Historical Memory

Kike Oñate. “El supuesto franquismo de Vox es una táctica, una forma de provocar a la izquierda.” Última Hora.

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Última Hora (Baleares) 6 April 2024. Full text at Última Hora.

Conciencia histórica y memoria multilingüe de las Brigadas Internacionales. (Prólogo.)

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Hablamos diferentes idiomas, pero una misma lengua. Multilingüismo y pedagogías en las Brigadas Internacionales, by Ramón Naya-Ortega and M. Lourdes Prades Artigas. Granada: U de Cádiz, 2023. 13-18.

“Popular Culture Has Flattened the History of the Milicianas.” Gonzalo Berger Pays Tribute to the Republic’s Women Soldiers.

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The Volunteer 39.4 (Dec. 2022): 15-16. Full text at The Volunteer.

Scholars Launch Online Museum of the Spanish Civil War. / Siete expertos internacionales lanzan un museo virtual de la Guerra de España.

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The Volunteer 39.4 (Dec. 2022): 13-14. Full text at The Volunteer. |
CTXT: Contexto y Acción 21 Nov. 2022. Full text at CTXT. Repr. in Rebelión 25 Nov. 2022 (Full text).

Blocking Access to the Recent Past: Threats to Academic Freedom in Post-Dictatorial Spain.

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Journal of Academic Freedom, vol. 13 (2022), ed. Michael Dreiling and Pedro García-Caro. Full text at the JAF.

Populism and the Collective Past: Revisionism or Memory Activism?

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The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism, ed. Yifat Gutman and Jenny Wüstenberg. London: Routledge, 2023. 28-34. Book information at Routledge.

Podcast with Foster Chamberlin. “The Legacies of Francoism.”

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Historias: The Spanish History Podcast. 1 Oct. 2022. Listen at Historias.

Yes, Women Did Serve in the Republican Army. Esther Gutiérrez Escoda Sets the Record Straight.

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The Volunteer 39.3 (Sept. 2022): 10-12. Full text at The Volunteer.

“Starting the IBMT is the best thing we’ve ever done.” Checking in with ALBA’s Younger Sister Across the Pond.

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The Volunteer 39.3 (Sept. 2022): 7-9. Full text at The Volunteer.

Interview by Francisco Martínez Hoyos. “En las batallas por la memoria, España es menos excepcional de lo que se piensa.”

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Historia y Vida 650 (May 2022): 14-19.

Interview on De boca a orella with Silvia Tarragona.

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RNE 4, 14 April 2022. Listen on RNE 4.

Franco desenterrado. La segunda Transición española

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Barcelona: Pasado & Presente, 2022. Order at Bookshop.org

Novelist Almudena Grandes Told the Truth About the Spanish Dictatorship.

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Jacobin 29 Nov. 2021

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La memoria de Almudena Grandes: afectiva y afiliativa.

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CTXT: Contexto y Acción, 28 Nov. 2021. Full text at CTXT.

Pedro Pastor, Singer/Songwriter: “We’re Still Children of the Dictatorship.”

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The Volunteer 38.4 (Dec. 2021). Full text at The Volunteer.

Teoría e hispanismo. Una trayectoria personal.

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Theory Now 4.2 (2021): 131-45. Full text at Theory Now.

Real Dictators: Francisco Franco. Noiser Podcasts.

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Real Dictators. Noiser Podcasts. 5 episodes. June 2021. Listen at Noiser.

Lecciones de las Brigadas Internacionales. Rev. of The International Brigades, by Giles Tremlett.

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Fronterad 19 March 2021. Repr. in Conversación sobre la Historia 27 March 2021 Full text at FronteraD. | Full text at Conversación sobre la Historia.

“El problema de la España democrática es que como sociedad nos consideramos portadores políticos del pasado.” Entrevista al historiador Francisco Leira.

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La Marea 8 Feb. 2021. Full text at La Marea. Repr. in Rebelión 9 Feb. 2021. (Full text.)

“How the Fight Over Spain’s Antifascist Legacy Involves a Former ‘Nation’ Editor.”

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The Nation 28 Dec. 2020. Full text at The Nation.