A partir de una entrevista de Aníbal Núñez para Triunfo, el artículo describe someramente el proyecto desmitificador de algunos poemas de la España tardofranquista que ensayaron, mediante el ...procedimiento de la apropiación, una crítica de la creciente erotización publicitaria de las relaciones de consumo. En contraste con estos poemas, se analiza la poco estudiada obra de Alfonso López Gradolí Quizá Brigitte Bardot venga a tomar una copa esta noche (1971) que, pese a compartir con aquellos poemas temas, motivos y técnicas, constituye una contribución lírica a la mitificación que la figura de Brigitte Bardot sufrió durante el desarrollismo y que la convirtió en un símbolo de la cultura del destape. El carácter pretendidamente experimental de la obra de Gradolí es sometido a examen mediante su lectura política como contribución a la dudosa modernización moral y cultural que para la España tardofranquista supuso la exhibición espectacular de cuerpos femeninos en anuncios, películas y revistas.
If the history of queer subjectivities is regularly transferred to the history of the democratization of post-Franco Spain, considering it as a symptom of the logics of democratic inclusion, this ...article explores their advent in Spain in the 1970s in the light of their moral exclusions outside civil citizenship. The «private sphere» guaranteed by the Constitution, experienced by these subjectivities, is understood in this contribution as immune technology that contributes to the cutting of the field of post-Franco politics, that refuses the irruption of queer affects within the dominant public space. The article contributes to a biopolitical history of regime change in Spain which, contrary to the logics of recognition, opens a process of disintegration, in democracy, of conflicting political and ethical communities for the moral order of civil citizenship instituted in 1978.
This collection of essays explores the ways in which Iberian cultural production has constructed kings and queens since 1975. Our focus is the royal figure who inherits their status and power through ...'blood' and justifies their power invoking the transcendental mystique of monarchic sovereignty. In one way or another, the figures of Juan Carlos I and his son Felipe VI permeate all cultural representations of monarchical rule produced during the democratic period; and these representations shape our political understanding of the two kings and become a site to contest hegemonic understandings of Spanishness, post-Francoist Spain and Iberian political communities.
During the 1930s, the Catalan cooperative movement finally became a movement of the masses, but Franco's victory in the Civil War put an end to its expansion and to almost the whole movement. This ...article charts the consumer cooperatives' fortunes in the Barcelona Province during the first 20 years of the new regime. It covers Francoist policies towards consumer cooperatives and the obstacles these and the bleak economic situation presented, focusing on the work of the organization created by the new National Syndicalist state apparatus: the Barcelona Territorial Union of Consumer Cooperatives (UTECO).
This Afterword to the special section on Science Popularization in Francoist Spain draws general conclusions from its case studies. Most overarchingly, the different contributions show that ...popularization existed under this dictatorial regime, and hence does not require a Habermasian liberal-democratic public sphere. Four more specific lessons are also drawn, each shedding new light on either science popularization or dictatorial regimes. (1) Popularization has not only been a way to promote science, it has also been used to prop up dictatorial regimes by associating them with things scientific. (2) Totalitarian regimes are much less monolithic than they appear to be at the surface; they often harbor internal weaknesses and conflicts. (3) The study of science popularization in dictatorships can help open our eyes for comparable forms of propaganda in democracies. (4) Totalitarianism is best understood not as a universal phenomenon, but in its specific historical situatedness. Studying science popularization under Franco brings out the specific traits of this regime: the legacy of the Civil War, Spanish regionalism, and the international dependencies of the Francoist state.
Abstract Lead arsenate was introduced on a massive scale in agriculture in Spain in the early 1940s. With the support of a network of agricultural engineers, the new Francoist state encouraged the ...production and use of lead arsenate as the main weapon against a newly arrived pest, the Colorado potato beetle. In this paper I discuss arsenical pesticides as sociotechnological products which played a pivotal role in the joint production of both chemical-based agriculture and the emerging Francoist regime in Spain during the 1940s. I review the campaigns organized by agriculture engineers and the making of the new National Register for Phytosanitary Products in 1942. The new regulations promoted research in pesticide quality control but also contributed to concealing the health hazards. This invisibilization of the risks took shape in the confluence of interests of the emerging Francoist state, the new pesticide industry, and the large network of agricultural engineers.
Camus at Combat Camus, Albert; Lévi-Valensi, Jacqueline; Goldhammer, Arthur ...
11/2023
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Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night.
Against a vast backdrop of water and stone, on both sides of a
river awash with history, freedom's barricades are once again being
erected. ...Once again justice must be redeemed with men's blood.
Albert Camus (1913-1960) wrote these words in August 1944, as Paris
was being liberated from German occupation. Although best known for
his novels including The Stranger and The Plague ,
it was his vivid descriptions of the horrors of the occupation and
his passionate defense of freedom that in fact launched his public
fame. Now, for the first time in English, Camus at
'Combat' presents all of Camus' World War II resistance and
early postwar writings published in Combat , the resistance
newspaper where he served as editor-in-chief and editorial writer
between 1944 and 1947. These 165 articles and editorials show how
Camus' thinking evolved from support of a revolutionary
transformation of postwar society to a wariness of the radical left
alongside his longstanding strident opposition to the reactionary
right. These are poignant depictions of issues ranging from the
liberation, deportation, justice for collaborators, the return of
POWs, and food and housing shortages, to the postwar role of
international institutions, colonial injustices, and the situation
of a free press in democracies. The ideas that shaped the vision of
this Nobel-prize winning novelist and essayist are on abundant
display. More than half a century after the publication of these
writings, they have lost none of their force. They still speak to
us about freedom, justice, truth, and democracy.
En este artículo pretendemos mostrar la conformación de un dispositivo de la discapacidad en la España del tardofranquismo. Para ello, y tras unos breves apartados de introducción metodológica y ...conceptual, analizaremos los discursos y mecanismos destinados al gobierno de la discapacidad en tres ámbitos de análisis: el económico, el médico-social y el pedagógico. El análisis de estos discursos y mecanismos, entendidos en su conexión tanto con elementos previos como con dinámicas internacionales contemporáneas al momento estudiado, nos permitirá examinar y exponer las particularidades de este dispositivo en el periodo propuesto. El artículo concluirá con una serie de consideraciones finales que han de servir de marco interpretativo para ulteriores aproximaciones a escenarios de estudio más concretos.
Si l’histoire des subjectivités queer est régulièrement reversée dans celle de la démocratisation de l’Espagne post-franquiste à l’aune des logiques d’inclusion démocratique, cet article explore leur ...avènement dans l’Espagne des années 1970 à la lumière des logiques morales d’exclusion hors de la citoyenneté civile. La «sphère privée» garantie constitutionnellement, éprouvée par ces subjectivités, est analysée dans cet article en tant que technologie immunitaire participant au découpage du champ de la politique post-franquiste qui refuse l’irruption d’affects queer dans l’espace public dominant. L’article ouvre une histoire biopolitique du changement de régime en Espagne où, à rebours des logiques de reconnaissance, s’engage la désintégration, en démocratie, de communautés politiques et éthiques conflictuelles avec l’ordre moral de la citoyenneté civile institué en 1978.
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