Publicación: Between the Unbearable Weight and Lightness of the Past. Banal Silence in Spain’s Post-Dictatorship Memory Politics
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2018-05-04
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This paper explores the role of silence in Spain’s post-dictatorship memory politics. More specifically, the paper examines the forgotten Spanish colonial past in North Africa vis-à-vis the so-called pact of silence that accompanied Spain’s transition to democracy after the Franco dictatorship. Drawing on various theoretical approaches in relation to collective memory, traditionally assumed associations between silence and forgetting are questioned. As is argued, silence may nurture and preserve memory just as it may also feed into forgetting. In the former case, silence typically enshrouds a living memory of a past that still weighs on the present, as the pact of silence in Spain clearly illustrates. In the latter case, silence signals a past perceived as already left behind and alien to society’s current problems, as is the case of the Spanish colonial past in North Africa. In order to further explore the latter case, the notion of banal silence is introduced. Such notion points to cases where silence over certain contentious historical issues goes unnoticed by society, thus becoming naturalized. The paper concludes with some final reflections on memory, banal silence and political change.
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Springer in "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 53, 44-56", available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-018-9428-8
Este es el manuscrito aceptado del artículo publicado por Springer en "Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 53, 44-56", disponible en línea: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-018-9428-8
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Banal silence, collective memory, memory politics, history textbooks, Spanish colonialism
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Brescó de Luna, I. Between the Unbearable Weight and Lightness of the Past. Banal Silence in Spain’s Post-Dictatorship Memory Politics. Integr. psych. behav. 53, 44–56 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-018-9428-8
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Facultades y escuelas::Facultad de Psicología
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Psicología Básica I