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This book narrates how, beginning in 1936, bodies buried in mass graves during the Spanish War and subsequent dictatorship were turned into monuments. The book describes how the production of monuments evolved and what forms this process and these monuments took; it examines how the monuments were incorporated into society and used to influence public opinion; and it argues that this process was not simply based on the formal logic of tradition but instead reflected a conscious plan with a specific and rational end goal. As such, this book puts forward the idea that the monument as a material object became an expression of the historical consciousness of its producers, relating how different actors communicated their memories into meaningful gestures while limited by the material reality of integrating the bodies into a novel artefact. Finally, it contends that the people creating these monuments did not just bury their dead according to a funerary tradition but also sought to influence society.
Contents
Introduction: Et in Arcadia Ego
Chapter One: From Violence to Resistance
A Place in Memory and a Mark on the Landscape
Remembering During the "War" that Began After the War
Mourning Rituals and Resistance
Chapter Two: Recovering Bodies and Places
Back to the Mass Graves in the Struggle for Democracy
Building Monuments on Mass Graves
Bones as a Requirement for Remembrance
Chapter Three: Forensic Turn and the Return to Monuments
Scientific Paradigms and Postmodern Discourses
Post-Exhumation Monument Practices
Returning to Monuments and Politics
Final Chapter: Mass Graves in Dispute
Bibliography
Methodological Appendix
