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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Laura Desfor Edles, Edles Laura Desfor
• Editore: Cambridge Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 16.04.1998
• EAN: 9780521621403
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62140-3
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Peso: 450 g
• Illustrazioni: 1 b/w illus., Raster, nicht spezifiziert
• Serie: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Cultural Studies, Spain, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Political structures: democracy, Political structures / systems: democracy