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Crosses of Memory and Oblivion
This book explores the history and legacy of monuments to the fallen from the Francoist side in the Spanish Civil War. Del Arco Blanco studies thousands of monuments in towns and cities across Spain to provide a detailed account of the history and memory of the civil war, Francoism, and the transition to democracy. Chapters in the book focus on the myth of those said to have 'fallen for God and for Spain'—a phrase that encapsulated and shaped the dichotomy between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Spaniards. They also focus on the use of monuments to control political and ideological ideals and to legitimise the Francoist dictatorship. Further chapters study Spanish society’s struggle to deal wit...
Securing Africa
This meticulously researched, forcibly argued and accessibly written collection explores the many and complex ways in which Africa has been implicated in the discourses and politics of September 11, 2001. Written by key scholars based in leading institutions in Canada, the United States, the Middle East and Africa, the volume interrogates the impact of post-9/11 politics on Africa from many disciplinary perspectives, including political science, sociology, history, anthropology, religious studies and cultural studies. The essays analyze the impact of 9/11 and the 'war on terror' on political dissent and academic freedom; the contentious vocabulary of crusades, clash of civilizations, barbarism and 'Islamofascism'; alternative genealogies of local and global terrorism; extraordinary renditions to black sites and torture; human rights and insecurities; collapsed states and the development-security merger; and anti-terrorism policies from George W. Bush to Barack Obama. This is a much-needed meditation on historical and contemporary discourses on terrorism.
Basques, Today
Ramón Zallo offers us with this informative book an overall synthesis of Basque culture, society and history. Thanks to its contents it may be destined to become a road map for understanding some keys about the country of the Basques. The author starts from a broad concept of Basque culture which, while it is not very well known, is proportionally very rich for such a small country. He conceives it as a whole culture and as having a history of its own, although it is very closely related to its surroundings. And its trajectory indicates the need to prioritize its development and singularity in this global world full of uncertainty. In Part One he traces (and vindicates) the cultural and spa...
Ending ETA's Armed Campaign
This book explains how and why the Basque separatist armed group ETA decided to end its armed campaign against the Spanish state. The ETA’s armed campaign for Basque independence lasted fifty years and led to more than 800 casualties. This book analyzes the factors that led to ETA ending its campaign of violence in 2011, despite having yet to achieve its political objectives. It explains how the Basque pro-independence movement’s political leadership won an internal battle and brought ETA to a position in which abandoning violence was the only feasible choice. The work argues that the key factor leading to the cessation of violence was the loss of support for armed struggle within the pr...
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After the Civil War
The Spanish civil war was fought out not only on streets and battlefields from 1936 to 1939 but also in terms of memory and trauma in the decades that followed. This fascinating book explores how the memory of Spain's bloody civil war has been contested from 1939 to the present.
Ethnicity and Violence
This book provides a genealogy of radical Basque nationalism and the means by which this complex, often violent, political movement has reinforced Basque identity. Radical nationalists are mobilized by a shared frame of reference where ethnicity and violence are intertwined in a nostalgic recreation of a golden age and a quasi-religious imperative to restore that distant past. Muro critically examines the origins of the ethno-nationalist conflict and provides a comprehensive examination of Euskadi Ta Askatusana’s (ETA) violent campaign. The book analyzes the interplay of ethnicity and violence and stresses the role of inherited myths, memories, and cultural symbols to explain the ability of radical Basque nationalism to endure.
National Insecurity and Human Rights
Abstract:
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Loiolako (h)egiak kronika-liburuan 2006an EAJ, Batasuna eta PSEren artean gertaturiko elkarrizketa politikoak eta aldi berean ETAren eta Espainiako Gobernuaren artean izandakoak kontatu zituen Imanol Murua kazetariak. Orain, lan hari jarraipena emanez, elkarrizketa haiek zapuztu zirenetik ETAk borroka armatua behin betiko utzi arteko prozesu guztia aztertu du, isilpean zeuden datu asko agerira ekarriz, eta beste asko analisi bikain batean kokatuz. Gure historia hurbila ezagutzeko ezinbesteko tresna.
Gallarta
Rosario Irisarri y Valentin Abadia se ven obligados a abandonar su pueblo natal. En Lodosa no hay futuro para ellos. La pertinaz sequia no deja lugar a dudas. Otros ya han emprendido el mismo camino antes que ellos. Gallarta, corazon de la zona minera de Bizkaia, reclama mano de obra masiva para la extraccion del hierro. Empreden el viaje a pie, sin apenas mas equipaje que el sueño de in futuro mejor. Sin embargo, pronto perdran toda esa confianza viendo malogrados los mejores años de su vida, muerto su hijo al nacer. En el año 1890 en Gallarta se fraguo una huelga minera sin precedentes donde pararon mas de 2500 trabajadores. Este hecho historico ha inspirado el desenlace de esta novela que tiene para si la cualidad de dejar perpejlo al lector por su audacia y originalidad.
