Identity In Spain Research Articles

Introduction

Research Article| January 01 2004 Introduction Ignacio Navarrete; Ignacio Navarrete Ignacio Navarrete is Associate Professor of Spanish literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is author of Orphans of Petrarch: Poetry and Theory in the Spanish Renaissance, and of numerous articles on Spanish and Portuguese poetry and poetics, most recently on Santillana, Sa de Miranda, and Diogo Bernardes; and on Juan de Valdés and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza. A new project focuses on Spanish narrative culture 1500–1520. ignacio@socrates.berkeley.eduAurora Hermida-Ruiz (Ph.D. University of Virginia) is Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Richmond (Virginia). Her research interests are Renaissance poetry and Spanish literary historiography, with a particular focus on periodization and canon formation. She has published on cancionero poetry and Garcilaso, as well as on the work of some influential literary critics and historians, such as Rafael Lapesa (Calíope 5.2) and José Antonio Maravall. Her current book project analyzes the critical construction of Garcilaso in contemporary Spanish historiography, arguing that Garcilaso has come to symbolize European progress and modernity, and, as such, has been a powerful agent of cultural and political identity in Spain. ahermida@richmond.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Aurora Hermida-Ruiz Aurora Hermida-Ruiz Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Calíope (2004) 10 (1): 9–18. https://doi.org/10.5325/caliope.10.1.0009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ignacio Navarrete, Aurora Hermida-Ruiz; Introduction. Calíope 1 January 2004; 10 (1): 9–18. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/caliope.10.1.0009 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressCalíope Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University2004The Pennsylvania State University Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Negotiating Spain and Catalonia: Competing narratives of national identity

A narrative analysis of four main discourses of national identity in Spain, with a special focus on Catalonia, as disseminated in the Spanish press in the period between 1993 and 1996. study includes assessments of the Spanish press coverage of the 1994 USA Football World Cup, and the process of negotiation towards a pact between Partido Popular and Convergencia I Unio in central government. work is not confined to description of elements intended to shape identities, but deals heavily with the symbolic struggle between different ideological agents for the constructions of Spanish and Catalan identities, in keeping with their own socio-political and economic interests. topics include: Four Discourses of Spain and Catalonia; The Game of the Nation - Football and Identity; and Catalonia -Victim and Redeemer of Spain.

Nested identities: national and European identity in Spain

This article focuses on Spain to explain individual variation in the strength of identification with Europe. It relies mainly on statistical analysis of a nationally representative survey conducted in March 2000, but also on historical and newspaper sources. The statistical results support Inglehart's hypotheses about the contribution of high degrees of cognitive mobilization and education to the development of a European identity, but contradict his Postmaterialism thesis. Also, they support Turner's and Tajfel's hypotheses about the role of positive group images in fostering identification with groups. Finally, they show that in Spain regional and national identities are compatible with a European identity. This result is consistent with Calhoun's and Brewer's view of nested group identities who do not see a priori incompatibility between nested identities. Furthermore, it supports the authors' claim that nested identities are potentially compatible, as in Spain, when they are not portrayed and seen as impinging on each other.

Bulls, clowns, and ritual identity in Spain

Mintz, Jerome R. Carnival Song and Society: Gossip, Sexuality and Creativity in Andalusia. New York: Berg, 1997. XXXV + 267 pp. including index. $50.00 cloth, $19.50 paper. Douglass, Carrie B. Bulls, Bullfighting, and Spanish Identities. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. XII + 245 pp. including notes, literature cited, and index. $35.00 cloth.

Nation and State in Twentieth-Century Spain

Pamela Beth Radcliff, From Mobilisation to Civil War: The Politics of Polarisation in the Spanish City of Gijón, 1900–1937 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 354 pp., £40, ISBN 0–521–56213–9.Carolyn Boyd, Historia Patria: Politics, History, and National Identity in Spain, 1875–1975 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), 358 pp., $49.50, £35.00, ISBN 0–691–02656–4.Sebastian Balfour, The End of the Spanish Empire 1898–1923 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), 269 pp., £35.00, ISBN 0–198–20507–4.Clare Mar-Molinero and Angel Smith, eds., Nationalism and the Nation in the Iberian Peninsula: Competing and Conflicting Identities (Oxford/Washington, DC: Berg, 1996), 281 pp., £34.95, pb £14.95, ISBN 1–859–73175–9.Michael Richards, A Time of Silence: Civil War and the Culture of Repression in Franco's Spain, 1936–1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 314 pp., £40.00, $59.95, ISBN 0–521–59401–4.Gerald Howson, Arms for Spain: the Untold Story of the Spanish Civil War (London: John Murray, 1998), 354 pp., £25, ISBN 0–719–55556–6.During the long years of Francoism, Spanish historiography was dominated by a search for explanation. Against the regime's triumphalist account of the ‘essential’ Spain – resurgent in the form of the victorious general's authoritarian, confessional state – exiled intellectuals such as Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz and Américo Castro posed questions about the ‘problem’ of Spain, looking to the country's past to explain the political violence of the present. For those who won the Civil War of 1936–39, Spain's national destiny was to remain true to the imperial, Catholic legacy of the Habsburg monarchy. Eschewing modern ‘decadence’ and the false paths of secularism and democracy, Spain was to remain, according to Franco, the ‘spiritual reserve of the west’. Such a vision of history, in Mike Richards's words, ‘appropriated time itself in acknowledging no distinctions between past, present and future’ (Mar-Molinero and Smith, p. 152). To Francoist ideologues, both history and the nation were understood in terms of providential destiny: once understood, the national destiny would prove immutable.

Who Are the Spaniards? Nationalism and Identification in Spain

National and ethnic identity are the subject of a wide range of sociological theories. Our analysis focuses on nationalism and identity in Spain. Our data come from a probability sample of respondents in a 1992 survey. We employ measures of individual attachment to Spain that tap two dimensions: sense of belonging to Spqin andfeelings of morale associated with this identity. We estimate a measurement model that substantiates these two dimensions. We also present and test different hypotheses about the roles of ethnic origin, economic development, economic specialization, and education on attachment to Spain. Our statistical analyses reveal that respondent's ethnic origin (birth and residence in a culturally distinct region) and education have the strongest negative influences on attachment. Among the macro structural conditions, economic specialization of a region has the greatest negative impact on attachment. Furthermore, our descriptive analysis of the regional patterns of sense of belonging and feelings of morale with respect to Spain reveal some predictable patterns and some surprises in the regional rankings. Social scientists have proposed a wide range of theories to explain national identity and ethnic or nationalist political mobilization. These efforts respond in part to the intensity that ethnic and nationalist conflict has reached in states that formed at the conclusion of the two world wars (e.g., Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union), in states that emerged out of the decolonization process (e.g., Rwanda), and, more surprisingly, in old Western European states such as Great

Nationalism and the Nation in the Iberian Peninsula: Competing and Conflicting Identities.

Nationalism has recently been the focus of considerable interest, but relatively little is known about nation-building and competing identities in Spain and Portugal. In examining the roots of Iberian nationalism, and the conflicts and tensions which have come to the fore in the twentieth century, this timely collection offers a broad interdisciplinary base and socio-historical context through which to understand the region's nationalist challenges. Topics include: · how nationalism is constructed and used as a tool by political groups; · how language is used as a nationalist emblem; and · how cultural representations of nationalism manifest themselves at both a popular level and at the level of elites.

Historia patria: politics, history, and national identity in Spain, 1875-1975

Historia patria: politics, history, and national identity in Spain, 1875-1975

Public Opinion, National Integration and National Identity in Spain: The Case of the Barcelona Olympic Games

Abstract. This article analyses the impact of the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games on national integration and national identity in Spain with respect to the conflict of interests that developed around the Games between the centre and Catalonia. We argue that polarisation along nationalist lines was limited in large part because national identity in Spain today is not predominantly a unitary and exclusive entity. Dual identity, loyalty to both Spain, on the one hand, and to one's region, or nation as in the case of Catalonia, on the other, and inclusive nationalism that does not aim at complete national independence, increasingly have tended to predominate in the last decade and a half. The Olympics, then, not only polarised relations between Catalonia and Spain, they also served to accommodate antagonisms between them and thus to maintain a delicate, fragile balance of power in the new España de las autonomías.

Sobre el calendario reproductivo de las mujeres españolas

El autor estudia la formacion continua de los trabajadores en la industria del metal de dos regiones desarrolladas del norte de Espana. La formacion de los empleados es utilizada por las empresas para conseguir sus objetivos economicos. De hecho, las empresas donde se forma a los trabajadores estan mejor preparadas para abordar los retos de la competitividad. La creacion de unas relaciones industriales solidas hace necesario que la formacion de los trabajadores se abra hacia temas de desarrollo personal y profesional en las empresas, como la participacion, el enriquecimiento de las habilidades sociales, la mejora de las condiciones de trabajo, la concepcion de la empresa como tarea participada. De lo contrario, no sera posible superar el planteamiento economicista de los recursos humanos.

Review: Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain by Marsha Kinder

Review: Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain by Marsha Kinder

Blood cinema: the reconstruction of national identity in Spain

In this innovative synthesis of film history and cultural analysis, Marsha Kinder examines the films of such key directors as Bunuel, Saura, Erice, and Almodovar, as well as works from the popular cinema and television, exploring how they manifest political and cultural tensions related to the production of Spanish national identity within a changing global context. Concentrated on the decades from the 1950s to the 1990s, Kinder's work is broadly historical but essentially conceptual, moving backward and forward in time, drawing examples from earlier films and from works of art and literature, and providing close readings of a wide range of texts. Her questioning and internationalizing of the 'national cinema' concept and her application of contemporary critical theory - especially insights from feminism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, and discourse theory - distinguish Blood Cinema from previous film histories. The author also makes use of a variety of sources within Spain such as the commentaries on Spanish character and culture by Unamunov and others, the contemporary debate over the restructuring of Spanish television. Kinder's book moves Spanish cinema into the mainstream of film studies by demonstrating that a knowledge of its history alters and enriches our understanding of world cinema. The interactive CD-ROM is available from CINE-DISCS, 2021 Holly Hill Terrace, Los Angeles, CA 90068, (213) 876-7678.

Translating 1492: Mexico's and Spain's First National Celebrations of the "Discovery" of the Americas

Translating 1492: Mexico's and Spain's First National Celebrations of the "Discovery" of the Americas

Diferencias Geográficas de la Mortalidad Por Tumores Digestivos en España, 1980–1984

The purpose of this study is to analyze the geographical distribution of eight gastrointestinal (GI) cancer sites in Spain, during the 1980-1984 period. Data for deaths attributed to each cancer site were obtained from Spain's National Institute for Statistics (INE). Standardized Mortality Ratios (SMR) were calculated for each GI cancer site, using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) 9th revision. Statistical tests were performed to determine whether SMR's were statistically significant. The mortality distribution for cancers of the oropharynx and oesophagus showed a similar pattern, which might suggest some common risk factor in their etiology. Stomach cancer presented high SMR's in the northern central areas (Meseta). Colon, rectum and pancreas cancer sites emerged with irregular patterns though high SMR's were more often observed in developed areas within the country.

Spain's National New Materials Program Sets Goals

Spain's National New Materials Program Sets Goals