Lugares de memoria y disputa. El significado de las fosas comunes

[EN] Since 2000, mass graves have been one of the key components of discourses on «Historical Memory.» This paper analyses their meaning on the basis of an interdisciplinary methodology. The mass grave is analysed as a sign of repression, that in the 1970s began to be re-signified through actions of...

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Autor: Palacios González, Daniel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/402739
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/402739
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Civil War
Francoism
Transition
Historical memory
Monuments
Memorials
Exhumations
Guerra Civil
Franquismo
Transición
Memoria histórica
Monumentos
Memoriales
Exhumaciones
Collective memory
Funerary monuments
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Sumario:[EN] Since 2000, mass graves have been one of the key components of discourses on «Historical Memory.» This paper analyses their meaning on the basis of an interdisciplinary methodology. The mass grave is analysed as a sign of repression, that in the 1970s began to be re-signified through actions of remembrance on the very mass graves and, eventually, after exhumation. Those actions carried out around them, since the year 2000 –with the emergence of the notion of «Historical Memory»– are also analysed. Finally, the unsettling character of these re-significations of the mass graves is pointed out due to different social actions of rejection. The paper concludes by considering that the actions around mass graves have become a subject for dispute on the meaning of past