Exhuming the Defeat: Mass Graves of the Civil War in 21st-century Spain

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.44.2019.25249

Keywords:

human rights, transitional justice, postconflict, memory, exhumations, mass graves, Spanish Civil War

Abstract

Based on a local case study of the exhumation of two mass graves in a small village, conducted eight years apart, I address the transformation of Civil War (1936-1939) disinterments in Spain over the last decade. The sudden visibility of skeletons of civilians executed by Franco’s paramilitary in the public sphere has triggered heated debates both about how to handle them in a consolidated democratic state andwhat to make of controversial judicial and institutional initiatives. The particularity of Spain’s «human rights outsourcing model» regarding Civil War crimes is placed in comparative perspective within the framework of transnational human rights discourses and practices.

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Published

2019-12-28

How to Cite

Ferrandiz, F. (2019). Exhuming the Defeat: Mass Graves of the Civil War in 21st-century Spain. ENDOXA, (44), 17–46. https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.44.2019.25249

Issue

No. 44 (2019)

Section

Collective Memories: Policies, Uses and Representations

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