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Producing History in Spanish Civil War Exhumations

From the Archive to the Grave

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Authors:
  1. Zahira Aragüete-Toribio

    1. University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

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  • Offers an anthropological study of the recent exhumations of mass graves from the Spanish Civil War
  • Utilises fieldwork data, to offer fresh comment on truth-making efforts in post-Franco and post-transitional Spain
  • Advances a new perspective on exhumation debates by focusing on specific issues of time, history and historiography
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence (WHCCV)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. The Archive, the Story and the Mass Grave

    • Zahira Aragüete-Toribio
    Pages 1-34

  3. Contesting Silence, Reclaiming Historical Memory in Contemporary Spain

    • Zahira Aragüete-Toribio
    Pages 35-68

  4. Visions of War and Postwar History in Extremadura

    • Zahira Aragüete-Toribio
    Pages 69-106

  5. Exhuming the Body of the Unknown

    • Zahira Aragüete-Toribio
    Pages 107-139

  6. Exhuming Familial Remains

    • Zahira Aragüete-Toribio
    Pages 141-176

  7. The Affective Life of Violence

    • Zahira Aragüete-Toribio
    Pages 177-210

  8. Reburial and Commemoration

    • Zahira Aragüete-Toribio
    Pages 211-241

  9. The Exhumation as Emerging Archive

    • Zahira Aragüete-Toribio
    Pages 243-254

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 255-257
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About this book

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.


Reviews

“In this timely volume, Zahira Aragüete-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)​

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    Zahira Aragüete-Toribio

About the author

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Producing History in Spanish Civil War Exhumations

  • Book Subtitle: From the Archive to the Grave

  • Authors: Zahira Aragüete-Toribio

  • Series Title: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61270-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61269-0Published: 24 November 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87038-0Published: 24 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61270-6Published: 14 November 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2730-9630

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-9649

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 257

  • Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Modern Europe, Modern History, Memory Studies, Social History, Political History

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