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Traditional festivities, political domination and social reproduction: Case analysis of Valencia’s Fallas
2020
The traditional festivities have been usually analysed in social sciences as a mode of generating sociability and social cohesion, not only in traditional societies but also in modern ones. However...
La reestructuració de la competició electoral a la Comunitat Valenciana (2011-2019)
2022
La competició electoral a la Comunitat Valenciana generalment s’ha articulat amb base en els eixos esquerra-dreta i la identitat nacional (p. ex. Martín Cubas, 2007). Encara que la identitat dels electors ha romàs generalment estable, sí que s’han produït alguns canvis entre 2011 i 2019 que, possiblement, han facilitat l’emergència de partits polítics nous. El propòsit principal del text és mostrar en quina mesura s’han produït canvis en els espais electorals ocupats pels partits nous i vells de la Comunitat Valenciana en els últims cicles electorals autonòmics. Això permet, al seu torn, mostrar l’evolució de les àrees de predomini d’alguns partits, així com aquells espais en els quals la c…
Analysing social networks in rural development: a gender approach
2016
Gender issues are of growing importance in the European and Spanish rural areas. The literature reflects that women have traditionally been linked to marginal positions in economic life, social activities and even political representation at the local level. Local development programs that have been implemented in Europe’s rural areas have had among its objectives the improvement of the articulation of local communities. To reach them, it has been fostered, among others, a gender perspective, promoting both productive activities led by women and their participation as stakeholders in the management and decision-making structures of such programmes. In this paper, we addressed this latter is…
Festive literature in Catalan as a space of cultural resistance: The Valencian magazine Pensat i Fet (1912‐72) during the Spanish post-war period
2021
The magazine Pensat i Fet (1912‐72), which was published every year before the Fallas festival and included a wide range of texts and pictures related to it, had been an important element in the dissemination of literature and culture in Catalan and the agenda of valencianism among wide sectors of Valencian society. Until 1936 ‐ especially during the years of the Second Spanish Republic ‐ the magazine explicitly opted for valencianism, for example, advocating for the agreement that would make the statute of autonomy possible. However, from 1940 onwards it became a true bastion of cultural resistance. So, the magazine maintained a literary use of Catalan language in diverse registers, strong…
The satirical press and the struggle for cultural hegemony in Spain: a case study on <em>La Traca</em>, 1884-1938
2019
La Traca was a weekly magazine published in Valencia between 1884 and 1892 and between 1909 and 1938, with periods during which it was not published because of governmental censorship. Because it was written in Valencian, the vernacular language of where it was published, it did not go beyond being a magazine of local, or at most regional, interest, circulation and importance. However, its editor, Vicente Miguel Carceller, made the decision in 1931 to edit the magazine in Spanish and he thus conquered the country’s market, resulting in circulation figures that no other publication had ever reached. La Traca was the most loved and hated of all satirical publications. This article explores it…
Valencia’s ‘Men for Equality’ movement. An assessment of some of its protagonists
2019
The Men for Equality movement [El movimiento de hombres por la igualdad - HPLI], although a fairly recent phenomenon, already has a forty year track record in Valencia. The movement has had its high and low points. After the trail blazed by protagonists in Valencian society, a period of consolidation followed in which those who came after them kept the movement going. A qualitative study carried out by the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology records the impressions of those men who kept the movement alive between 1975 and 2018 despite the odds at the outset. These voices are analysed within frameworks for interpreting movements. As a social movement, Men for Equality developed n…
El llibre de la Çuna e Xara en dos bibliotecas valencianas del siglo XV
2019
Este trabajo estudia la presencia del libro llamado Llibre de la Çuna e Xara, por el que se regían las aljamas musulmanas valencianas durante la Edad Media, en dos bibliotecas valencianas dispares. Una la del noble Ferran Ximénez d’Arenós, señor de Alberic, y la otra de Joan Lopiç, párroco de Silla. En la primera obedece a una mejor ejecución de la jurisdicción civil y criminal entre sus vasallos musulmanes, en la segunda para conseguir una evangelización efectiva de esa población musulmana. This article analyzes the presence of book denominated Llibre de la Çuna e Xarain two Valencian libraries. Muslims are governed by all laws and rules of that book during Medieval Age in the Kingdom of V…
The use made of video in the social media by candidates in the 2019 Valencian Autonomous Government elections
2020
Videos are increasingly being used in social networks for a wide range of purposes, including political campaigning. Here, social media seem to be gaining an edge over the mainstream variety when it comes to making political choices, especially during election campaigns. This paper examines the extent to which social media is used in Valencian Autonomous Government elections and looks at each of the candidate's experiences in this regard in the April 2019 elections. We pay particular attention to the differences between the three networks analysed — Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, and consider what kind of video information is shared. For these purposes, we create nine formal categories, s…
A Look at Valencia’s Elections of the 28th of April and the 26th of May 2019
2020
This paper analyses the main features of the Valencian media coverage of the elections held in Spain in the Spring of 2019 (General, Regional, Municipal, and European elections). We shine a spotlight on the key themes covered by the main newspapers, radio and TV stations, and on the campaign strategies parties used to define ideological blocs on the left and right.
Un asesinato en la Valldigna (Valencia, 1492)
2005
In 1492, a fatal robbery was committed in a small village in the Kingdom of Valencia. This article analyses the statements of the witnesses to a confession of this crime that were recorded in an Arabic document. The document provides evidence for the application of sharī'a law among Muslims in a territory that was no longer part of an Islamic state - in this case, the meting out of punishments for blood crimes. The survival of the document as part of the case file of the Christian court that adjudicated the case shows that the Valencian justice system considered valid documents produced by a Muslim judge, by a court clerk or by a notary. Moreover, these decisions were provided in Arabic wit…