2020
DOI: 10.14506/ca35.3.01
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Exhuming Dead Persons: Forensic Science and the Making of Post-fascist Publics in Spain

Abstract: Four decades after the fall of its dictator, Spain still refuses to undertake its legal and moral responsibilities to locate the disappeared. This essay examines how Spanish activists use forensic exhumations to transform the political status of Franco’s victims. Departing from popular and scholarly depictions of forensic science, I show that, in post-fascist Spain, the impact of exhumations has little to do with their ability to extract historical information directly from the bones of the exhumed. Ins… Show more

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“…This new mode of recollection compelled grassroots efforts to bring to light the traumas inflicted by Franco's regime. Most notably, the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory, since its inception in 2000, has lobbied for the exhumation and identification of remains found in mass graves throughout the country (see Ferrándiz 2008Ferrándiz , 2013Rubin 2020). The civilian mobilization for restitution eventually sparked legislative action-most notably the Law of Historical Memory of 2007, a largely symbolic gesture that, for the first time, formally condemned the Franco regime.…”
Section: T H E P O L I T I C S O F T I M Ementioning
confidence: 99%
“…This new mode of recollection compelled grassroots efforts to bring to light the traumas inflicted by Franco's regime. Most notably, the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory, since its inception in 2000, has lobbied for the exhumation and identification of remains found in mass graves throughout the country (see Ferrándiz 2008Ferrándiz , 2013Rubin 2020). The civilian mobilization for restitution eventually sparked legislative action-most notably the Law of Historical Memory of 2007, a largely symbolic gesture that, for the first time, formally condemned the Franco regime.…”
Section: T H E P O L I T I C S O F T I M Ementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Desde el punto de vista temático, algunas investigaciones se han enfocado en las características del movimiento memorialista que ha emergido en torno a las exhumaciones (Del Río, 2005;Bevernage y Colaert, 2014); las relaciones de género en el proceso memorial (Martín Chiappe, 2019; Olaso, 2020); el impacto de los procedimientos técnicos sobre los nuevos relatos de memoria, con especial interés en el llamado giro forense (Renshaw, 2011;Rubin, 2020;Ferrándiz 2021;Iturriaga, 2022;Aragüete-Toribio, 2022); su impacto jurídico (Ferrándiz, 2010;Montoto, 2022); la vinculación de la búsqueda de fosas con procesos e infraestructuras transnacionales (Baer y Sznaider 2015;Rubin, 2018); los procesos de exhumación que tuvieron lugar durante la transición a la democracia y su impacto contemporáneo -la memoria de la memoria-(De Kerangat, 2017); las controversias en torno a lugares de memoria (0rtiz, 2013; Capdepon, 2020; Garbero y Palacios, 2022) y patrimonios disonantes (Ferrándiz, 2014, cap. VI;Iniesta, 2017;Roigé, 2022), o la transformación de los archivos que se derivan del proceso memorial (Aragüete-Toribio, 2017;Douglas, 2021).…”
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