Producing History in Spanish Civil War Exhumations: From the Archive to the Grave

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Zahira Aragüete-Toribio

Producing History in Spanish Civil War Exhumations

From the Archive to the Grave

Zahira Aragüete-Toribio

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English

Springer International Publishing AG
24 November 2017

Historiography; European history; Spanish Civil War

Series: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence

This book reflects on the new histories emerging from the exhumation of mass graves that contain the corpses of the Republicans killed in extrajudicial executions during and after the conflict, nearly eighty years after the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). In the search for, location and unearthing of these unmarked burials, the corpse, the document and the oral testimony have become key traces through which to demand the recognition of past Francoist crimes, which were never atoned, from a lukewarm Spanish state and judiciary. These have become objects of evidence against the politics of silence entertained by national institutions since the transition to democracy. Working alongside archaeologists, historians, memory activists and families, this book explores how new versions of the history of the killings are constructed at the cross-roads between science, history and family experience. It does so considering the workings of truth-seeking in the absence of criminal justiceand the effects of the process on Spanish collective memory and identity.

By: Zahira Aragüete-Toribio
Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 4.602kg
ISBN: 9783319612690
ISBN 10: 3319612697
Series: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
Pages: 257
Publication Date: 24 November 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Zahira Aragüete-Toribio is currently Postdoctoral Researcher in the ‘Right to Truth, Truth(s) through Rights: Mass Crimes Impunity and Transitional Justice’ project funded by the Swiss National Fund and hosted at the Law Department of the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Reviews for Producing History in Spanish Civil War Exhumations: From the Archive to the Grave

In this timely volume, Zahira Araguete-Toribio examines civil society forensic exhumations of Spanish Civil War dead in Extremadura, the region of western Spain where the author grew up. ... a major ethnographic contribution to the ways forensic science prompts new historical imaginations in the twenty-first century. Anthropologists, human rights scholars, and anyone interested in the increasingly contested terrain of historical production will find many provocative insights throughout this compelling text. (Jonah S. Rubin, EuropeNow, europenowjournal.org, October, 2018)