device of patrimonial origin. This construction defines the Spanish tourist paradigm, seen in the long-term, as it constitutes a recurrent- and mutant- fantasy that accompanies the economic and social Modernity associated with tourist development. Although the triumph of the Francoist Spanish vacation model is celebrated in the sixties, it has a much earlier genealogy, which takes us back to the foundational imaginaries of national-Catholicism and its ceremonial places. Born from the romantic discourses of the Restoration, linked to the neo-Catholic sanctuaries, the 'city of vacations' reemerges after the Civil War as a central part of the patrimonial discourse of the new Regime. There, the accumulation of capital at the base of the so-called 'tourist miracle' comes directly from the violence of Franco's repression, including slave labour. At the same time, this model responds to the new economic logics of the Cold War framework, where the ecological and environmental cost of this urban model of development, based on itinerancy and mass-circulation, is dissolved. The celebration of the contemporary identity of today's Spain as a global tourist power is carried out at the expense of this violent genealogy, even though such an identity is probably unsustainable in the eco-energetic and social horizon to which we are collectively heading. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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3. Nativist nationalism, cultural homogenisation and bullfighting: VOX’s cultural policy as an instrument for cultural battle (2019–2023)
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Rius-Ulldemolins, Joaquim, Rubio-Arostegui, Juan Arturo, and Pecourt Gracia, Juan
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The extreme right’s influence on cultural politics is an issue that has received limited attention and most studies in this area have focused on the use of history or attitudes towards multiculturalism, although fewer have addressed cultural policy itself. Thus, the emergence of the political party VOX in Spain is analysed in order to shed light on the character of these cultural policies, whether it constitutes a shift towards the extreme right or radical populist right, or it’s a continuation of the attitude towards nationalism and authoritarianism typical of the conservative right. Based on the analysis of electoral programmes and discourses in the general election campaigns and in the two autonomous regions where it is responsible for cultural policy (Castilla and León and Valencian Community), the article finds that VOX has introduced themes of the alt-right and clearly prioritises culture as a tool for cultural battles especially in terms of elements of national identity, such as in the party’s promotion of anti-Catalanism and bullfighting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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4. THE ISLAMIC REACTION TO THE CHRISTIAN CONQUESTS IN IBERIA: THE DEAL OF TERRITORIAL RECOVERY (ELEVENTH-TWELFTH CENTURIES).
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GARCIA-SANJUAN, ALEJANDRO
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CHRISTIANS ,MUSLIMS ,SENSES - Abstract
Heavily biased by ideological prejudices, traditional Spanish scholarship claimed the existence of sharply divergent approaches between Iberian Christians and Muslims about the perception of the land and the feelings that got them bound to it. Gathered around a shared national project, the Christians would have held highly stable emotional bonds to the land they lived in. Propelled by a strong sense of attachment to their territories, they would have fought tirelessly over eight centuries to recover the lands previously seized by the Muslims. Lacking a similar sense of belonging to the land, the Muslims, bound by agnatic and religious ties, would have considered themselves just temporary dwellers. However, a careful reading of the Arabic sources suggests the existence of parallels regarding the recovery of lost lands. This article seeks to provide compelling textual evidence about the idea of land recovery among the Muslims across the 11 th and the 12th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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5. Spain on show. Nationalism and internationalism in the presentation of the 12th october holiday under the post-war Francoism
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García Sebastiani, Marcela Alejandra and García Sebastiani, Marcela Alejandra
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Resumen en español. Desde comienzos del siglo XX, el 12 de octubre representa el recuerdo del hispanoamericanismo en la identidad nacional española. Enriquecida de versiones, la nostalgia del imperio y la proyección internacional han construido el mito de un españolismo con vocación universalista útil a la regeneración política, la cohesión social y la diplomacia. Este artículo analiza la versatilidad del símbolo durante la dictadura franquista de posguerra y focaliza la atención en la puesta en escena de la fiesta cívica en 1940 y 1947. Reflejo de las culturas políticas falangista y nacional católica, de repartos de esferas de poder y de interpretaciones contradictorias, se estudian los contextos y la internacionalidad de la celebración, el despliegue en el espacio público, los actores implicados y los contenidos de las exposiciones efímeras complementarias a ritual público en Madrid y, por su trasfondo transnacional, en Buenos Aires. Se demuestra cómo los registros culturales del nacionalismo español asociados a la fecha, como la epopeya americana y la lengua de Cervantes, se actualizaron y resignificaron en exposiciones públicas para la invención de identidades según coyunturas políticas e intereses internacionales., Since the early twentieth century the celebration of the 12 October, the anniversary of Columbus’ first landing, has served as a reminder of the importance of Spain’s links with the Americas as a part of Spanish national identity. Nostalgia for empire and the resulting image of international importance, enriched with diverse narratives, have helped build a myth of a Spanish identity with universal ambitions, one useful for political regeneration, social cohesion and diplomacy. This article analyzes the versatility of this symbol under the Franco dictatorship in the post-Civil War years, centering upon its public presentations in 1940 and 1947. Open to contradictory interpretations, these celebrations reflected the different Falangist and National-Catholic political cultures, and the distribution of areas of power. We will examine their contexts, their international impact, their representation in public space, the actors involved, and the exhibitions that complemented public rituals in Madrid and, given the event’s transnational significance, in Buenos Aires. We will also indicate the ways in which cultural symbols of Spanish nationalism associated with the day, such as the Conquest of the Americas or the language of Cervantes, were updated and given new meanings as part of the invention of identity, depending on political circumstance and international objectives., Depto. de Historia, Teorías y Geografías Políticas, Fac. de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología, TRUE, pub
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6. A stage for nations: Spain and Latin America on display in the twentieth century
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Taylor & Francis Group, García Sebastiani, Marcela Alejandra, Quaggio, Giulia, Taylor & Francis Group, García Sebastiani, Marcela Alejandra, and Quaggio, Giulia
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Número monográfico preparado para proyecto de investigación MINECO (Gobierno de España) HAR2016-75002P: La nación en escena : Símbolos, conmemoraciones y exposiciones: España y América Latina (1890-2010). Duración: 2017-2020. Investigadores responsables: Javier Moreno Luzón-Marcela García Sebastiani. Avances de investigación presentados en reuniones académicas: 1) Coloquio internacional. La nación en escena: símbolos, conmemoraciones y exposiciones, entre España y América Latina (1890-2010), Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid, 26 y 27 de octubre de 2017. Actividad académica del Proyecto de investigación MINECO (Gobierno de España) HAR2016-75002P. 2) Coloquio internacional. El momento centenario entre América Latina y España. Proyectos: CENTAMESP (Casa de Velázquez, Madrid, EA 4083 (CLEA, Sorbonne Université), HAR 2016-75002-P (Gobierno de España), y ECOS-Sud Francia A17C02 y Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva de la República Argentina, Casa de Velázquez, Madrid, 23 y 24 de enero de 2020., The present dossier collects a series of multidisciplinary empirical essays on the entangled relationship between Spanish identity and exhibits. Since the nineteenth century Spain has been both a participant and a venue for universal exhibitions, confronting itself with an imagery dramatically divided between traditional representations and an advocated modernity. Despite being a country incapable of competing economically with other western imperial powers, the case of Spain has a particular interest because of its cultural diversity, nostalgia for a past great empire and presentation as an exotic frontier between West and East, North and South of the world. The research studies carried out here mostly focus on the international scope of exhibitions and cover different transnational phenomena, inserting different imagined communities in wider and more ambitious spaces in Europe and Latin America. Notably, some exhibitions convert into special instruments for shaping collective identities in an interconnected Hispanic world in which posimperial Spanish national identity is a reference to link countries and continents. Ultimately, all the essays move away from the examination of exhibitions as public arenas of symbolic conflict between different identity proposals as singular places of collective memory., Depto. de Historia, Teorías y Geografías Políticas, Fac. de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología, TRUE, pub
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- 2024
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