- David Alegre Lorenz
Departament d'Història Moderna i Contemporània
Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Edifici B
08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona)
- Memories and Experiences of War, Combat Veterans, Second World War, Crisis of Modernity, Early Postwar (1945-1950), Modernist Architecture (Architectural Modernism), and 76 moreEuropean Modernism, Modernism (Art History), Modernism, Spanish Civil War, Ethnic Conflict and Civil War, Political Violence, History of Political Violence, Political Violence and Terrorism, Fascism, Fascism and Modernism, Interwar Crisis (20th Century), Interwar Period History, European History, Literary Theory, Historiography, History and Memory, Nationalism, Cultural History, Klaus Theweleit, Fascism (Revolutions), Psychosomatics, Anthropology and Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis And Literature, División Azul, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia (History), Southeastern Europe, History of Central and Southeastern Europe, German Expellees, Ustase, Ustashe, Iron Guard, National Identity, Violence, Masculinity, Communism, memoralization, Historia Cultural, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian literature, Estudios sobre Violencia y Conflicto, Communism (Revolutions), Former Yugoslavia, Art in the former Yugoslavia, Eastern Europe, 20th Century, Eastern European history, History of Communism, Social History, History of Violence, Memory Studies, Ethnicity, Migration, Identity, Intellectual History, Contemporary History, Género, Identidad, Masculinidades, Waffen-SS, Foreign Volunteers In Wehrmacht and Waffen SS, Fascist Experience, War and Fascism, Spanish Fascism, Fascist Culture, Myth, Francoist repression in postwar Spain, War Studies, Military History, Civil-military relations, International war volunteers, War Volunteering, South Slavic and Balkan political, diplomatic, social and cultural history, Nationalism and identity construction, and Breakup of the former Yugoslaviaedit
La Segunda Guerra Mundial es un momento decisivo de la historia europea, aunque pocas veces nos la han contado desde la perspectiva de los colaboracionistas. Decenas de miles de europeos tomaron parte en las políticas imperiales del... more
La Segunda Guerra Mundial es un momento decisivo de la historia europea, aunque pocas veces nos la han contado desde la perspectiva de los colaboracionistas. Decenas de miles de europeos tomaron parte en las políticas imperiales del Tercer Reich, espoleados por el miedo a perder una oportunidad irrepetible e inspirados por los deslumbrantes triunfos de la Alemania nazi. Este libro ahonda en su universo mental, en sus trayectorias desde los años treinta, en sus estrategias políticas, en sus tormentosas relaciones con los alemanes, en el sentido de sus decisiones y de sus acciones, incluyendo la creación de unidades de voluntarios para la guerra contra la Unión Soviética. Lejos de verse a sí mismos como meros peones, los colaboracionistas creyeron que una cooperación estrecha y leal con los ocupantes sería la manera más rápida y eficaz de promover sus intereses personales y sus proyectos políticos. Marginados por sus convecinos como traidores y perseguidos por la resistencia acabarían firmando un pacto de sangre con los ocupantes, contribuyendo al saqueo de sus países y empujando a sus comunidades al borde de la guerra civil. No en vano, la condena y depuración del colaboracionismo pondría los fundamentos de la refundación del continente en la posguerra.
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Por su virulencia y larga duración, pero también por la magnitud de los efectivos humanos y los medios materiales desplegados, la batalla de Teruel constituyó un punto de inflexión en la guerra civil española. En esta obra el análisis de... more
Por su virulencia y larga duración, pero también por la magnitud de los efectivos humanos y los medios materiales desplegados, la batalla de Teruel constituyó un punto de inflexión en la guerra civil española. En esta obra el análisis de los hechos se conjuga con otros temas menos habituales para intentar dar con la compleja naturaleza de un conflicto radicalmente moderno y violento, pero también con las dificultades de los contendientes para adaptarse a sus exigencias y sus retos; los límites para la creación de dos ejércitos de masas en un país pobre; o, también, las consecuencias de la guerra sobre el territorio, los combatientes y las comunidades afectadas por ésta. Es por eso que la dimensión humana de la batalla ocupa un lugar fundamental en estas páginas, ahondando en la experiencia de civiles y combatientes a partir de multitud de memorias, testimonios orales y documentación de archivo.
Research Interests: History, Military History, Military Intelligence, Strategy (Military Science), War Studies, and 17 morePolitical Violence and Terrorism, Civil War, Oral history, Social History, Interwar Period History, Military and Politics, Spanish Civil War, Civil-military relations, Ethnic Conflict and Civil War, Warfare, Francoism, Franquismo, GUERRA CIVIL ESPAÑOLA, Second Spanish Republic, Segunda República y Guerra Civil Española, Teruel, and Civilians In Civil Conflict
Desde el último asalto sobre Moscú hasta la batalla de Berlín, pasando por las operaciones antipartisanas en el corazón de Bielorrusia o el derrumbamiento final de la Wehrmacht en el verano de 1944, las unidades de voluntarios franceses... more
Desde el último asalto sobre Moscú hasta la batalla de Berlín, pasando por las operaciones antipartisanas en el corazón de Bielorrusia o el derrumbamiento final de la Wehrmacht en el verano de 1944, las unidades de voluntarios franceses integrados en la maquinaria de guerra alemana en el Frente del Este siempre entraron en combate en medio de situaciones extremas. Este hecho justificaría el estudio de una experiencia que pone de manifiesto la naturaleza tremendamente compleja y cruel de lo bélico en el que sin duda alguna fue el teatro decisivo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. No por nada, tratar de comprender la participación activa de un grupo minoritario de franceses en el esfuerzo de guerra alemán exige una intensa labor de contextualización que, paralelamente, haga afrontar algunas dimensiones fundamentales del periodo de entreguerras. En este sentido, esta obra pretende ofrecer una vuelta al combatiente como sujeto histórico de unos acontecimientos que cobraron forma a través de sus decisiones y sus actos sobre el campo de batalla. Al fin y al cabo, la profusión de experiencias de guerra de decenas de miles de voluntarios y conscriptos procedentes de todo el continente nos plantea toda una serie de problemas historiográficos fundamentales, de ahí que lo que ofrecemos aquí sea forzosamente un pequeño esbozo de lo que no es sino un vastísimo panorama.
Research Interests: Military History, Self and Identity, French History, Violence, Cold War and Culture, and 39 moreCombat Veterans, War Studies, History and Memory, French Revolution, Sexual Violence, Collaboration, Fascism, Trauma Studies, Civil War, Second World War, Masculinities, World War II, Interwar Period History, Civil-military relations, Occupation and Resistance in WW2, Loss and Trauma, War and violence, France, Eastern Front, The Third Reich, Nazi Germany, Berlin, Pomerania, Waffen-SS, Nazism, Soldiers, Memories and Experiences of War, Sexual Violence as weapon of war, Berlin and Memory, War Volunteering, Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, Total War, International war volunteers, Pommern, French Fascism, Foreign Volunteers In Wehrmacht and Waffen SS, Wartime Sexual Violence, Enemy Formation, and Experience Combattante
En este artículo analizamos algunos de los límites y particularidades del proceso de descolonización en África Central durante los años sesenta, tomando como sujeto de estudio a los mercenarios blancos que participaron en las guerras... more
En este artículo analizamos algunos de los límites y particularidades del proceso de descolonización en África Central durante los años sesenta, tomando como sujeto de estudio a los mercenarios blancos que participaron en las guerras civiles del Congo (Katanga) y Nigeria (Biafra). El impacto de sus actividades, sus conexiones político-económicas internacionales, sus fuentes de reclutamiento, sus motivaciones y sus creencias, las relaciones entre los diferentes colectivos o el conflicto entre sus agendas y las de sus promotores nos hablan de una descolonización congelada, de la circulación transnacional de praxis y discursos contrainsurgentes y de una extrema derecha global que mantendría importantes conexiones con los antiguos centros de poder metropolitanos. Así pues, nos proponemos profundizar en el despliegue de nuevas formas de poder, control e injerencia en el África postcolonial por parte de las potencias occidentales y los grupos de intereses dentro de estas.
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La mitad suroccidental de la provincia de Teruel constituye un escenario excepcional para entender las particularidades de la vida cotidiana de posguerra en territorios afectados por un conflicto moderno. Las herramientas de la historia... more
La mitad suroccidental de la provincia de Teruel constituye un escenario excepcional para entender las particularidades de la vida cotidiana de posguerra en territorios afectados por un conflicto moderno. Las herramientas de la historia sociocultural de la guerra nos permiten observar que la población de la capital y su entorno más inmediato enfrentó una crisis humanitaria gravísima durante la década posterior a los enfrentamientos armados. Esta estuvo directamente relacionada con los múltiples efectos que el conflicto dejó tras de sí, y se vio agravada por las políticas de un régimen dictatorial en construcción. El análisis de la documentación generada por los juzgados de instrucción locales y el Gobierno Civil, cruzado con los testimonios de algunos contemporáneos, pone de manifiesto cómo se articuló el proceso de reconstrucción de la vida en comunidad y el tipo de estrategias al que tuvieron que recurrir los autóctonos para sobrevivir. Todo ello nos sitúa ante las particulares consecuencias sociales y económicas de la guerra en Teruel: contaminación, accidentes causados por la chatarra de guerra, trabajo infantil, pobreza extrema, hurtos y robos de subsistencia, inseguridad ciudadana, abusos de poder y desobediencia, marginación social, suicidios y afecciones mentales.
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Combatant perceptions of the landscape in which soldiers fight constitute a central element of their memory, especially in the frame of military invasions and occupations. This article addresses the war experience of the Spanish, French,... more
Combatant perceptions of the landscape in which soldiers fight constitute a central element of their memory, especially in the frame of military invasions and occupations. This article addresses the war experience of the Spanish, French, and Walloon volunteers who enlisted in the Wehrmacht and the Waffen-SS. Their views of the Eastern Front were heavily influenced by the close, dense forests that covered much of Eastern Europe. Fear of autochthonous nature was fed by a very specific image of Soviet civilians and soldiers, which ended up conditioning the modus operandi on the front lines and in the rearguard.
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Este artículo tiene por objeto analizar los principales debates y avances en uno de los campos más punteros y prolíficos de la historiografía a nivel internacional: los estudios de la guerra, también conocidos como nueva historia militar.... more
Este artículo tiene por objeto analizar los principales debates y avances en uno de los campos más punteros y prolíficos de la historiografía a nivel internacional: los estudios de la guerra, también conocidos como nueva historia militar. Para ello propongo un recorrido a través de los cambios que se han producido dentro de éste ámbito durante las dos últimas décadas, así como también un examen crítico de los trabajos y tendencias historiográficas que más han contribuido a ello. En este sentido, planteo una puesta en valor de los estudios de la guerra y destaco su importancia para el conjunto de la historiografía por su capacidad para complejizar nuestro conocimiento y explicaciones del pasado; por el amplio y sugerente abanico de casos de estudio que pone a nuestra disposición; por sus tremendas posibilidades y potencial renovador a nivel metodológico e interpretativo; y, no menos importante, por su tremenda actualidad y sus conexiones con el presente.
Research Interests: History, Military History, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Social Sciences, and 18 morePostcolonial Studies, Contemporary History, Cold War and Culture, War Studies, Cold War, Civil War, Cultural History of War, Twentieth Century History and Culture, Second World War, First World War, History of Daily Life, Social History, Interwar Period History, Spanish Civil War, Ethnic Conflict and Civil War, Women and Gender Studies, Postwar Europe, and New Military History
Con este artículo aspiramos a plantear vías y elementos para el análisis, el estudio y la comprensión de un fenómeno complejo de violencia étnica con múltiples implicaciones a todos los niveles y un escenario transnacional marcado por... more
Con este artículo aspiramos a plantear vías y elementos para el análisis, el estudio y la comprensión de un fenómeno complejo de violencia étnica con múltiples implicaciones a todos los niveles y un escenario transnacional marcado por diferentes tempos, razones y estímulos, todo ello propiciado por las consecuencias de la guerra y las condiciones planteadas por la inmediata posguerra. Por tanto, nuestro objetivo sería dar cuenta de la complejidad inherente al éxodo y la expulsión de las comunidades alemanas y Volksdeutsche de Europa centro-oriental a la par que introducir una nueva variable en nuestra comprensión de la guerra civil europea.
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In this article we want to pose some lines and objects in order to go into detail about the analysis, research and understanding of a complex phenomena of ethnic violence, a problem with too much implications at every level in a transnational scene characterized by different tempos, reasons and stimulus, all of that favoured by the consequences of war and postwar situation. Therefore, our aim is to show the complexity attached tothe exodus and expulsion of German and Volksdeutsche communities at Central-Eastern Europe. At the same time we would like to introduce a new fact in our understanding of the European civil war.
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In this article we want to pose some lines and objects in order to go into detail about the analysis, research and understanding of a complex phenomena of ethnic violence, a problem with too much implications at every level in a transnational scene characterized by different tempos, reasons and stimulus, all of that favoured by the consequences of war and postwar situation. Therefore, our aim is to show the complexity attached tothe exodus and expulsion of German and Volksdeutsche communities at Central-Eastern Europe. At the same time we would like to introduce a new fact in our understanding of the European civil war.
Research Interests: Eastern European Studies, Violence, Polish History, Sexual Violence, Gender and Sexuality, and 27 moreRace and Ethnicity, Nationalism, National Identity, Nationalism And State Building, Early Postwar (1945-1950), Gender And Violence, Loss and Trauma, Ethnic Conflict and Civil War, Trauma, Central and Eastern Europe, National Security, WWII, Expulsion, Ethnic Cleansing, Ethnic Cleansing, Postwar Germany, Revenge; vengeance, Deportation, Refugees, Ethnic Cleansing, Nationalsocialism social and racial policy, Race and Ethnic Relations, Nationalization, Postwar Europe, The Expulsion and Flight of the East European Germans 1944-1950, Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide during the 20th century, Communism and national question, German Expellees, Central and Eastern European Studies, Transition in Central and Eastern Europe, and Postwar Studies
Resulta cuanto menos paradójica la poca atención brindada a fenómenos como la participación y la experiencia política a través del franquismo, sobre todo si tenemos en cuenta que se trata de realidades esenciales para la comprensión de... more
Resulta cuanto menos paradójica la poca atención brindada a fenómenos como la participación y la experiencia política a través del franquismo, sobre todo si tenemos en cuenta que se trata de realidades esenciales para la comprensión de todo régimen político moderno que se precie y que, por lo demás, nos aportan una perspectiva privilegiada de su particular naturaleza. Este artículo pretende demostrar la gran variedad de formas de participación y experiencia políticas puestas en marcha por el franquismo como respuestas radicales al reto de la modernidad. Como trato de demostrar, en la primera década de vida del régimen todo acto cotidiano pasó a cobrar una dimensión participativa fundamental, lo cual partía de una concepción muy particular de la militancia. Sin lugar a dudas, el escenario más importante fue planteado por el 18 de Julio y la guerra, elevados a la categoría de plebiscito de la nación en armas que posibilitaría la participación masiva de los españoles en la historia y la realización del modo de ser fascista a través de una suerte de cristianismo combativo. No obstante, el artículo va más allá del horizonte omnipresente de la guerra al centrarse en la evolución de los canales de participación y representación política a lo largo de la posguerra, que culminarían en el referéndum de 1947 como hito decisivo en la constitución del régimen.
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It’s paradoxical, to say the least, the low attention paid by the Spanish historiography to phenomena as political participation and experience into Francoism, specially taking into account its importance in order to understand any modern political regime, because these realities give us an exceptional approach of its peculiar nature. Francoism got a great variety of ways to participate and experience politics off the ground as radical responses facing the challenge of modernity. This article raises some of them. As I tried to show, each daily fact took on an essential participatory dimension during the first decade of the regime, which make sense around its peculiar conception of militancy. Without a doubt, the most important scene was posed by the coup d’état and the Spanish Civil War. The regime turned both into a plebiscite of the people risen up in arms which would make possible the massive participation in History of the Spaniards and the fulfilment of the fascist way through a kind of combative Christianity. Nonetheless the article goes beyond the omnipresent horizon of the war to focus into the changing channels of political representation and participation during the post-war which were culminated by the 1947 referendum, a crucial fact in the constitution of the regime.
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It’s paradoxical, to say the least, the low attention paid by the Spanish historiography to phenomena as political participation and experience into Francoism, specially taking into account its importance in order to understand any modern political regime, because these realities give us an exceptional approach of its peculiar nature. Francoism got a great variety of ways to participate and experience politics off the ground as radical responses facing the challenge of modernity. This article raises some of them. As I tried to show, each daily fact took on an essential participatory dimension during the first decade of the regime, which make sense around its peculiar conception of militancy. Without a doubt, the most important scene was posed by the coup d’état and the Spanish Civil War. The regime turned both into a plebiscite of the people risen up in arms which would make possible the massive participation in History of the Spaniards and the fulfilment of the fascist way through a kind of combative Christianity. Nonetheless the article goes beyond the omnipresent horizon of the war to focus into the changing channels of political representation and participation during the post-war which were culminated by the 1947 referendum, a crucial fact in the constitution of the regime.
Research Interests: Cultural History, Cultural Studies, Political Participation, Community Engagement & Participation, History and Memory, and 39 moreFascism, History of concepts, Myths and Symbols as carriers of unconscious content, Memory Studies, Cultural Memory, Collective Memory, Interwar Period History, Community Participation, Spanish Civil War, Concepts, Interwar Crisis (20th Century), Political Mobilization, Myth, Spain under Franco, Francoism, Franquismo, Fascist propaganda, FRANCOIST AESTHETICS, ART AND REPESSION, Interwar period, 1919 - 1939, Francoist Spain, The Francoist regime, Popular Culture During Francoism, Community participation and engagement, First Francoism, Memoria Franquismo, Fascist Studies, Fascist Aesthetics, Represión, posguerra y franquismo, Fascist Culture, Interwar Europe, Francoist Dictatorship and Propaganda, Sociedad en el franquismo, Social Supports to Fascist Regimes In Interwar Europe, Propaganda Política Franquista, Cultura Y Sociedad Durante El Franquismo, Nacionalismo franquista, Francoist Culture, Francoism As Fascism, and Culture During Francoism
En el caso de muchos combatientes fascistas la actividad intelectual actuaría como una prolongación natural y necesaria del ejercicio de la guerra, precisamente por ello, nos proponemos analizar las motivaciones que impulsaron a miles de... more
En el caso de muchos combatientes fascistas la actividad intelectual actuaría como una prolongación natural y necesaria del ejercicio de la guerra, precisamente por ello, nos proponemos analizar las motivaciones que impulsaron a miles de españoles a alistarse como voluntarios para la guerra en el Frente del Este, y lo haremos a través de sus propias colaboraciones en la revista La Joven Europa. En este sentido, podría decirse que dicha publicación se convirtió en un espacio de encuentro para intelectuales y combatientes fascistas que contribuyó a la legitimación ideológica de la guerra en el Frente del Este. Este propósito se vio favorecido por la construcción de una determinada imagen del enemigo y, sobre todo, de una identidad y conciencia en torno a las cuales facilitar la confluencia de los combatientes fascistas. Desde nuestro punto de vista, el análisis de las experiencias y visiones de la guerra codificadas por los combatientes de la División Azul nos permitiría penetrar en su particular imaginario colectivo.
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Intellectual activity acted as a natural and necessary extension of war experience in the case of fascist combatants, for this reason we want to analyse why thousands of Spaniards enlisted themselves as volunteers for going to the Eastern Front, and we are going to do that through their own contributions with La Joven Europa. In fact, this journal was turned into a kind of meeting point for fascist intellectuals and combatants of all over the continent, and it contributed to war’s ideological legitimation at the Eastern Front. This purpose was assisted by the construction of a certain image of the enemy, and above all a new conscience and identity. We are going to see the convergence of fascist combatants around these shared ideas. From our point of view, the analysis of the experiences and views of the war codified by the Spanish soldiers at the Blue Division allow us to deepen our knowledge on their own social imaginary.
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Intellectual activity acted as a natural and necessary extension of war experience in the case of fascist combatants, for this reason we want to analyse why thousands of Spaniards enlisted themselves as volunteers for going to the Eastern Front, and we are going to do that through their own contributions with La Joven Europa. In fact, this journal was turned into a kind of meeting point for fascist intellectuals and combatants of all over the continent, and it contributed to war’s ideological legitimation at the Eastern Front. This purpose was assisted by the construction of a certain image of the enemy, and above all a new conscience and identity. We are going to see the convergence of fascist combatants around these shared ideas. From our point of view, the analysis of the experiences and views of the war codified by the Spanish soldiers at the Blue Division allow us to deepen our knowledge on their own social imaginary.
Research Interests: Discourse Analysis, Cultural Studies, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Critical Discourse Studies, and 47 moreNarrative, Combat Veterans, War Studies, History and Memory, Rape, Fascism, Nationalism, Trauma Studies, Literary Theory, Women, Cultural Identity, National Identity, Feminism, Critical Discourse Analysis, Cultural History of War, Second World War, Fascism and Modernism, Social and Cultural History, Anthropology and Psychoanalysis, War and violence, War and violence (Psychology), Eastern Front, PTSD, Nationalism and religion, Trauma, The Monstrous and Otherness, Cultural Trauma, Myth, Holocaust, Memory, Psychosomatics, Veterans, Memories and Experiences of War, Incest, Wehrmacht, Nazi new order in Europe, Crisis of Modernity, Personal Narratives, División Azul, New Military History, Anthropology of Religion, Fascist Culture, Spanish Fascism, Frontgemeinschaft, Foreign Volunteers In Wehrmacht and Waffen SS, Fascist Experience, and War and Fascism
El artículo propone una reconstrucción de los temores y marcos de referencia del combatiente fascista de la División Azul, todo ello por medio del análisis del lenguaje desde una perspectiva psicoanalítica. De algún modo, el objetivo es... more
El artículo propone una reconstrucción de los temores y marcos de referencia del combatiente fascista de la División Azul, todo ello por medio del análisis del lenguaje desde una perspectiva psicoanalítica. De algún modo, el objetivo es observar cómo se produce el proceso de identificación del enemigo y la desempatización que hicieron posible el despliegue de una extremada brutalidad en el combate. En este sentido, veremos cómo se produce una identificación absoluta entre los rusos (civiles y combatientes), el comunismo, el judaísmo y el paisaje. Tanto es así, que el combatiente fascista vive bajo una sensación permanente de cerco. En última instancia, observamos que el fascista enfrenta dicha amenaza al tiempo que huye de ella en un incontenible impulso violento entendido como acto de fe.
This article analyzes the fears and projections of the Spanish fascist soldier in the Blue Division, all
through the analysis of language from a psychoanalytic view. In some way, the aim is to understand how
the enemy is seen and how is produced the process of contempt toward the enemy that made possible
the deployment of an extreme brutality in combat. In this sense, we’ll see an absolute correspondence
among the Russian people (civilians and soldiers), Communism, Judaism and the landscape. So much so
that the fascist soldier lives under a permanent feeling of siege. At last, we can see how the fascist face
this threat at the same time that he avoids it running away in a violent drive understood as act of faith.
This article analyzes the fears and projections of the Spanish fascist soldier in the Blue Division, all
through the analysis of language from a psychoanalytic view. In some way, the aim is to understand how
the enemy is seen and how is produced the process of contempt toward the enemy that made possible
the deployment of an extreme brutality in combat. In this sense, we’ll see an absolute correspondence
among the Russian people (civilians and soldiers), Communism, Judaism and the landscape. So much so
that the fascist soldier lives under a permanent feeling of siege. At last, we can see how the fascist face
this threat at the same time that he avoids it running away in a violent drive understood as act of faith.
Research Interests: Discourse Analysis, Cultural Studies, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Narrative, and 47 moreSocial and Cultural Anthropology, Combat Veterans, War Studies, History and Memory, Rape, Antisemitism (Prejudice), Fascism, Nationalism, Trauma Studies, Literary Theory, Women, Cultural Identity, Feminism, Modernity, Memory Studies, Cultural History of War, Second World War, Fascism and Modernism, Social and Cultural History, Anthropology and Psychoanalysis, War and violence, War and violence (Psychology), PTSD, Trauma, Second World War (History), The Monstrous and Otherness, Cultural Trauma, Myth, Holocaust, Memory, Otherness, Fascist propaganda, Psychosomatics, Veterans, Memories and Experiences of War, Incest, Wehrmacht, Personal Narratives, División Azul, New Military History, Klaus Theweleit, Fascist Culture, Fascist Violence, Spanish Fascism, Foreign Volunteers In Wehrmacht and Waffen SS, Fascist Experience, and War and Fascism
Research Interests: Intellectual History, Balkan Studies, Balkan History, Contemporary History, Historiography, and 36 moreHistory and Memory, Migration, Communism (Revolutions), Yugoslavia, Communism, Masculinity, Social History, memoralization, Ethnicity, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian literature, Former Yugoslavia, Art in the former Yugoslavia, Identity, Serbian Politics, Historia, Historia y Memoria, Identidad, Estudios sobre Violencia y Conflicto, History of Yugoslavia, Arte, Narrativas, Cinema of Yugoslavia, Género, Violencia De Género, Western Balkans, Integration, Historia Cultural, Oralidad, Memoria, Psicoterapia, Masculinidades, Relaciones de poder y ciudadanía, Trauma in the Former Yugoslavia, Communism and national question, Inter ethnic Relations, and Drogodependencias
Se trata de un trabajo sobre la experiencia de guerra de los voluntarios europeos que se alistaron en legiones extranjeras para luchar junto a Alemania contra la Unión Soviética, que es un anticipo de mi tesis defendida en junio de 2017 y... more
Se trata de un trabajo sobre la experiencia de guerra de los voluntarios europeos que se alistaron en legiones extranjeras para luchar junto a Alemania contra la Unión Soviética, que es un anticipo de mi tesis defendida en junio de 2017 y que será publicada a lo largo de 2019. El capítulo en cuestión combina el estudio de las diversas causas del alistamiento de estos voluntarios, sus diferentes motivaciones e identidades, su paso por el Frente Oriental y su papel dentro del colaboracionismo durante la ocupación de sus respectivos países de origen por Alemania.
Research Interests: History, Military History, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, War Studies, and 9 moreSecond World War, Masculinities, Social History, Waffen-SS, Memories and Experiences of War, New Approaches to the Experiences of Modern Warfare, Collaboration in World War II, International war volunteers, and Foreign Volunteers In Wehrmacht and Waffen SS
Writing an accurate history of the Spanish Civil War in Spain was difficult before Francisco Franco died in 1975. The most controversial aspects of modern Spanish history were mainly analyzed by foreign scholars, making a proper... more
Writing an accurate history of the Spanish Civil War in Spain was difficult before Francisco Franco died in 1975. The most controversial aspects of modern Spanish history were mainly analyzed by foreign scholars, making a proper understanding of the war and dictatorship difficult within Spain. This last point is relevant when taking into
account a hitherto systematic failure as Spanish historians to disseminate the results of our research abroad. In turn, this has tended to marginalize Spanish fascism’s relevance
to comparative European approaches during the interwar period. In many instances Spain appears as somewhat peripheral and politically hybrid; or again, incomplete on
the basis of ideal types. It is no coincidence, then, that historiography on the Spanish Civil War has inadequately captured the Spanish reality in relation to the broader
European scene.
More to the point, classical interpretations of the Spanish Civil War and the ensuing Francoist regime were initially conceived during the last years of the dictatorship. At this point, Franco’s regime had become a kind of political fossil in the European panorama, far from the world of its birth— when fascism seemed modern, fascinating, and dynamic. Fortunately, many qualified Spanish and foreign historians have worked diligently to untangle the complex trap of clich é s, propaganda, and literature that surround the first half of the twentieth century in Spain. As in the rest of Europe, the
traumatic and complex paths of the interwar period —a gigantic transnational space of different ideologies and conflicts— gave rise to conceptions of a new kind of man who was perhaps more intellectual illusion than fact. Nonetheless, this “New Man” existed, in fascist discourse, and, arguably, in experience, and it is therefore vital to include this conception when analyzing fascist praxis, and the concrete ways in which it operated throughout Europe. The Spanish case of fascism was essentially created in the frame of a bloody civil war, whose victors ruled the country for forty years. Ultimately, its conception of masculinity permeated every aspect of social existence in Spain. Beyond the egos, the specific nuances of discourse, the differences in respect of the praxis and power struggles that are characteristic of any dictatorial regime, political
phenomena, or even party, what is clear is that there was a natural convergence around fascism between the different participants in the 1936 coup d’état, including both the rebel officers and the Spanish counterrevolutionary right. Of course, this is the case as long as fascism is understood as more than the simple possession of a party membership
card, since even this did not always mean alignment with the project represented by it. Accordingly, it is important to approach the fascist new man in both practical and
discursive terms, a view forming the methodological basis of this chapter.
account a hitherto systematic failure as Spanish historians to disseminate the results of our research abroad. In turn, this has tended to marginalize Spanish fascism’s relevance
to comparative European approaches during the interwar period. In many instances Spain appears as somewhat peripheral and politically hybrid; or again, incomplete on
the basis of ideal types. It is no coincidence, then, that historiography on the Spanish Civil War has inadequately captured the Spanish reality in relation to the broader
European scene.
More to the point, classical interpretations of the Spanish Civil War and the ensuing Francoist regime were initially conceived during the last years of the dictatorship. At this point, Franco’s regime had become a kind of political fossil in the European panorama, far from the world of its birth— when fascism seemed modern, fascinating, and dynamic. Fortunately, many qualified Spanish and foreign historians have worked diligently to untangle the complex trap of clich é s, propaganda, and literature that surround the first half of the twentieth century in Spain. As in the rest of Europe, the
traumatic and complex paths of the interwar period —a gigantic transnational space of different ideologies and conflicts— gave rise to conceptions of a new kind of man who was perhaps more intellectual illusion than fact. Nonetheless, this “New Man” existed, in fascist discourse, and, arguably, in experience, and it is therefore vital to include this conception when analyzing fascist praxis, and the concrete ways in which it operated throughout Europe. The Spanish case of fascism was essentially created in the frame of a bloody civil war, whose victors ruled the country for forty years. Ultimately, its conception of masculinity permeated every aspect of social existence in Spain. Beyond the egos, the specific nuances of discourse, the differences in respect of the praxis and power struggles that are characteristic of any dictatorial regime, political
phenomena, or even party, what is clear is that there was a natural convergence around fascism between the different participants in the 1936 coup d’état, including both the rebel officers and the Spanish counterrevolutionary right. Of course, this is the case as long as fascism is understood as more than the simple possession of a party membership
card, since even this did not always mean alignment with the project represented by it. Accordingly, it is important to approach the fascist new man in both practical and
discursive terms, a view forming the methodological basis of this chapter.
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En la presente comunicación trato de abordar el fascismo como fenómeno histórico y, también, en su relación con la actualidad, el objetivo fundamental es tomarlo en serio desde una perspectiva política a la par que historiográfica, es... more
En la presente comunicación trato de abordar el fascismo como fenómeno histórico y, también, en su relación con la actualidad, el objetivo fundamental es tomarlo en serio desde una perspectiva política a la par que historiográfica, es decir, útil para la sociedad actual. Para ello aprovechamos el prisma que nos proporciona su proyecto político para un Nuevo Orden, muy vinculado a una concepción concreta de la utopía y nacido en un momento tan particular de crisis como el periodo de entreguerras.