GIUV2013-060
Within the latest theoretical contributions of social and political history, this project aims to study in depth both democracy and the construction and evolution of modern Spanish political cultures, insisting on the complex relationship between the main political cultures of republicanism, anarchism, socialism and democracy. It will focus on three historical moments:
The crisis of the parliamentary monarchy, 1900-1930;
Second Spanish Republic, Spanish Civil War and Early Francoism, 1931-1959;
Second Francoism, Transition and democratic consolidation, 1959-1986. The historical analysis will be carried out from within the three political cultures mentioned, in relation to Spanish nationalism and gender identities and from the comparative perspective with southern Europe and the United States. With this diversity of approaches and perspectives in three key historical moments, the mutual achievements and influences of this fruitful, but conflictive and difficult relationship at many moments in the 20th century will be seen. The project will focus primarily on three key historical moments:
The first third of the twentieth century was interesting for observing the response of...Within the latest theoretical contributions of social and political history, this project aims to study in depth both democracy and the construction and evolution of modern Spanish political cultures, insisting on the complex relationship between the main political cultures of republicanism, anarchism, socialism and democracy. It will focus on three historical moments:
The crisis of the parliamentary monarchy, 1900-1930;
Second Spanish Republic, Spanish Civil War and Early Francoism, 1931-1959;
Second Francoism, Transition and democratic consolidation, 1959-1986. The historical analysis will be carried out from within the three political cultures mentioned, in relation to Spanish nationalism and gender identities and from the comparative perspective with southern Europe and the United States. With this diversity of approaches and perspectives in three key historical moments, the mutual achievements and influences of this fruitful, but conflictive and difficult relationship at many moments in the 20th century will be seen. The project will focus primarily on three key historical moments:
The first third of the twentieth century was interesting for observing the response of the different political cultures to the limits and possibilities of universal male suffrage and to the transition from elite politics to mass politics. This was also the time of the first wave of democratisation in much of Europe, so that the different political cultures found themselves at a crucial political moment, as the masses not only assumed the leading role in political life, but also, increasingly in more and more places, control of the levers of power.
Spanish Second Republic, Spanish Civil War and early Francoism, in which attention will be paid mainly to the possibilities and influences of the first Spanish democratic experience, as well as to the attraction of revolution and reaction in a large part of the political spectrum, due to the growing influence of the anti-liberal and anti-democratic movements in the context of the inter-war period. To this is added the gender and national identity aspects of political cultures as a whole, and the analysis of the experience of the hardest years of Francoism (1939-1959) in the consideration of democracy as the central objective of the political cultures of the Spanish left (defeated in the civil war). Thus, the analysis of anti-fascism during the interwar period, as a mobilising mortar against the expansion of the enemies of liberalism and democracy and its main achievements (individual rights and freedoms, social reforms and gender equality), as well as the consequences of its triumph after the Spanish Civil War, especially in the form of repression from different perspectives, will be central elements of this group's research.
Late Francoism and the Democratic Transition, periods in which all points of the political spectrum converged towards a Western European-style democracy, in such a way that both the clandestine revolutionary groups of the last years of Francoism, the main traditions of the Spanish left and the more moderate positions of the liberal and Christian Democrat right evolved until they contributed decisively to making Spain a consolidated democracy integrated into the European context. The analysis will be carried out from different perspectives:
From an internal analysis of left-wing political cultures, through which to observe their positioning in relation to the aforementioned processes (democracy, democratisation, transitional processes, gender and national identities).
From a comparative and even transnational perspective that leads to highlighting the aspects and processes in which the political cultures of the Spanish left participated in connection with those of other geographies, mainly France, Italy and Portugal, due to their thematic and geographical proximity to Spain; as well as with the United States, for acting as a radiator of democratising ideals and formulas since the beginning of the first third of the 20th century due to its position as a hegemonic country in the international order.
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- Ampliar las perspectivas en el analisis de la democracia en España, abordandola desde las relaciones entre las culturas politicas españolas del siglo XX
- Analizar la contribucion de las culturas politicas y las identidades de genero a los procesos transicionales de construccion e involucion de la democracia en la España del siglo XX, atendiendo prioritariamente a los momentos de cambio, de continuidad y de ruptura, con especial enfasis en las relaciones y las politicas publicas de genero.
- Reafirmar el papel de la historia del genero en todos los aspectos fundamentales de la historia de España.
- Estudiar como las dinamicas transnacionales (intercambios, transferencias, redes... ) participan o influyen tanto en el proceso de construccion de la democracia como de su involucion en España, observando las posibles declinaciones nacionales y los elementos, relaciones y manifestaciones compartidos en un contexto mas amplio occidental tanto europeo como americano, en el que la construccion de la ciudadania igualitaria, los feminismos, el reformismo social, las pulsiones revolucionarias, la ocupacion del poder politico, la violencia politica, el antifascismo o mas tarde el anticomunismo fueron algunos de los elementos que recorrieron o marcaron al conjunto de las culturas politicas mas alla del marco español.
- Profundizar en el estudio de la transmision de valores, discursos y estrategias, asi como contactos personales por encima de las fronteras politicas estatales, entre los grupos y movimientos sociopoliticos que pretendian la construccion tanto de una España y una Europa democraticas como aquellos que perseguian todo lo contrario.
- Contribuir a colocar la "via española" en las relaciones democracia-culturas politicas dentro de la perspectiva comparativa de la historia occidental
- Profundizar en el conocimiento de la continuidad de los movimientos politicos y sociales antes y despues de la Guerra Civil y el franquismo
- Democracy and anarchist political culture in 20th century Spain.Relationship between democracy and anarchism in 20th-century Spain.
- Comparison with democratisation processes in Southern Europe and the US.Comparison with democratic processes in Southern Europe and the United States.
- Relationship between left-wing political cultures and Spanish national identity.To analyse in what ways left-wing political cultures have or have not collaborated in the dissemination of Spanish national identity, creating new referents and/or adapting pre-existing ones.
- Democracy and socialist and communist political cultures.Relationship between the political cultures of socialism and communism with democracy, reformism and social revolution.
- Relationship of republican political culture to democracy and gender identities.Analysis of how Spanish republicanisms conceived their relationship with democracy, including the gender perspective.
- Political Violence and Social Control in Democracy and Dictatorship..Analysis of the types of repression and social control that were put in place in both the democratic regimes and in the Spanish dictatorships of the 20th century, with special emphasis on political violence exercised by and against left-wing political cultures, with a gender perspective.
- Democracy's relationship to gender identities.To test whether, as some sectors of these political cultures argued, without gender equality a full transition to democracy was possible.
| Name | Nature of participation | Entity | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRANCISCO JAVIER NAVARRO NAVARRO | Director | Universitat de València | |
| Research team | |||
| MARIA AURORA BOSCH SANCHEZ | Member | Universitat de València | |
| ANTONIO CALZADO ALDARIA | Member | Universitat de València | |
| SERGIO VALERO GOMEZ | Member | Universitat de València | |
| MELANIE IBAÑEZ DOMINGO | Member | Universitat de València | |
| ENRIQUE BENGOCHEA TIRADO | Member | Universitat de València | |
| VICENTE IGNACIO BELLVER LOIZAGA | Member | Universitat de València | |
| VEGA RODRIGUEZ-FLORES PARRA | Member | Universitat de València | |
| MARIA LUZ SANFELIU GIMENO | Member | Universitat de València | |
| AURELIO MARTI BATALLER | Member | Universitat de València | |
| MIGUEL ANGEL RUBIO LAPEÑA | Member | Universitat de València | |
| ANA M AGUADO HIGON | Collaborator | Universitat de València | |
| ALVARO ALVAREZ RODRIGO | Collaborator | Autònomo | postdoctoral researcher |
| VICENTA VERDUGO MARTI | Collaborator | Florida Centre de Formació | pre-tenured lecturer |
- Early History
- Identidades de género, democracia, feminismos, masculinidades, igualdad.
- Democracia, anarquismos, revolución, sindicalismo, historia cultural
- Comparison, Democracy, France, Portugal, Italy, United States
- National identity, nationalism, socialism, socialism, communism, anarchism, republicanism
- Democracy, socialism, communism, reformism, revolution, anti-fascism
- Democracy, republicanism, feminism, masculinities, mobilisation, education.
- Violencia política, control social, género, moralidad, dictadura.
