Public Humanities and the Spanish Civil War

This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines contemporary public history's engagement with the Spanish Civil War. The chapters discuss the history and mission of the main institutional archives of the war, contemporary and forensic archaeology of the conflict, burial sites, the affordances of digital culture in the sphere of war memory, the teaching of the conflict in Spanish school curricula, and the place of war memory within human rights initiatives. Adopting a strongly comparative focus, the authors argue for greater public visibility and more nuanced discussion of the Civil War's legacy, positing a virtual museum as one means to foster dialogue.

Furthers understanding of public humanities and digital humanities

Approaches memory studies from a transnational perspective

Highlights the significance of scholarly work in relation to public debates

Autorentext

Alison Ribeiro de Menezes is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.

Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez is Professor of History at Trent University, Canada.

Adrian Shubert is University Professor of History at York University, Canada.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Public Humanities and the Spanish Civil War, Alison Ribeiro de Menezes.- 2. Sites Without Memory and Memory Without Sites: On the Failure of the Public History of the Spanish Civil War, Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez and Adrian Shubert.- 3. The Spanish Civil War Archive and the Construction of Memory, Jesús Espinosa Romero.- 4. The Historical Memory Records Centre: A Museum for Memory and the Recent History of Spain, Manuel Melgar Camarzana.- 5. Museums and Material Memories of the Spanish Civil War: An Archaeological Critique, Alfredo González-Ruibal.- 6. The Necropolitics of Spain's Civil War Dead, Alison Ribeiro de Menezes.- 7. Thinking Outside the Grave: The Material Traces of Republican Lives Before the Spanish Civil War, Layla Renshaw.- 8. Visualizing Mass Grave Recovery: Ritual, Digital Culture and Geographic Information Systems, Wendy Perla Kurtz.- 9. Digitally Mediated Memory and the Spanish Civil War, Paul Spence.- 10. The Spanish Civil War in the Classroom: From Absence to Didactic Potential, María Feliu Torruella.- 11. Veiling and Exhuming the Past: Conflict and Postconflict Challenges, Jordi Palou-Louverdos.