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The political instrumentalization of professional football in Francoist Spain 1939-1975
No full textPhDThe objective of this thesis is to be the first systematic study of the
political instrumentalization of football in Francoist Spain from 1939
to 1975.
Seven separate and contrasting aspects of this political
instrumentalization may be isolated, and, accordingly, this thesis will
consist of a chapter examining each one of these seven aspects in turn.
After a first introductory chapter, Chapter Two will examine the
application of Fascist concepts to Spanish football. In the third
chapter, the questions of whether and to what extent football was used
by the Franco regime as a political soporific will be discussed. The
theme of Chapter Four is the lack of democracy within the structures of
the game, a situation that is alleged to have been deliberately imposed
by the regime in order to not create an uncomfortable comparison for
itself with the lack of national and local political democracy. The
poor working conditions of the footballers, which mirrored those of the
great majority of Spanish workers during the Franco period, are the
subject of Chapter Five. In the sixth Chapter, the political
significance of the presence in Francoist Spain of a group of refugee
players and coaches from Europe will be examined. The diplomatic
and ambassadorial significance of football, in particular of the
spectacular international triumphs of the Real Madrid club, will be
discussed in Chapter Seven. The political significance of football as a
focus for Basque and Catalan nationalist sentiment, in opposition to the
centralist Madrid regime, is the subject of Chapter Eight
Central state child care policies in postauthoritarian Spain: Implications for gender and carework arrangements
No full textIn Spain, public preschool programs have continuously expanded in the past three decades. However, this education policy has done little to support increases in the proportion of women in the paid workforce. Preschool is not child care because the former does not address the care needed by children younger than three years old and offers programs with short hours and long holidays.Publicad
An overview of research on gender in Spanish society
No full textThis article presents an overview of research on gender in Spanish society. Six areas of literature are examined including families, education, work, politics, sexuality, and men. The author argues that political factors have shaped the development of sociology of gender in Spain and that there are still important gaps in coverage in this area of sociological inquiry.Publicad
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Rhetoric in Spain: an overview
No full textIn the paper, the author stresses the main trends in Spain in contemporary research in rhetoric, as well
as the most infl uential authors, their international renown, the current major research projects and their
theoretical and methodological input into the scholarly discussion in Spain. After discussing the general
framework, the author presents contributions by individual scholars included in this monographic issu
Rhetoric in Spain: an overview
No full textIn the paper, the author stresses the main trends in Spain in contemporary research in rhetoric, as well
as the most infl uential authors, their international renown, the current major research projects and their
theoretical and methodological input into the scholarly discussion in Spain. After discussing the general
framework, the author presents contributions by individual scholars included in this monographic issu
Incongruent subjects: crisis narratives in Argentina and Spain (2001-2012)
No full text"Incongruent Subjects: Crisis Narratives in Argentina and Spain (2001-2012) studies narrative fiction and film produced in Argentina and Spain in the last decades, focusing on the cultural construction and representation of the recent financial and political crises and its effects on middle class citizens. In the analysis, crisis narratives are examined to conceptualize the reactions to these severe financial defaults by characters which formerly functioned as the very fabric of the politico-economic system now in a state of emergency. Drawing from an interdisciplinary theoretical background, it is argued that the experience of crisis for these incongruent subjects entails not only the loss of access to the means of production, but also a reinterpretation of the conditions of its citizenship as precarious. In this context, ""incongruent"" (Di Tella, 1973; Bartra, 2013) refers to the clash between the subject’s expectations and his/her material reality financial and political. At the same time, the study of the crisis narratives demonstrates how these discourses from Spain and Argentina are indelibly marked by their violent authoritarian pasts, and more recent neoliberal experiences that also redefine the meaning of the democratic. Finally, it is also argued that the transatlantic cultural texts analyzed replicate the very logic and language of capital, which leads to the analysis of these discourses in terms of meaning and function."Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2018-12-01The student, Maria Stasevicius, accepted the attached license on 2016-11-18 at 12:07.The student, Maria Stasevicius, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2016-11-18 at 12:14.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2016-11-18 at 16:00.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10271 on 2017-02-28 at 14:41:37Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-01T17:01:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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First person – Maria Losada-Perez
No full textFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Disease Models & Mechanisms, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Maria Losada-Perez is first author on ‘
A novel injury paradigm in the central nervous system of adult Drosophila: Molecular, cellular and functional aspects’, published in DMM. Maria is a postdoc in the lab of Sergio Casas-Tintó at the Cajal Institute (CSIC) in Madrid, Spain, investigating glial cell responses to central nervous system (CNS) injuries and, in this context, cell communication
The Persistence of the Myth: Europeanism in Spain from the late Francoism to the outbreak of the 2008 Economic Crisis
No full textEuropeanism is still stronger in Spain in comparison not only with other Southern European countries that joined European institutions during the second and third enlargement—but today—in comparison with some founding members too. According to the existing literature, the resilience of today’s europeanism is linked to the strong role European integration has played during the democratic transition. This chapter tries to demonstrate to what extent the economic crisis challenges this interpretation. It argues that the persistence of the “European myth” today is proof that the relationship between europeanism and democracy was not monolithic and changed over time. The author investigates the relation between europeanism and democratic values at political level from the latest years of the Franco regime up to the start of the economic crisis in 2008, looking at the so-called pre-transition period (1962–1975), the transition process (1976–1982), the period stretching from the consolidation of democracy to the Maastricht Treaty (1982–1992), and lastly from the Maastricht Treaty to the onset of the economic crisis (1992–2008)
Spain and the First World War : neutrality and crisis.
No full textPhDThe subject of this thesis is a study of Spain during
the First World War. The Spanish case is analyzed as the regional
version of the general crisis which engulfed the rest of Europe
during these years. This crisis was produced by the ideological
militancy and social struggle caused by four years of
devastating international conflict. It heralded the arrival of
mass politics which put an end to a previous era marked by
hierarchical and clientelist politics.
This thesis examines how the maintenance of strict
neutrality did not save the existing regime in Spain from the
impact of the conflict raging in Europe. Spain did not enter the
war but the war entered the country and, ironically, a conflict
in which Spain did not take part was to alter its contemporary
history.
The analysis explores the gradual disintegration of the
foundations of the ruling system, the Liberal Monarchy restored
in December 1874, during and as a consequence of the First World
War. Considerable attention is paid to the impact and importance
of the war in producing the decay of the Liberal Monarchy. This
process is examined at two levels: the political polarization and
subsequent division of the country which was provoked by the
debate about belligerence or neutrality, and the social and
economic transformations that Spain underwent as consequence a
of its privileged position as a supplier to both sides. The
result was galloping inflation, widespread social discontent and political turmoil. Under these pressures, the hegemonic system,
based on electoral falsification, widespread patronage and mass
apathy, collapsed and gave way to an inexorable process of
growing working class and right-wing militancy which led to the
military coup of 1923
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