Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain
The Transition to Democracy after Franco
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- Author: Laura Desfor Edles, University of Hawaii, Manoa
- Date Published: April 1998
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- isbn: 9780521628853
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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.
Read more- 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
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- Date Published: April 1998
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521628853
- length: 212 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 12 mm
- weight: 0.32kg
- contains: 1 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
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.
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