Biographical history, novelistic fiction and tensions of modernity in the liberal public sphere.
Analysis of cinema and mass culture in relation to the construction of collective identities of nation and gender.
The Revolution and the Reaction form an interwined axis that runs through the 19th century in both Europe and America. With this line of research we aim to cover other geographical areas in order to offer an integrated vision of the historical processes and of both realities as a meeting point.
Comparison with democratic processes in Southern Europe and the United States.
Study of the dialectics of continuity, reformism, rupture and revolution between the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century. The study of behaviour and political logic of absolutism and the multiple discourses that emerged as alternatives to it are key.
The study of the production, dissemination and reception of material objects, ideas, artefacts and ideologies. Cultural history studies the past of these artifices and codes, their permanence or the cause of their disappearance. It also alayses their meaning and functioning.
Study of the configuration of Spanish fascism, the Franco regime and the political cultures of the opposition to the dictatorship.
A study from a transnational perspective of gender representations in European fascist political cultures.
Study of literature in any of its manifestations (novels, essays, theatre, poetry, literary journalism, memoirs, diaries, graphic novels, etc.), as working material for the contemporary historian, in order to analyse historical phenomena from an interdisciplinary perspective.
The formation of institutions and the reformulation of property rights and the use of natural resources in 19th century Spain.
Study of the configuration and evolution of liberal politics in the American space in the 19th century.
Study of the construction of national and regional identities in Spain and Europe.
Study of the discourses, practices and subjects of the different political cultures of nineteenth-century Europe understood as plural, evolving and constantly conflicting phenomenon. It includes liberal as well as illiberal, republican, democtratic, socialist and anarchist political cultures.
Study of the shaping of the public sphere from an ideological and social point of view at the time of the formation of nation states.
Analysis of the configuration of the relationship between religion and politics in the era of the nation-states.
The complexity of contemporary political and social processes must be explained at their roots, by looking at the origins of current development dynamics and their historical evolution. These processes allow us to learn about reality in a critical way, providing a better democratic culture.
Study of the historical processes of construction of gender models and identities (femininities-masculinities), with special attention to the analysis of normative and fictional literature, as well as their internalisation, appropriation or rejection by the subjects. Analysis of social practices and intellectual strategies of relations between the sexes.
