A collection of essays illuminating the specificity of Spain’s postcolonial condition while offering a new look at Spain's internal national conflict.
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 scope. Postcolonial Spain: Coloniality, Violence and Independence is the first book in Spanish (Peninsular) studies to engage with the question of independence as a major structuring factor in post-1898 Spanish culture and politics. It 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. It addresses 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.
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 scope. Postcolonial Spain: Coloniality, Violence and Independence is the first book in Spanish (Peninsular) studies to engage with the question of independence as a major structuring factor in post-1898 Spanish culture and politics. It 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. It addresses 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.
256 pages | 1 halftone | 5.43 x 8.5 | © 2024
Iberian and Latin American Studies
History: European History
Political Science: Political and Social Theory
Table of Contents
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