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Review of: Aurora G. Morcillo, \u3ci\u3eThe Seduction of Modern Spain: The Female Body and the Francoist Body Politic\u3c/i\u3e
No full textReview of: Pamela Beth Radcliff, \u3ci\u3eMaking Democratic Citizens in Spain: Civil Society and the Popular Origins of the Transition, 1960-1978\u3c/i\u3e
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Water as a Collective Responsibility: The Tribunal de las Aguas and the Valencian Community
No full textIn this article, we argue that the Tribunal de las Aguas, historically part of a larger complex of irrigation communities, provides a foundation for an alternative model of water management, and has survived for over a thousand years precisely because it answers the community’s needs, and contributes to Valencian regional identity. As research has recently shown in African cases, providing education, infrastructure, and management opportunities to local communities helps to encourage both sustainability and direct involvement in water distribution, contrary to the impersonal distribution characteristic of privatized systems. The Tribunal de las Aguas has transcended tremendous political, social, and economic change in Spain in general, and Valencia in particular, and remains an important facet of local identity. As water issues become more and more pressing in the face of climate change, pollution, and seemingly insatiable demand, we will need to find more creative and innovative ways to address the often conflicting demands on this most valuable resource. Furthermore, the gendered aspects of water rights and distribution continue to play such a significant role in our global water cultures, and our article will contribute to a larger discussion of women’s roles in irrigation and water use in different historical contexts
Review of Janna Bianchini, The Queen’s Hand: Power and Authority in the Reign of Berenguela of Castile
No full textLa mujer en la prensa católica de Murcia a principios del siglo XX
No full textEl siguiente artículo pretende analizar el discurso sobre la mujer a través de la prensa católica de comienzos del siglo XX en Murcia, teniendo en cuenta la nueva situación social a la que debía enfrentarse la Iglesia tras el asentamiento de las ideologías laicistas y secularizadoras que venían configurándose ya desde siglos anteriores. Para ello, se estudiará el papel que debía desempeñar la mujer dentro de la familia (como esposa y como madre); así como la construcción del estereotipo femenino en el ámbito público. En definitiva, se trata de desentrañar los intentos de la Iglesia católica por utilizar a la mujer en particular y a la familia en general, en su proyecto de recristianización de la sociedad a través de un nuevo medio de expresión: la prensa
“Preparing for the Next War”: the Portuguese Army Staff Corps and the Military Reforms on the eve of the Colonial Wars
No full textThis text is part of an ongoing research project on the Portuguese Army Staff Corps, created in the first half of the 19th Century. The project focuses mainly on the period between its modern reorganization, in 1937, and its extinction in 1974. One of the main topics of the project is to evaluate and to understand the way officers from the Portuguese Army Staff Corps (ASF) played a relevant role in preparing the Portuguese Army for the colonial wars that started in Angola in 1961. Since the late 1950s many members of the ASF realized that the next armed conflicts Portugal would have to face would be the wars for national liberation in Africa, therefore, wars of counterinsurgency, very different from the conventional wars they were prepared to fight
Popular Front, war and internationalism in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War
No full textThis article analyzes during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) the connexion between the communist movement in Catalonia and the strategy of Popular Front designed by the Communist International. Catalonia was the only zone of the Spanish Republic where this Popular Front was materialized in terms of political fusion. The result was the beginning of an antifascist, Marxist and nationalist party, called Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia. This party questioned the real will of the Communist International and its Spanish official section to put the project of politic fusion into practice. It also questioned the will of both to recognize and accept the national diversity of the Spanish State
