MEMORIAL SITES IN POST-FASCIST SOUTHERN EUROPE.

Abstract

In 1936 in La Barranca (La Rioja, Spain), the bodies of approximately 400 people killed by the Francoist repression of the Spanish Civil War were buried in three ditches without marking. Thanks to the Mujeres de Negro or Women in Black, who confronted and defied the authority in order to pay tribute to their dead, La Barranca became a site of memory during the Francoist dictatorship. In this paper, I look into the different images and representations of the Mujeres de Negro and their exhibition in different settings. First, I examine the implications of the exhibition “Mujeres de Negro” in different places outside La Barranca with 64 photographs of the women. I also analyze the presence of one replica of the statues of two Mujeres de Negro in the exhibition “El Tragaluz Democrático” held in Madrid and commissioned by the State Secretary for Democratic Memory. These representations are particularly interesting to consider as they pay a tribute to these women at different levels, as a kind of memory of memory practice from different positions, be it local associations or state institutions.

Bio

Zoé de Kerangat (PhD, 2020) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Contemporary History Department of the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Madrid, Spain). Her PhD dissertation analyzes the exhumations of the remains of the victims of Francoist repression in the 1970s and 1980s in Spain. She is a member of the R&D project “NECROPOL: Más allá del Subtierro: del giro forense a la necropolítica en las exhumaciones de fosas comunes de la guerra civil”. Her book “Remover cielo y tierra” will be published in 2023. She co-authored the article “The limits of remembrance during the Spanish Transition: Questioning the ‘Pact of Oblivion’ through the analysis of a censored film and a mass-grave exhumation” (Memory Studies, 2020).

DEMOCRATIC VISIONS FOR A CONFLICTIVE HERITAGE. THE CINEMATIC "COUNTER-MEMORY" OF THE VALLEY OF THE FALLEN (1978-2016)'

María José Romero-Ternero & Maria C. Puche-Ruiz (Universidad de Sevilla)

Abstract

This paper focuses on the understanding of a "space of memory" such as the Valley of the Fallen through the nine films in which it appears. To this end, a methodology has been designed to analyse its symbolism, staging and representation during the democratic period using NVivo software. The results corroborate the existence of a cinematographic "counter-memory" that is nourished by the subversive narrative surrounding the monument and that can help future generations to know not only how it has affected their present, but also how to coexist with it in the future.

Bios

María José Romero-Ternero
University of Seville mromero32@us.es
Orcid: 0000-0001-5383-1973 M.J. Romero Ternero is an independent collaborator (researcher), PhD in Tourism and Anthropology with International Mention in collaboration with York St. John University. She is a member of the HAVRC (Heritage and Arts Visitor Research Collaborative) Steering Group at York St. John University (UK) and the emerging research group TIC-247 (SICA) ASTERISM (Art Science Technology Engineering Research: Innovation, Synergies and Methodologies) at the University of Seville. M.J. Romero Ternero has focused her research interests on Mediation Strategies and Transdisciplinarity from an ethnographic perspective.

Maria C. Puche-Ruiz University of Seville mpuche@us.es
Orcid: 0000-0003-3689-0183 Maria C. Puche-Ruiz received her PhD in Geography from the University of Seville (2019), where she was a Predoctoral Fellow (2014-2018), after having obtained a University Teacher Training Grant by the Spanish Government. She was awarded the prestigious Best Thesis Award in Humanities ("Tourism and Territorial Identity. Cinema as a tool for the analysis of Tourism in Andalusia [1905-1975]" by the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain (2020) and is now on a postdoctoral fellowship supported by the Andalusian Regional Government. She is a member of the research group "Territorial and Tourist Studies" (University of Seville), and is part of the international R&D group "CITur" ("Cinema, Imaginary and Tourism", University of Valencia). Since 2018, Maria is part of the team of several projects highlighting the relationship between tourism and cinema and actively participates in the international editorial project "Vi@ Tourism Review", carried out by EA 7337 EIREST (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), where she was a visiting fellow during the period 07/2021-12/2021.

IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS OF SITES OF MEMORY IN SEVILLE (SPAIN). DISSEMINATION AND HERITAGE INTERPRETATION STRATEGIES

Maria C. Puche-Ruiz, Pilar Díaz Cuevas & Alfonso Fernández Tabales (Universidad de Sevilla)

Abstract

This work aims to focus on the sites of memory of Seville (Spain) and give them visibility within the framework of the new Law of Democratic Memory (2022). To this end, up to 60 significant places have been identified from various sources and, subsequently, characterised and classified typologically. It should be noted that the main objective of this project is to disseminate those spaces that marked the beginning of the Civil War and the Post-war period, making citizens aware that the siege of Seville was not as easy as a parade, as it was usually communicated in the past. For this reason, it is considered necessary to use eminently visual applications (geocaching, wikiloc, storymaps) so that citizens rediscover the sites of memory of Seville and incorporate them into the symbolic imaginary through the interpretation of heritage, the innovative education of students and the rigorous narration of historical events.

Bios

Pilar Díaz-Cuevas University of Seville pilard@us.es
Orcid: 0000-0003-0846-9930 D. in Geography, full university professor, she is a member of the research group Territorial and Tourism Studies. Her lines of research are linked to the management of spatial data, through the use of Territorial Information Technologies -relational spatial databases, spatial data models, Geographic Information Systems, Geostatistics, among others- with various applications to highlight: Tourism and analysis of the impacts of climate change; Analysis of territorial potentialities for the implementation of renewable energies; Management and analysis of large spatial databases (Cadastre, Longitudinal Register of the Andalusian Population, others); Design and development of web geovisors and other tools for the visualisation and consultation of geographic information and territorial indicators.

Alfonso Fernández Tabales University of Seville aftabales@us.es
Orcid: 0000-0003-3330-2286 He obtained in the competitive process held on 7/11/2017 at the University of Seville the position of Professor. Currently Director of the PhD Programme in Geography at the University of Seville. Alfonso Fernández Tabales has focused his professional and academic career on the relationships between territory and development processes at local and regional scale, and especially in recent years on the problems associated with increasing urbanisation and land occupation. He is currently principal investigator of the research project entitled "Spatial impacts of touristification in urban areas. New digital tools for diagnosis and management", Ministry of Science and Research.