Remaking Madrid

Culture, Politics, and Identity after Franco
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-349-29024-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 427 g

Remaking Madrid is the first full-length study of Madrid's transformation from the dreary home of the Franco dictatorship into a modern and vibrant city. It argues that this remarkable transformation in the 1980s helped secure Spain's fragile transition to democracy and that the transformation itself was primarily a product of "regionalism"-even though the capital is typically associated with "Spanishness" and with "the nation." The official project to distance Madrid from its dictatorial past included urban renewal and administrative reform; but, above all, it involved greater cultural participation, which led the revival of the capital's public festivals and the development of a modern cultural outpouring known as the movida madrileña. The book also explains the ultimate failure of regionalism in the capital by the end of the 1980s and asks whether or not Madrid's inclusive form of "civic" identity might have served as a model for the country as a whole.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stapell, H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte Europäische Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Transformationsprozesse (Politikwiss.)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Constructing Geographical Identities in Democratic Spain after 1978 Recovering from the Past: The Problem of Remaking Madrid after the Dictatorship From a 'Fortress' to a 'Plaza': The Transformation of Madrid and the Formation of a New Civic Identity Cultural Mobilization and the Civic Identity Project in the Capital Just a 'Teardrop in the Rain'? The movida madrileña and a New Democratic Regional Identity Your Same Old Madrid: The Changing Face of the Capital, 1979-1986 Not Your Same 'New' Madrid: The End of the Regional Identity Project and Changing Forms of Identification in the Capital, 1986-1991 Spain's Democratic Consolidation and Madrid as an Alternative National Model

Über Autor(innen)

HAMILTON STAPELL is an Assistant Professor of History at State University of New York at New Paltz, USA.