Inward outreach

Cultural trafficking in Spain was not restricted to the crossing of national borders. This much in a sense is evident throughout the discussions so far, in that the selection of works for publication, whether in book form or through the medium of a journal, implies the crossing of an internal border. But there are more precise internal questions to be explored.

As announced in Chapter 1, the greater part of my emphasis so far has been upon urban activity and upon Madrid, albeit with a consciousness of the significance of activity within the regions, not least in Catalonia. Using the Certeau strategy/tactics model, however, we might speculate that Madridbased movements could be viewed as strategic, and regionally based (or inspired) movements as tactical, simply because of the location of political power. The greater part of legislation on education, publishing and planning all emanated from Madrid, and thus can be regarded as the strategic framework within which cultural trafficking activity could take place.