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International Journal of Iberian Studies - Volume 30, Issue 2, 2017
Volume 30, Issue 2, 2017
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Property, the forging of Francoism and collective memory
Authors: Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco and Peter AndersonAbstractThe mass confiscation of property by Francoists during and after the Spanish Civil War of 1936–39 stands out as one of the most testing issues in Spain’s tortuous recent past. This article explains popular participation in the seizuraes. It also seeks to overcome the divorce in the historiography between Francoist and Republican confiscations and between the history of the seizures and their collective memory. It further shows that historians struggle to bring the seizure into the public sphere because of obstacles created in particular by the reluctance of those controlling the Spanish state to confront this dark past.
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‘No, there is no room for you’: Audience reception and televised interculturality in Spain
Authors: Antonio Pineda, Leonarda García-Jiménez and Miquel Rodrigo-AlsinaAbstractIn Spain, a country characterized by multiculturalism and high television consumption, the way television represents interculturality becomes a relevant object of study. This article analyses how Spanish audiences (divided into two age groups, 20 to 30 year olds and 40 to 60 years olds) decode the way interculturality is represented on television. The most significant finding is that audiences decode mediated intercultural relationships in a polarized way, with critical positions coexisting with interpretations in line with hegemonic readings. Audiences consider TV news to be irrelevant and perceive that cultures are treated differently by the media. Paradoxically, dominant readings coexist with a tendency to scepticism, with news stories regarded as banal and biased. The study sheds light on the idea that audiences interpret and evaluate televised information differently, and that the way this information is decoded depends on factors such as the experience of the viewer.
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Affect, aliens, and crisis in Nacho Vigalondo’s Extraterrestre
By Susan DivineAbstractThis article will analyse how Nacho Vialgondo’s Extraterrestre (2011) first deploys and then intentionally confuses genre tropes as a way to comment on the housing crisis in Spain that was reaching its apex at the time of the film’s release. Specifically, Extraterrestre, marketed as a science fiction thriller, tells the story of an alien invasion in Madrid through the emotional arc of a melodrama. While staying away from overtly political commentary, Extraterrestre’s focus on romance and the home emphasizes how individuals respond in moments of crisis. Rather than focus on heroes who fight a spatial invasion and deterritorilization, the writer-director follows four protagonists who decide to isolate themselves from the outside danger, too absorbed in their romantic trysts to react rationally. This generic juxtaposition creates emotional dissonance in the spectator that allows for a consideration of affect as tool of hegemony. Social geographer Nigel Thrift refers to the relationship between affect and power as an ‘emotional regime’ that is manipulated by political, spatial and economic actors. To this end, my reading of the film is primarily informed by urban theory, especially how affect is produced and, in turn, produces space.
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Arthur Ferdinand Yencken: A British diplomat in wartime Spain
Authors: Lara Anderson and David YenckenAbstractDuring the Second World War, the maintenance of Spanish neutrality was of great strategic importance to the British Government and its Allies. The British Embassy in Madrid therefore had a role of crucial significance. This article describes the part played by Arthur Yencken, deputy to Ambassador Hoare, who served in Spain from 24 April 1939 until his death on 18 May 1944. In uncovering Yencken’s contributions to the war effort, the article offers an example of the critical part played by diplomacy in achieving British foreign policy objectives. Analysis of unpublished official documents provides fresh perspectives on trade and other negotiations from 1940 to 1944 including those related to wheat, petroleum and wolfram supplies. These documents demonstrate the quality of Yencken’s diplomatic skills during negotiations with Spanish Foreign Minister Jordana when Yencken was Chargé d’Affaires in his Ambassador’s absence. The article also describes the circumstances of his death and the remarkable responses to it.
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Reviews
Authors: Hugo Clemente, Christiane Abele, Carlos Varón González, Maribel Rams, Ricardo Noronha and Jorge UribeAbstractUrban Space, Identity and Postmodernity in 1980’s Spain: Rethinking the Movida, Maite Usoz de la Fuente (2015) London: Modern Humanities Research Association and Maney Publishing, 165 pp., ISBN: 9781909662445, h/bk, £75
Creole Societies in the Portuguese Colonial Empire, Philip J. Havik and Malyn Newitt (eds) (2015) Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 255 pp., ISBN: 9781443880275, h/bk, £47.99
La imaginación hipotecada: Aportaciones al debate sobre la precariedad del presente, Palmar Álvarez-Blanco and Antonio Gómez L-Quiñones (eds) (2016) Madrid: Ecologistas en Acción, 360 pp., ISBN: 9788494405129, p/bk, 15
No se está quieto: Nuevas formas documentales en el audiovisual hispánico, Marta Álvarez, Hanna Hatzmann and Inmaculada Sánchez Alarcón (eds) (2015) Madrid: Iberoamericana; Frankfurt: Vervuert, 337 pp., Col. (Aproximaciones a las Culturas Hispánicas, 2), ISBN: 9788484899273 (Iberoamericana), ISBN: 9783954874613 (Vervuert), p/bk, 22
An Economic History of Portugal (1143–2010), Leonor Freire Costa, Pedro Lains and Susana Münch Miranda (2016) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 406 pp., ISBN: 9781107035546, h/bk, £74.99
Pessoa y España, Antonio Saéz Delgado (2015) Valencia: Pre-textos, colección textos y pretextos, 250 pp., ISBN: 9788415894865, p/bk, 20.00
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Volumes & issues
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Volume 37 (2024)
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Volume 36 (2023)
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Volume 35 (2022)
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Volume 34 (2021)
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Volume 33 (2020)
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Volume 32 (2019)
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Volume 31 (2018)
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Volume 30 (2017)
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Volume 29 (2016)
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Volume 28 (2015)
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Volume 27 (2014)
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Volume 26 (2013)
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Volume 25 (2012)
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Volume 24 (2011 - 2012)
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Volume 23 (2010)
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Volume 22 (2009)
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Volume 21 (2008)
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Volume 20 (2007)
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Volume 19 (2006 - 2007)
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Volume 18 (2005)
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Volume 17 (2004)
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Volume 16 (2003 - 2004)
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Volume 15 (2002 - 2003)
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Volume 14 (2001)