Extremadura: Behind the material traces of Franco’s repression
After the failed coup d’état of July 17th, 1936 and after the start of the Spanish Civil War that followed it, rebels carried out a repressive strategy based on the execution of thousands of people as a key tool of social control. The socialization of fear and terror through humiliation, killing and...
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description | After the failed coup d’état of July 17th, 1936 and after the start of the Spanish Civil War that followed it, rebels carried out a repressive strategy based on the execution of thousands of people as a key tool of social control. The socialization of fear and terror through humiliation, killing and disappearance would become the main strategy employed throughout the war and the post-war period. In this context, perpetrators would exercise repressive practices on victims and their bodies. As a result, countless mass graves were opened in order to hide the bodies of victims. In the region of Extremadura, these mass graves have been investigated through the application of archeology and physical anthropology as disciplines of research and historical knowledge production. The exhumations, have given us a diachronic point of view of the repressive strategies developed, associated with different contexts between 1936 and 1946. Analyses of mass executions linked to rebels’ occupation of territories in this region, systematic rearguard killings in occupied areas, elimination procedures carried out in concentration camps and prisons and the fight against the armed guerrilla during the dictatorship, are the main contributions of this article. |
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spelling | doaj.art-489ff24d997749be80c7772ad04167682022-12-21T22:12:23ZengConsejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasCulture & History Digital Journal2253-797X2014-12-0132e020e02010.3989/chdj.2014.02059Extremadura: Behind the material traces of Franco’s repressionLaura Muñoz Encinar0Julián Chaves Palacios1Universidad de Extremadura, Facultad de Filosofía y LetrasUniversidad de Extremadura, Facultad de Filosofía y LetrasAfter the failed coup d’état of July 17th, 1936 and after the start of the Spanish Civil War that followed it, rebels carried out a repressive strategy based on the execution of thousands of people as a key tool of social control. The socialization of fear and terror through humiliation, killing and disappearance would become the main strategy employed throughout the war and the post-war period. In this context, perpetrators would exercise repressive practices on victims and their bodies. As a result, countless mass graves were opened in order to hide the bodies of victims. In the region of Extremadura, these mass graves have been investigated through the application of archeology and physical anthropology as disciplines of research and historical knowledge production. The exhumations, have given us a diachronic point of view of the repressive strategies developed, associated with different contexts between 1936 and 1946. Analyses of mass executions linked to rebels’ occupation of territories in this region, systematic rearguard killings in occupied areas, elimination procedures carried out in concentration camps and prisons and the fight against the armed guerrilla during the dictatorship, are the main contributions of this article.http://cultureandhistory.revistas.csic.es/index.php/cultureandhistory/article/view/59civil warfrancoismmaterial culturemass gravesrepressionhistorical knowledge |
spellingShingle | Laura Muñoz Encinar Julián Chaves Palacios Extremadura: Behind the material traces of Franco’s repression Culture & History Digital Journal civil war francoism material culture mass graves repression historical knowledge |
title | Extremadura: Behind the material traces of Franco’s repression |
title_full | Extremadura: Behind the material traces of Franco’s repression |
title_fullStr | Extremadura: Behind the material traces of Franco’s repression |
title_full_unstemmed | Extremadura: Behind the material traces of Franco’s repression |
title_short | Extremadura: Behind the material traces of Franco’s repression |
title_sort | extremadura behind the material traces of franco s repression |
topic | civil war francoism material culture mass graves repression historical knowledge |
url | http://cultureandhistory.revistas.csic.es/index.php/cultureandhistory/article/view/59 |
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