Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Twentieth Twenty First - Ideas, Practices, Imaginings

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain charts the key ideas, practices and imaginings that characterize Spain's cultural, historical, social and political history in the contemporary period.

List of contents

In Memoriam: A Tribute to Professor Luisa Elena Delgado (1962-2024)
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
In Memoriam: A Tribute to Elena Delgado (1962-2024)
Introduction: A New Look at Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spanish Social, Political and Cultural History
PART 1: SPACES AND ENVIRONMENTS
1. Cultural Geographies in Spain: Landscape, Place and Space
Susan Larson
2. Urban Landscapes and the Construction of the Commons: Barcelona's Superblocks and Urban Voids
Sara Bartumeus Ferré
3. Rural Spain: Social Landscapes at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
Luis Camarero, Jesús Oliva and Rosario Sampedro
4. Citizens, Squatters, Homeowners and Tenants: Housing Activism and the Structures of Democratization and Capitalism in Spain
Miguel A. Martínez
5. The Cultural Ecology of Tourism: Life-Capital Conflict in Post-2008 Spain
Luis I. Prádanos
6. Information Bytes: From Bullfighting to COVID-fighting, How to Live on Planet Earth
Kata Beilin
PART 2: HISTORIES AND NARRATIVES
7. Narrating Conflict: The Politics of Historical Memory in Spain
Sebastiaan Faber
8. Representing Loss: Ghosts, Ruins, and Other Traces
Jo Labanyi
9. Buscando al Abuelo (Searching for Grandpa): Unearthing the Lost Bodies and Missing Histories of the Spanish Civil War
Dacia Viejo-Rose and Layla Renshaw
10. Posing the Question: Robert Capa and Gerda Taro in Three Shots from the Spanish Civil War
Michael Iarocci
11. The Periódico Murales of the Spanish Civil War: Recycled Imprints, Contested Conventions and Shared Histories
Jordana Mendelson
12. Transitions, Restorations, Exiles: Assessing the Legacies of the Expelled Second Republic
Mari Paz Balibrea
13. Terrorism and Peacebuilding Narratives in Spain
Ioannis Tellidis
14. "Evolution Without Revolution": Perceptions of Rupture and Reconciliation in Spanish and Portuguese Democratization
Manuel Loff
15. Acoustic Conflict and the Spanish Far Right During the Transition to Democracy
Tom Whittaker
PART 3: GOVERNMENTS AND INSTITUTIONS
16. The Contested Nation(s), 1900-2023
Xosé M. Núnez Seixas
17. Independence as a Political Strategy: A Party Competition Approach to Secessionism in Catalonia and the Basque Country
Gemma Sala
18. Patriarchy, Power, and Women's Independence: The Transformation of Marriage and Families in Spain, 1976-2020
María José González
19. The Catholic Church and Other Institutional Religions: The Long Road from Catholic Monoconfesionalism to Democratic Religious Pluralism
Natalia Núnez Bargueno
20. Schools, Scientific Institutions, and the Spanish "Brain Drain" (1833-2023)
Jaume Claret
21. Regulatory Policies and Institutions of Contemporary Spanish Language
María Florencia Rizzo
22. Prison Abolition in Spain: The Weight of History, the Debate, and the Future
Aurélie Vialette
23. Sporting Institutions: The Structures of Spanish Sport Across Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Andrew McFarland
24. Football and Politics in Modern Spain: FC Barcelona and Real Madrid in Historical Context
Alejandro Quiroga
PART 4: BODIES AND IDENTITIES
25. Franco's Instituto de Estudios Africanos, Spanish Colonial Science, and Local African Responses
Benita Sampedro Vizcaya
26. Boats, Bodies, and Borders: Migration, Dispossession and Patera Literature in Spain
N. Michelle Murray
27. Racial Others in Spain: The Articulation of Shifting Identities in the Works of Amazigh/Berber-Catalan Writer Saïd El Kadaoui Moussaoui
Cristián H. Ricci
28. Women in the Streets: 8M Feminist Protests in Spain
Eva Anduiza and Sabina Monza
29. Colonial Genderings: Fluid Identities in the Maghreb
Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo
30. Unraveling Time: Queer Future and Trans Entanglement in Veneno
Dean Allbritton
31. Motionless: Disability and Snow White in Narratives of the Crisis
Emily DiFilippo
32. A Civil Death: Homeownership, Migration, and the (Un)Making of Urban Subjects
Sophie Gonick
PART 5: COMMUNITIES AND COLLECTIVITIES
33. Early 20th-Century Popular Mobilization and Labor Movements in Spain: From the Restoration to the Second Republic
Pamela Radcliff
34. Chinese Contributions to Spanish Culture: An Overview
Joaquín Beltrán Antolín and Amelia Sáiz López
Translated by Linda Grabner
35. Muslims and Jews in Contemporary Spain: Returns, Legacies, Belongings
Daniela Flesler
36. Made by Punk, Makers of Punk: Spanish Women in the Transition Space
Nuria Triana Toribio
37. Narrating Class in Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature: From Class in Itself to Class for Itself
Class in Itself to Class for Itself
David Becerra Mayor
38. Social Responses to Material Inequality in Spain (2008-2022)
Steven L. Torres
39. Broken Promises: Precarity and Affect in Contemporary Spanish Poetry after 2011
Carlos Varón González
PART 6: AESTHETICS AND TECHNOLOGIES
40. The Atmospherics of Modernity: Flight in the Literary and Popular Imagination in Spain, 1920-1936
Juli Highfill
41. Auditory Culture in Twentieth-Century Spain: Stereophonic Soundscapes of Modernity, from Print Media to Radio
Tania Gentic
42. Landscape as Event: Geometrics and Geopoetics in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
Steven Marsh
43. Intimate Worlds, Public Battles: Gender, Agency, and Autonomy in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
Sarah Thomas
44. Algorithms, the Earth, and the Spanish State: The Politics of Making Digital Art
Alex Saum-Pascual
45. Performance in Contemporary Times: Processes, Community, and Audience
David Rodríguez-Solás
46. The Aesthetics of Ephemera: Migrant Subjects and the Unleashing of Place in the Photography of Óscar Parasiego
Parvati Nair
­­PART 7: CONNECTIONS AND FRACTURES
47. Apocalyptic Visions of the Crisis: The Imaginary of the Flood in Contemporary Spanish Culture
Natalia Castro Picón
48. Ties that Bind: Madrid's 2011 Protest Camp as a Transversal Community
Julia Ramírez-Blanco
49. Iberian Multilingualism, Gender, and Translation as Collaboration
Leslie J. Harkema
50. Spain and the Shifting Limits of "Europe"
Luis Martín-Estudillo
51. Between Raquel Meller and Rosalía: Popular Spanish Music: (Trans)National and Local Narratives
Julio Arce
Translated by Linda Grabner
52. Music's Mirrors: Identity, Tradition and Modernity in Spanish Popular Music
Héctor Fouce and Fernán del Val
Translated by Linda Grabner
53. From the Mediterranean Diet to Gastronationalism: Cultural Studies and Spanish Foodways
Rebecca Ingram
54. Iberia and the Americas: Hispanism and its (Dis)encounters
Diana Arbaiza
Index

About the author

Eduardo Ledesma is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA). He received his PhD in Romance languages and literatures from Harvard University in 2012 and his BS in civil engineering from UIUC in 1995. He is the author of Radical Poetry: Aesthetics, Politics, Technology and the Ibero-American Avant-Gardes (1900-2015) (2016), supported by a Fulbright Research Grant to Spain. His second book is titled Expanding Cinemas: Experimental Filmmaking Across the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic Since 1960 (2024). His latest book project, Blind Cinema, which studies films by blind filmmakers, has been awarded an NEH Fellowship.
Luisa Elena Delgado was Professor Emerita of Spanish, Criticism and Interpretive Theory, and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA). Among her many publications we might highlight La nación singular: Fantasías de la normalidad democrática Española (2014), finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Spain in the category of essay. She also co-edited (with Pura Fernández and Jo Labanyi) Engaging the Emotions in Spanish Culture and History (2016). In addition, she co-edited with Jo Labanyi Modern Literatures in Spain (2023), co-authored with Helena Buffery, Kirsty Hooper and Mari José Olaziregi.

Summary

The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain charts the key ideas, practices and imaginings that characterize Spain’s cultural, historical, social and political history in the contemporary period.

Product details

• Authors: Eduardo Delgado Ledesma
• Assisted by: Luisa Elena Delgado (Editor), Delgado Luisa Elena (Editor), Eduardo Ledesma (Editor), Ledesma Eduardo (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2025
• EAN: 9780367409692
• ISBN: 978-0-367-40969-2
• No. of pages: 716
• Series: Routledge Companions to Hispanic and Latin American Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Ethnic Studies, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Spanish, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Spanish, Regional Studies, Social and cultural history, Regional / International studies, Language teaching and learning, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Hispanic & Latino Studies