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International Journal of Iberian Studies - Volume 14, Issue 1, 2001
Volume 14, Issue 1, 2001
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Collectivisations: The Spanish Revolution Revisited, 193639
By Aurora BoschThis article analyses the agricultural revolution which took place in Spain during the Civil War focusing on Valencia, and attempting to highlight the important role played by the war in the formation and operation of collectives. According to this analysis the amount of land seized and collectivised in Valencia was smaller than in other parts of Spain and there were few cases of libertarian communism or complete collectivisation, but their importance was increased due to the fact that they dealt in export crops, in particular oranges. It was in relation to the export of oranges that the conflicts between individualists and collectivists, between the Communist party and the trade unions were greatest, and they were linked to the controversy surrounding war and revolution. In spite of these conflicts and the organisational deficiencies of collectivised agriculture, the Valencian collectives were more successful than those in other parts of Spain and attempted to solve the conflict with the individualists and adapt to the needs of a war economy.
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The Reconstitution of Political Catalanism 193975
More LessThis article's aim is to analyse the transformations in political Catalanism that took place during the Franco dictatorship (193975). The two pre-Civil War forces of Catalanism, Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya and the Lliga Regionalista, lost their hegemony during the course of the dictatorship. At the regime's end, new forces emerged in Catalonia and, in the terrain of nationalism, Convergncia i Uni became representative of the changes in Catalan political culture that occurred under Franco. By looking closely at the Catalan nationalist opposition to Franco, we will see how this transformation came about.
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The EEC, the Franco regime, and the Socialist group in the European Parliament, 196277
More LessIn February 1962 Spain made its first approach to the EEC and applied for EEC membership. Eight years later, in June 1970, the EEC signed a Preferential Trade Agreement with Spain, something far short of what it had sought. The nature of the Franco regime was the main obstacle in the way of full integration into Europe, which was finally achieved in 1986. This article examines the response of the Socialists in the European Parliament to the Spanish approach to the EEC between 1962 to 1977. The first part will consider the years 196270, from the first Spanish application to the EEC up to the signing of the Preferential Trade Agreement. The Spanish application was challenged on several occasions by the Socialist group, most notably by the intervention of Willi Birkelbach in 1962. The second part will cover the period 197077, up to the first democratic elections in Spain. Although the European Parliament did not have the power to decide on enlargement of the EEC, the Socialist members in particular used it as a forum to criticise the Franco regime's lack of democratic and civil rights credentials for membership.
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An Aesthetic of Industrial Ruins in Bilbao: Daniel Calparsoro's Leap into the Void (Salto al vaco) and Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
More LessThe 1997 inauguration of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao heralded the definitive reconversion of Bilbao's depressed, post-industrial landscape into a European cultural center and tourist hotspot. In the midst of Bilbao's civic beautification project, director Daniel Calparsoro released his first feature film, Leap into the Void (Salto al vaco), shot in the city's most impoverished community. The film's raw, gritty camera-work, coloured filters, and careful manipulation of waste and wreckage in the cinematic image render its story of urban decay tragically beautiful. Likewise, Frank Gehry's design for the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao now hailed as a marvel of postmodern architecture won the museum commission's approval precisely because it integrated and re-created the city's industrial ruins in a more gratifying spectacle of assymetrical metallic curves. This aesthetic of industrial ruins promoted by Bilbao's civic committee sheds light on the meaning and context of Leap into the Void. Conversely, a careful review of the film will come to question the ideological implications of Gehry's chic repackaging of the past.
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Explaining the Populares' Majority: the Spanish general election of 12 March 2000
Authors: Peter Fysh and Neil HughesThis article examines the Partido Popular's victory in the 12 March 2000 Spanish general election. Based on an analysis of the results the idea that the PP's absolute majority constitutes a historic shift of the centre of gravity of Spanish politics from the centre-left to the centre-right is rejected. Instead an alternative explanation of the victory is postulated which emphasises: the favourable economic cycle; the PP's handling of regional nationalism; the inadequacies of the main opposition parties; the PP leader, Jos Mara Aznar's ability to project a centrist and moderate image.
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