The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain charts the key ideas, practices and imaginings that characterize Spains cultural, historical, social and political history in the contemporary period.
The volume brings together internationally acknowledged scholars from around the globe and from diverse disciplines, from cinema and sociology, to sociolingusitics, politics and history, as well as various other cultural studies approaches. It offers an integrated multi-disciplinary volume that provides a more complete and nuanced multi-perspective assessment of modern and contemporary Spanish culture, with a special emphasis on recent decades. This interdisciplinary and thematically organized Companion includes essays on literature and art, history, politics, religion, economics, linguistics and visual culture and covers an extensive period of time, with a focus on key events. The volume explores cutting-edge areas and engages with current debates, controversies and questions in the field of Hispanic studies.
Offering a nuanced, multi-disciplinary assessment of modern and contemporary Spanish culture through a dichotomic organizing principle, The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain is an expansive resource which will be of interest to students and scholars of Hispanic Studies, and those with a particular interest in Spanish history, politics and culture.
The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Spain charts the key ideas, practices and imaginings that characterize Spains cultural, historical, social and political history in the contemporary period.
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 (19622024)
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: Barcelonas
Superblocks and Urban Voids
Sara Bartumeus Ferré
3. Rural Spain: Social Landscapes at the Beginning of the Twenty-First
Century
Luis Camarero, Jesśs Oliva and Rosario Sampedro
4. Citizens, Squatters, Homeowners and Tenants: Housing Activism and the
Structures of Democratization and Capitalism in Spain
Miguel A. Martķnez
5. The Cultural Ecology of Tourism: Life-Capital Conflict in Post-2008 Spain
Luis I. Prįdanos
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), 19002023
Xosé M. Nśnez 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 Womens Independence: The Transformation of
Marriage and Families in Spain, 19762020
Marķa José Gonzįlez
19. The Catholic Church and Other Institutional Religions: The Long Road from
Catholic Monoconfesionalism to Democratic Religious Pluralism
Natalia Nśnez Bargueno
20. Schools, Scientific Institutions, and the Spanish Brain Drain
(18332023)
Jaume Claret
21. Regulatory Policies and Institutions of Contemporary Spanish Language
Marķa 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. Francos 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 Saļd El Kadaoui Moussaoui
Cristiįn 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
Joaquķn Beltrįn Antolķn and Amelia Sįiz 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 (20082022)
Steven L. Torres
39. Broken Promises: Precarity and Affect in Contemporary Spanish Poetry
after 2011
Carlos Varón Gonzįlez
PART 6: AESTHETICS AND TECHNOLOGIES
40. The Atmospherics of Modernity: Flight in the Literary and Popular
Imagination in Spain, 19201936
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 Rodrķguez-Solįs
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: Madrids 2011 Protest Camp as a Transversal Community
Julia Ramķrez-Blanco
49. Iberian Multilingualism, Gender, and Translation as Collaboration
Leslie J. Harkema
50. Spain and the Shifting Limits of Europe
Luis Martķn-Estudillo
51. Between Raquel Meller and Rosalķa: Popular Spanish Music: (Trans)National
and Local Narratives
Julio Arce
Translated by Linda Grabner
52. Musics Mirrors: Identity, Tradition and Modernity in Spanish Popular
Music
Héctor Fouce and Fernįn 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
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 Womens Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA). Among her many publications we might highlight La nación singular: Fantasķas de la normalidad democrįtica Espańola (2014), finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Spain in the category of essay. She also co-edited (with Pura Fernįndez 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.
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