Postcolonial Spain

Coloniality, Violence and Independence

Helena Miguélez-Carballeira (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2024
University of Wales Press (Verlag)
978-1-83772-105-4 (ISBN)

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At times explosive, at times restrained, the question of independence has been a fundamental force shaping contemporary Spain. However, the discipline of Spanish (Peninsular) studies has been slow to consider the reality of internal anticolonial and self-determination movements in Spain as part of their purview. To redress this, the present study engages postcolonial theory to shed light on the question of Spain’s ongoing internal national conflict, arguing that modern manifestations of such conflict are linked to internal demands for national sovereignty, independence and self-determination forged against the backdrop of Spain’s post-imperial crisis after 1898.

The collection ranges across topics such as late nineteenth-century penitentiary discourses, the biopolitics of Francoist agrarian reform, dispossession and mass tourism in Mallorca, the judiciary aftermath of the Catalan referendum on independence of 2017, and post-ETA memory politics. Collectively, they illuminate the conflict zones of contemporary Spanish culture, where questions related to (contested) internal colonialities and independence are enmeshed with the processes of political emancipation and state repression.

Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction – Helena Miguélez-Carballeira
Otherness and corporal precarity: on the representation of torture in democratic Spain – Juan Albarrán
The Spanish state of Catalan exception: building the necessity for exceptional rule on Catalan independence – Sergi Auladell Fauchs
The persistence of neocolonial logic in Fernando León de Aranoa’s Amador (2010) – Bryan Cameron
Contemporary Majorcan culture and the transnational tourist gaze: colonial dynamics, cultural identity and spatial dispossession – Guillem Colom-Montero
Conflict as a place of consensus: the representation of political violence in Twist (2013) by Harkaitz Cano and Martutene (2012) by Ramon Saizarbitoria – Ibon Egaña Etxebarria
Pakean Utzi Arte: art and resistance in Basque subaltern memories – Amaia Elizalde Estenaga and Ismael Manterola Ispizua
Truncated modernities: Chillida, Tindaya, Fuerteventura – Isaac Marrero-Guillamón
The Spanish rural subject and the Instituto Nacional de Colonización (1939–71): coloniality, biopolitics and memory – Helena Miguélez-Carballeira
Hegemonic memory politics and the Basque Nationalist Party: antifascism and the question of violence – Beñat Sarasola Santamaria
The failed panopticon? Architecture, social projects and the problematic notion of ‘model’ in Barcelona’s Presó Model – Aurélie Vialette

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2024
Reihe/Serie	Iberian and Latin American Studies
Zusatzinfo	Not illustrated
Verlagsort	Wales
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-83772-105-X / 183772105X
ISBN-13	978-1-83772-105-4 / 9781837721054
Zustand	Neuware