Recasting culture and space in Iberian contexts / edited by Sharon R. Roseman and Shawn S. Parkhurst.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roseman, Sharon R., 1963-

Parkhurst, Shawn S., 1958-

Series:

SUNY series in national identities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spain--Civilization.

Spain.

Civilization.

National characteristics, Spanish.

Portugal--Civilization.

Portugal.

National characteristics, Portuguese.

Physical Description:

xi, 313 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2008]

Summary:

Focusing on the interplay of space, culture, and power in Iberia since 1850, this collection of case studies demonstrates how questions about social identities and power are also questions about mapping, texts, and concrete spaces. The late nineteenth and twentieth centuries are marked by a drive toward grandiose ideological conceptualizations that affected the production of ideas about modern geographical space. The contributors examine the links between this historical context and the emergence of specific intellectual traditions, as well as everyday discourses and practices. They also explore the making of conflicted spaces in Portugal and Spain, and in foreign sites impacted by Iberian-origin exile or colonial settlement. The essays compel readers to consider exactly how people's political identifications have been forged through cultural struggles over the uses and meanings of physical spaces, whether these are in Barcelona, Bilbao, villages in the Alto Douro of Portugal or in Galician Spain, Malacca, the countryside near Avila (the "City of the Saints"), or Catalans' wartime London.

Contents:

Culture and space in Iberian anthropology / Sharon R. Roseman and Shawn S. Parkhurst

The hidden empire : peasants, nation building, and empire in Portuguese anthropology / João Leal

Displaced identities among the Malacca Portuguese / Brian Juan O'Neill

Imperialist ideology and representations of the Portuguese provinces during the early estado novo / António Medeiros

Re-presenting the fascist classroom : education as a space of memory in contemporary Spain / Susan M. DiGiacomo

Cursillos and concursos in rural Galicia : the Sección Femenina and the modernizing project of the Franco dictatorship / Sharon R. Roseman

Crossing borders, reconfiguring lives : a Catalan exile family in wartime London / Oriol Pi-Sunyer

The city and the countryside : the virgin of Sonsoles / María Cátedra

Race and space in interpretations of Portugal : the north-south division and representations of Portuguese national identity in the 19th and 20th centuries / José Manuel Sobral

Local correspondence : a village writer's contribution to the cultural production of regionality in the Alto Douro of northern Portugal / Shawn S. Parkhurst

Kafe Antzokia : the global meets the local in Basque cultural politics / Jacqueline Urla

Displacements : the experience of vectored spaces in peninsular places / James W. Fernandez.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791473115

0791473112

OCLC:

86117659