The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain

Ideas, Practices, Imaginings
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-367-40969-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 764 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1406 g

Reihe: Routledge Companions to Hispanic and Latin American Studies

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain charts the key ideas, practices and imaginings that characterize Spain’s cultural, historical, social and political history in the contemporary period.

The volume brings together internationally acknowledged scholars from around the globe and from diverse disciplines, from cinema and sociology, to sociolingusitics, politics and history, as well as various other cultural studies approaches. It offers an integrated multi-disciplinary volume that provides a more complete and nuanced multi-perspective assessment of modern and contemporary Spanish culture, with a special emphasis on recent decades. This interdisciplinary and thematically organized Companion includes essays on literature and art, history, politics, religion, economics, linguistics and visual culture and covers an extensive period of time, with a focus on key events. The volume explores cutting-edge areas and engages with current debates, controversies and questions in the field of Hispanic studies.

Offering a nuanced, multi-disciplinary assessment of modern and contemporary Spanish culture through a dichotomic organizing principle, The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain is an expansive resource which will be of interest to students and scholars of Hispanic studies, and those with a particular interest in Spanish history, politics and culture.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ledesma, Eduardo

Delgado, Luisa Elena

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

In Memoriam: A Tribute to Professor Luisa Elena Delgado (1962-2024)



List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

In Memoriam: A Tribute to Elena Delgado (1962–2024)

Introduction: A New Look at Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spanish Social, Political and Cultural History



PART 1: SPACES AND ENVIRONMENTS

1. Cultural Geographies in Spain: Landscape, Place and Space

Susan Larson

2. Urban Landscapes and the Construction of the Commons: Barcelona’s Superblocks and Urban Voids

Sara Bartumeus Ferré

3. Rural Spain: Social Landscapes at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century

Luis Camarero, Jesús Oliva and Rosario Sampedro

4. Citizens, Squatters, Homeowners and Tenants: Housing Activism and the Structures of Democratization and Capitalism in Spain

Miguel A. Martínez

5. The Cultural Ecology of Tourism: Life-Capital Conflict in Post-2008 Spain

Luis I. Prádanos

6. Information Bytes: From Bullfighting to COVID-fighting, How to Live on Planet Earth

Kata Beilin



PART 2: HISTORIES AND NARRATIVES

7. Narrating Conflict: The Politics of Historical Memory in Spain

Sebastiaan Faber

8. Representing Loss: Ghosts, Ruins, and Other Traces

Jo Labanyi

9. Buscando al Abuelo (Searching for Grandpa): Unearthing the Lost Bodies and Missing Histories of the Spanish Civil War

Dacia Viejo-Rose and Layla Renshaw

10. Posing the Question: Robert Capa and Gerda Taro in Three Shots from the Spanish Civil War

Michael Iarocci

11. The Periódico Murales of the Spanish Civil War: Recycled Imprints, Contested Conventions and Shared Histories

Jordana Mendelson

12. Transitions, Restorations, Exiles: Assessing the Legacies of the Expelled Second Republic

Mari Paz Balibrea

13. Terrorism and Peacebuilding Narratives in Spain

Ioannis Tellidis

14. “Evolution Without Revolution”: Perceptions of Rupture and Reconciliation in Spanish and Portuguese Democratization

Manuel Loff

15. Acoustic Conflict and the Spanish Far Right During the Transition to Democracy

Tom Whittaker



PART 3: GOVERNMENTS AND INSTITUTIONS

16. The Contested Nation(s), 1900–2023

Xosé M. Núnez Seixas

17. Independence as a Political Strategy: A Party Competition Approach to Secessionism in Catalonia and the Basque Country

Gemma Sala

18. Patriarchy, Power, and Women’s Independence: The Transformation of Marriage and Families in Spain, 1976–2020

María José González

19. The Catholic Church and Other Institutional Religions: The Long Road from Catholic Monoconfesionalism to Democratic Religious Pluralism

Natalia Núnez Bargueno

20. Schools, Scientific Institutions, and the Spanish “Brain Drain” (1833–2023)

Jaume Claret

21. Regulatory Policies and Institutions of Contemporary Spanish Language

María Florencia Rizzo

22. Prison Abolition in Spain: The Weight of History, the Debate, and the Future

Aurélie Vialette

23. Sporting Institutions: The Structures of Spanish Sport Across Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Andrew McFarland

24. Football and Politics in Modern Spain: FC Barcelona and Real Madrid in Historical Context

Alejandro Quiroga



PART 4: BODIES AND IDENTITIES

25. Franco’s Instituto de Estudios Africanos, Spanish Colonial Science, and Local African Responses

Benita Sampedro Vizcaya

26. Boats, Bodies, and Borders: Migration, Dispossession and Patera Literature in Spain

N. Michelle Murray

27. Racial Others in Spain: The Articulation of Shifting Identities in the Works of Amazigh/Berber-Catalan Writer Saïd El Kadaoui Moussaoui

Cristián H. Ricci

28. Women in the Streets: 8M Feminist Protests in Spain

Eva Anduiza and Sabina Monza

29. Colonial Genderings: Fluid Identities in the Maghreb

Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo

30. Unraveling Time: Queer Future and Trans Entanglement in Veneno

Dean Allbritton

31. Motionless: Disability and Snow White in Narratives of the Crisis

Emily DiFilippo

32. A Civil Death: Homeownership, Migration, and the (Un)Making of Urban Subjects

Sophie Gonick



PART 5: COMMUNITIES AND COLLECTIVITIES

33. Early 20th-Century Popular Mobilization and Labor Movements in Spain: From the Restoration to the Second Republic

Pamela Radcliff

34. Chinese Contributions to Spanish Culture: An Overview

Joaquín Beltrán Antolín and Amelia Sáiz López

Translated by Linda Grabner

35. Muslims and Jews in Contemporary Spain: Returns, Legacies, Belongings

Daniela Flesler

36. Made by Punk, Makers of Punk: Spanish Women in the Transition Space

Nuria Triana Toribio

37. Narrating Class in Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature: From Class in Itself to Class for Itself

Class in Itself to Class for Itself

David Becerra Mayor

38. Social Responses to Material Inequality in Spain (2008–2022)

Steven L. Torres

39. Broken Promises: Precarity and Affect in Contemporary Spanish Poetry after 2011

Carlos Varón González



PART 6: AESTHETICS AND TECHNOLOGIES

40. The Atmospherics of Modernity: Flight in the Literary and Popular Imagination in Spain, 1920–1936

Juli Highfill

41. Auditory Culture in Twentieth-Century Spain: Stereophonic Soundscapes of Modernity, from Print Media to Radio

Tania Gentic

42. Landscape as Event: Geometrics and Geopoetics in Contemporary Spanish Cinema

Steven Marsh

43. Intimate Worlds, Public Battles: Gender, Agency, and Autonomy in Contemporary Spanish Cinema

Sarah Thomas

44. Algorithms, the Earth, and the Spanish State: The Politics of Making Digital Art

Alex Saum-Pascual

45. Performance in Contemporary Times: Processes, Community, and Audience

David Rodríguez-Solás

46. The Aesthetics of Ephemera: Migrant Subjects and the Unleashing of Place in the Photography of Óscar Parasiego

Parvati Nair



PART 7: CONNECTIONS AND FRACTURES

47. Apocalyptic Visions of the Crisis: The Imaginary of the Flood in Contemporary Spanish Culture

Natalia Castro Picón

48. Ties that Bind: Madrid’s 2011 Protest Camp as a Transversal Community

Julia Ramírez-Blanco

49. Iberian Multilingualism, Gender, and Translation as Collaboration

Leslie J. Harkema

50. Spain and the Shifting Limits of “Europe”

Luis Martín-Estudillo

51. Between Raquel Meller and Rosalía: Popular Spanish Music: (Trans)National and Local Narratives

Julio Arce

Translated by Linda Grabner

52. Music’s Mirrors: Identity, Tradition and Modernity in Spanish Popular Music

Héctor Fouce and Fernán del Val

Translated by Linda Grabner

53. From the Mediterranean Diet to Gastronationalism: Cultural Studies and Spanish Foodways

Rebecca Ingram

54. Iberia and the Americas: Hispanism and its (Dis)encounters

Diana Arbaiza



Index

Über Autor(innen)

Eduardo Ledesma is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA). He received his PhD in Romance languages and literatures from Harvard University in 2012 and his BS in civil engineering from UIUC in 1995. He is the author of Radical Poetry: Aesthetics, Politics, Technology and the Ibero-American Avant-Gardes (1900-2015) (2016), supported by a Fulbright Research Grant to Spain. His second book is titled Expanding Cinemas: Experimental Filmmaking Across the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic Since 1960 (2024). His latest book project, Blind Cinema, which studies films by blind filmmakers, has been awarded an NEH Fellowship.

Luisa Elena Delgado was Professor Emerita of Spanish, Criticism and Interpretive Theory, and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA). Among her many publications we might highlight La nación singular: Fantasías de la normalidad democrática Española (2014), finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Spain in the category of essay. She also co-edited (with Pura Fernández and Jo Labanyi) Engaging the Emotions in Spanish Culture and History (2016). In addition, she co-edited with Jo Labanyi Modern Literatures in Spain (2023), co-authored with Helena Buffery, Kirsty Hooper and Mari José Olaziregi.