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Zira Box
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Paisaje y nacionalismo en el primer franquismo
2016
Assuming the theoretical idea widely developed by Human Geography that landscapes are cultural constructions with the capacity to become symbolic elements within nationalist discourses, this article explores the context of early Francoism. The aim of these pages is to analyze landscape sensibility as well as the landscape idea developed by the francoist nationalist discourse by trying to draw out three inherent elements in it: first of all, following Oliver Zimmer’s work, the nationalization of nature, this is to say, the consideration that nature expresses the community’s myths, events or memories; secondly, the naturalisation of the nation, that projects upon landscapes the capacity to de…
The Simple Geometry of ‘Linearism’. Metaphors of the Nation in the Radical Falangist Discourse of the Immediate Postwar Period in Spain
2016
Taking as a point of departure the understanding that metaphors, as linguistic expressions, indicate the thought processes of those who formulate them, the present article explores a specific metaphor that formed part of the discourse of radical Falangism: the definition of the Spanish nation as straight, upright, linear or vertical, in opposition to another Spain that had to be combatted, and which was portrayed as twisted. The argument put forward here is that, by analysing the various metaphorical expressions that arose in the wake of the identification of Spain with an image of linearity, it is possible to examine aspects of Falange nationalism that bring into relief the ideal of a somb…
The “corporealization” of the nation: notions of the unclean and viscosity in the nationalist discourse of Spanish fascism
2017
ABSTRACTThe present article focuses on the particular case of the nationalist discourse of Spanish fascism during the Spanish Civil War and the immediate postwar period (1936–1941), in order to explore one specific aspect of it: the characterization of the enemy Republican nation that was to be fought against as unclean and viscous or sticky. The aim here is to analyse what meanings these references possessed and what they can tell us about the general processes of construction of discourses of identity. For this purpose, use is made of certain propositions developed by sociology and anthropology, as a basis upon which to develop the hypothesis that the use of the aforementioned references …
Spanish Fascism as a Political Religion (1931–1941)
2011
This article focuses on the controversial argument that Spanish Fascism, organized in the political party Falange Espanola (FE y de las JONS), can be interpreted as a form of political religion, understood in the sense of Emilio Gentile. The central thesis is that Spanish Fascism was a political religion during the Republican period, that is, from the time of its consolidation during the early 1930s to the beginning of the Civil War. However – and this is the main analytical challenge – it was also one after July 1936, in spite of the fact that the formation of Franco's Movimiento Nacional imposed no small transformations upon it. Even if those transformations were linked to the increasingl…
Análisis socio-metafórico y culturas políticas: sobre el estudio del nacionalismo falangista
2018
Partiendo de la idea de que el interés del análisis socio-metafórico reside en estudiar las metáforas en tanto pistas que nos acercan a valores, presupuestos, deseos y expectativas de quienes las producen y utilizan, este artículo propone centrar dicho análisis en un sujeto colectivo suficientemente rico y, a la par, convenientemente delimitado: las culturas políticas. Definidas, estas últimas, en la línea de lo propuesto por la denominada historia cultural de la política, la primera parte de este texto está dedicada a reflexionar sobre lo que el estudio metafórico puede aportar para una mejor comprensión de las mismas, proponiendo las principales potencialidades que este tipo de análisis g…
Renegotiating the Boundaries of the Virile Nation: the España negra of José Gutiérrez Solana in the art exhibitions of postwar Spain (1940–45)
2020
Throughout the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, Francoist discourse on the nation was strongly linked to the idea of virility. All the different political cultures of the dictator...
'The Franco Dictatorship: A Proposal for Analysis in Terms of Political Cultures'.
2019
This chapter proposes the study of the Franco dictatorship through the prism of the analytical tool of political culture. The main argument is that the aforementioned approach enables us to pose new questions and direct our analytical focus from different angles. Mainly, it allows us to go beyond a confirmation of the internal heterogeneity of the regime to examine the extent to which this was not exclusively an instance of a hybrid structure, but of a political force made up of diverse components—fascists and reactionary nationalists—whose various movements and specific actions all eventually gave shape to the regime. Consequently, the attention is directed to both, the fascistized nature …
Cuando la historia está presente: Argumentos a favor de la sociología histórica
2019
Sociology and history have maintained a discontinuous relationship and a permanent discussion. Classical sociology is intrinsically historical, but after the first theoretical synthesis the dialogue between both disciplines was extinguished and it has often been necessary to defend the need for the historical view in sociology from the margins of the dominant paradigm. However, as a specialty or subdiscipline, historical sociology has consolidated its own academic space and a strong theoretical, methodological and conceptual body. In Spain this process of institutionalization has not yet success. In this article we expose a few arguments in defense of historical sociology, both theoretical …
Quan les metàfores importen (per a les ciències socials)
2018
En el número 58 de la revista L'Espill trobaràs un dossier monogràfic sobre "Un tombant social: la precarització de les capes mitjanes", amb contribucions de Sandra Obiol, Antonio Santos, Esteban Hernández, Rafael Castelló, Francisco J. Goerlich, David Muñoz, Mariano Urraco i Arnaldo Bagnasco. A més, articles de Rob Riemen, Richard Wolin, Simona Škrabec, Zira Box, Neville Alexander, Sherry Simon i Manuel Peris, així com documents de Walter Benjamin, un full de dietari de Jaume Subirana i converses amb Fina Birulés i Luka Lisjak.