Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain
Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain
The Transition to Democracy after Franco
This is a book about the role of culture in social change and the Spanish transition to democracy after Franco. Laura Desfor Edles takes a distinctively culturalist approach to the 'strategy of consensus' deployed by the Spanish elite and uses systematic textual interpretation (with a particular focus on Spanish newspapers) to show how a new symbolic framework emerged in post-Franco Spain which enabled the resolution of specific events critical to the success of the transition. In addition to uncovering underlying processes of symbolization, she shows that politico-historical transitions can themselves be understood as ritual processes, involving as they do phases and symbols of separation, liminality and re-aggregation.
- Offers distinctively cultural approach to understanding Spanish political transformation, after Franco
- Looks generally at role of culture in social change
- Research based on language and texts of politics, such as newspaper articles, pacts and legislation
Product details
April 1998Paperback
9780521628853
212 pages
229 × 152 × 12 mm
0.32kg
1 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Interpreting the Spanish Transition to Democracy:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Theories of transition and transitions in theory
- 3. Spain: a history of divisions and democracy
- Part II. The Symbolic Basis of Spanish Consensus:
- 4. The spirit of consensus: the core representations of the Spanish transition
- 5. The curtain rises: the first democratic elections
- 6. The 1977 Moncloa pacts and ritualization of communality
- Part III. Conflict and Consensus in the Institutionalization of Spanish Democracy:
- 7. Democratic reaggregation and the 1978 Constitution
- 8. The Basque exception: questions of communality and democracy
- 9. Conclusion and epilogue.
