Pablo Sánchez León
Biographic Data
| ID | 997507 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pablo Sánchez León |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pablo Sánchez |
| FAMILY NAME | León |
| SIGNATURE | LEÓN P S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Basque Country |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0038-0413 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
José María Cardesín Díaz (dir), Revuelta popular y violencia colectiva en la Guerra de Independencia. Madrid
Historia del tiempo presente, estudios sobre memoria e historia conceptual
Este texto trata de asentar sobre bases más firmes la historia del tiempo presente, superando las limitaciones epistemológicas, metodológicas y teóricas que la acompañan desde su nacimiento, a través de la combinación de aportes procedentes de los estudios sobre memoria y la historia de los conceptos. Para ello comienza señalando las analogías y convergencias entre historia del tiempo presente y memoria, así como sus debilidades comunes, que tien…
Claiming the People's Past
This book offers a global and systematic overview of populist politics of history in the twenty-first century. An international group of scholars interrogates how and why populists engage with the past. Twelve case studies focus on uses of history and memory by populist movements across the globe – ranging from Brazil to Bangladesh, from Poland to Tanzania. Five thematic chapters zoom in on key features of populism: its relation to time, national…
Concepción de la nación española en la Ilustración
Este artículo aborda la configuración histórica de la nación española desde la perspectiva de la continuidad en el tiempo que el Antiguo Régimen presuponía a las comunidades políticas. Partiendo de la singular temporalidad de la Monarquía hispánica como un imperio, se ofrece un recorrido por el discurso elaborado para tratar de disipar la amenaza de su decadencia. Dicho discurso, centrado en la adopción del lenguaje del comercio y la ciencia de l…
El pueblo en el primer liberalismo hispano
Este texto analiza el concepto de pueblo en el lenguaje, como identidad colectiva y como sujeto de representación política en la crisis de la monarquía hispánica desde 1808 y a lo largo del proceso constituyente que culminó con la promulgación de la Constitución de 1812. A partir de los usos discursivos de pueblo en crónicas, ensayos de filosofía política, artículos de prensa y piezas oratorias parlamentarias señala la relevancia de la semántica …
Civil War, Genocide and Beyond
This article contends that the category of civil war is not suitable for studying the massacres of civilians during the Spanish 1936–1039 war and its aftermath. In trying to build an alternative narrative for the understanding of the destruction of the democratic republic of 1931 founded on the human rights paradigm, an analytical framework is devised based on the deficit in deliberation processes allowing for the re-classification of social cons…
The Study of Nation and Patria as Communities of Identity
This article argues for a renovation in the study of nationalism by addressing the issue of the rationality underlying the decisions by citizens willing to leave their homelands. From the example of unforced exiles from the 1939 Republican diaspora (and inner exiles as well), the text starts with providing a theory of disidentification from a nation for the sake of civic commitment. Having shown the relevance of jointly studying the language of n…
La memoria de los verdugos de 1936 y la cultura de la impuni(bili)dad en la democracia posfranquista
Este texto se interesa por los efectos que la producción académica produce sobre la construcción social del victimario, y se centra en el caso de los victimarios de la guerra española de 1936 y su estatus en la cultura de la democracia posfranquista. Escoge dos obras de especialistas dirigidas al público amplio y rastrea a partir de ellas cómo el tratamiento de los victimarios se encuentra predefinido por un marco que exonera de partida a determi…
Límites del neoliberalismo, límites de la democracia = Limits of neoliberalism, limits of democracy
.-
Science, Customs, and the Modern Subject
Eighteenth-century Spain was haunted by a sense of decadence. Consequently, intellectual innovation developed in its attempt to recover its lost grandeur while keeping its Catholic culture. In such a context, politicaleconomic reflection focused in a remarkable way on a scientific approach to social habits. Reception of foreign developments was adapted to a framework that fostered the enhancement of individualism but not of individual self-determ…
Past Jihads, Citizenship and Regimes of Memory in Modern Spain
The involvement of Western citizens in jihadist activities bears important epistemological consequences: presented as a clash of civilizations, Islamic terrorism brings to the fore the issue of civil war. This article, after underlining that both terrorism and holy wars have a long pedigree in Western history, traces the interplay of religious and political tropes and semantics in the origin of terrorism, in the West in general and in Spain in pa…
Desclasamientoy desencanto. La representación de las clases medias como eje de una relectura generacional de la transición española
A partir de un ejemplo de cultura underground de mediados de los años setenta, este texto reflexiona sobre los límites de las narrativas convencionales y críticas sobre la instauración de la democracia en España debido a su sesgo politológico y plantea la existencia de un metarrelato sociológico subyacente común. Su fundamento es una representación de la clase media como estrato social que suaviza el conflicto social y garantiza la modernización …
Overcoming the Violent Past in Spain, 1939–2009
Although part of a wider cultural and political phenomenon in world democracies, the revival movement on memory from traumatic past events has in the case of Spain strong contextual bearings. Drawing on the concept of ‘regimes of memory’, this article discusses two successive patterns of supply and demand of discourse and policies on memory from the end of the 1936–1939 Civil War to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Describing the rhetor…
The European Conceptual History Project (ECHP)
After a complex integration process which has taken more than half a century, most Europeans—and non-Europeans—no longer identify Europe with simply an economic common market; yet the final political status of the European Union is still an open question. In general, Europe is usually regarded as the birthplace of a set of values claiming universal validity and serving as the basic political reference for citizens and institutions throughout the …
Conceiving the Multitude
The image of the crowd as an irrational, spontaneous multitude is commonly related to the works of a first generation of social psychologists writing in the early twentieth century, yet its basic features can be found in conceptual innovations developed as early as the Enlightenment. This article focuses on a particular protest in eighteenth-century Spain in order to reflect on the transformation in the meaning of essential terms which occurred i…
Changing Patterns of Urban Conflict in Late Medieval Castile
Medieval society, in Rodney Hilton's masterly portrayal, was profoundly shaped by the antagonism between rural landlords and peasants. Although towns and cities were also ‘one of its essential constitutive components’, they, he insisted, should not be viewed as the loci of fundamental conflicts emerging from feudal relations.1 Parallel to their distinctive economic structures, important differences can also be identified in the character of the s…
El poder de contar y el paraíso perdido. Polémicas mediáticas y construcción colectiva de la memoria en España
The past decade has seen an increasing interest on the part of the Spanish media and civil society in “historical memory”, marked, among other things, by a number of public debates on issues related to recent Spanish history (1931-1981). In these debates, academic historians have participated alongside other social actors, ranging from writers and filmmakers to citizen activists. The following essay analyzes one such drawn-out polemic that took p…
Conceiving the Multitude
The image of the crowd as an irrational, spontaneous multitude is commonly related to the works of a first generation of social psychologists writing in the early twentieth century, yet its basic features can be found in conceptual innovations developed as early as the Enlightenment. This article focuses on a particular protest in eighteenth-century Spain in order to reflect on the transformation in the meaning of essential terms which occurred i…
El poder de contar y el paraíso perdido. Polémicas mediáticas y construcción colectiva de la memoria en España
The past decade has seen an increasing interest on the part of the Spanish media and civil society in “historical memory”, marked, among other things, by a number of public debates on issues related to recent Spanish history (1931-1981). In these debates, academic historians have participated alongside other social actors, ranging from writers and filmmakers to citizen activists. The following essay analyzes one such drawn-out polemic that took p…
The Study of Nation and Patria as Communities of Identity
This article argues for a renovation in the study of nationalism by addressing the issue of the rationality underlying the decisions by citizens willing to leave their homelands. From the example of unforced exiles from the 1939 Republican diaspora (and inner exiles as well), the text starts with providing a theory of disidentification from a nation for the sake of civic commitment. Having shown the relevance of jointly studying the language of n…
Overcoming the Violent Past in Spain, 1939–2009
Although part of a wider cultural and political phenomenon in world democracies, the revival movement on memory from traumatic past events has in the case of Spain strong contextual bearings. Drawing on the concept of ‘regimes of memory’, this article discusses two successive patterns of supply and demand of discourse and policies on memory from the end of the 1936–1939 Civil War to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Describing the rhetor…
El pueblo en el primer liberalismo hispano
Este texto analiza el concepto de pueblo en el lenguaje, como identidad colectiva y como sujeto de representación política en la crisis de la monarquía hispánica desde 1808 y a lo largo del proceso constituyente que culminó con la promulgación de la Constitución de 1812. A partir de los usos discursivos de pueblo en crónicas, ensayos de filosofía política, artículos de prensa y piezas oratorias parlamentarias señala la relevancia de la semántica …
Desclasamientoy desencanto. La representación de las clases medias como eje de una relectura generacional de la transición española
A partir de un ejemplo de cultura underground de mediados de los años setenta, este texto reflexiona sobre los límites de las narrativas convencionales y críticas sobre la instauración de la democracia en España debido a su sesgo politológico y plantea la existencia de un metarrelato sociológico subyacente común. Su fundamento es una representación de la clase media como estrato social que suaviza el conflicto social y garantiza la modernización …
Civil War, Genocide and Beyond
This article contends that the category of civil war is not suitable for studying the massacres of civilians during the Spanish 1936–1039 war and its aftermath. In trying to build an alternative narrative for the understanding of the destruction of the democratic republic of 1931 founded on the human rights paradigm, an analytical framework is devised based on the deficit in deliberation processes allowing for the re-classification of social cons…
La memoria de los verdugos de 1936 y la cultura de la impuni(bili)dad en la democracia posfranquista
Este texto se interesa por los efectos que la producción académica produce sobre la construcción social del victimario, y se centra en el caso de los victimarios de la guerra española de 1936 y su estatus en la cultura de la democracia posfranquista. Escoge dos obras de especialistas dirigidas al público amplio y rastrea a partir de ellas cómo el tratamiento de los victimarios se encuentra predefinido por un marco que exonera de partida a determi…
Past Jihads, Citizenship and Regimes of Memory in Modern Spain
The involvement of Western citizens in jihadist activities bears important epistemological consequences: presented as a clash of civilizations, Islamic terrorism brings to the fore the issue of civil war. This article, after underlining that both terrorism and holy wars have a long pedigree in Western history, traces the interplay of religious and political tropes and semantics in the origin of terrorism, in the West in general and in Spain in pa…
El poder de contar y el paraíso perdido. Polémicas mediáticas y construcción colectiva de la memoria en España
The past decade has seen an increasing interest on the part of the Spanish media and civil society in “historical memory”, marked, among other things, by a number of public debates on issues related to recent Spanish history (1931-1981). In these debates, academic historians have participated alongside other social actors, ranging from writers and filmmakers to citizen activists. The following essay analyzes one such drawn-out polemic that took p…
Changing Patterns of Urban Conflict in Late Medieval Castile
Medieval society, in Rodney Hilton's masterly portrayal, was profoundly shaped by the antagonism between rural landlords and peasants. Although towns and cities were also ‘one of its essential constitutive components’, they, he insisted, should not be viewed as the loci of fundamental conflicts emerging from feudal relations.1 Parallel to their distinctive economic structures, important differences can also be identified in the character of the s…
The European Conceptual History Project (ECHP)
After a complex integration process which has taken more than half a century, most Europeans—and non-Europeans—no longer identify Europe with simply an economic common market; yet the final political status of the European Union is still an open question. In general, Europe is usually regarded as the birthplace of a set of values claiming universal validity and serving as the basic political reference for citizens and institutions throughout the …
Conceiving the Multitude
The image of the crowd as an irrational, spontaneous multitude is commonly related to the works of a first generation of social psychologists writing in the early twentieth century, yet its basic features can be found in conceptual innovations developed as early as the Enlightenment. This article focuses on a particular protest in eighteenth-century Spain in order to reflect on the transformation in the meaning of essential terms which occurred i…
Overcoming the Violent Past in Spain, 1939–2009
Although part of a wider cultural and political phenomenon in world democracies, the revival movement on memory from traumatic past events has in the case of Spain strong contextual bearings. Drawing on the concept of ‘regimes of memory’, this article discusses two successive patterns of supply and demand of discourse and policies on memory from the end of the 1936–1939 Civil War to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Describing the rhetor…
Desclasamientoy desencanto. La representación de las clases medias como eje de una relectura generacional de la transición española
A partir de un ejemplo de cultura underground de mediados de los años setenta, este texto reflexiona sobre los límites de las narrativas convencionales y críticas sobre la instauración de la democracia en España debido a su sesgo politológico y plantea la existencia de un metarrelato sociológico subyacente común. Su fundamento es una representación de la clase media como estrato social que suaviza el conflicto social y garantiza la modernización …
Past Jihads, Citizenship and Regimes of Memory in Modern Spain
The involvement of Western citizens in jihadist activities bears important epistemological consequences: presented as a clash of civilizations, Islamic terrorism brings to the fore the issue of civil war. This article, after underlining that both terrorism and holy wars have a long pedigree in Western history, traces the interplay of religious and political tropes and semantics in the origin of terrorism, in the West in general and in Spain in pa…
Science, Customs, and the Modern Subject
Eighteenth-century Spain was haunted by a sense of decadence. Consequently, intellectual innovation developed in its attempt to recover its lost grandeur while keeping its Catholic culture. In such a context, politicaleconomic reflection focused in a remarkable way on a scientific approach to social habits. Reception of foreign developments was adapted to a framework that fostered the enhancement of individualism but not of individual self-determ…
Límites del neoliberalismo, límites de la democracia = Limits of neoliberalism, limits of democracy
.-
Civil War, Genocide and Beyond
This article contends that the category of civil war is not suitable for studying the massacres of civilians during the Spanish 1936–1039 war and its aftermath. In trying to build an alternative narrative for the understanding of the destruction of the democratic republic of 1931 founded on the human rights paradigm, an analytical framework is devised based on the deficit in deliberation processes allowing for the re-classification of social cons…
The Study of Nation and Patria as Communities of Identity
This article argues for a renovation in the study of nationalism by addressing the issue of the rationality underlying the decisions by citizens willing to leave their homelands. From the example of unforced exiles from the 1939 Republican diaspora (and inner exiles as well), the text starts with providing a theory of disidentification from a nation for the sake of civic commitment. Having shown the relevance of jointly studying the language of n…
La memoria de los verdugos de 1936 y la cultura de la impuni(bili)dad en la democracia posfranquista
Este texto se interesa por los efectos que la producción académica produce sobre la construcción social del victimario, y se centra en el caso de los victimarios de la guerra española de 1936 y su estatus en la cultura de la democracia posfranquista. Escoge dos obras de especialistas dirigidas al público amplio y rastrea a partir de ellas cómo el tratamiento de los victimarios se encuentra predefinido por un marco que exonera de partida a determi…
Concepción de la nación española en la Ilustración
Este artículo aborda la configuración histórica de la nación española desde la perspectiva de la continuidad en el tiempo que el Antiguo Régimen presuponía a las comunidades políticas. Partiendo de la singular temporalidad de la Monarquía hispánica como un imperio, se ofrece un recorrido por el discurso elaborado para tratar de disipar la amenaza de su decadencia. Dicho discurso, centrado en la adopción del lenguaje del comercio y la ciencia de l…
El pueblo en el primer liberalismo hispano
Este texto analiza el concepto de pueblo en el lenguaje, como identidad colectiva y como sujeto de representación política en la crisis de la monarquía hispánica desde 1808 y a lo largo del proceso constituyente que culminó con la promulgación de la Constitución de 1812. A partir de los usos discursivos de pueblo en crónicas, ensayos de filosofía política, artículos de prensa y piezas oratorias parlamentarias señala la relevancia de la semántica …
Claiming the People's Past
This book offers a global and systematic overview of populist politics of history in the twenty-first century. An international group of scholars interrogates how and why populists engage with the past. Twelve case studies focus on uses of history and memory by populist movements across the globe – ranging from Brazil to Bangladesh, from Poland to Tanzania. Five thematic chapters zoom in on key features of populism: its relation to time, national…
José María Cardesín Díaz (dir), Revuelta popular y violencia colectiva en la Guerra de Independencia. Madrid
Historia del tiempo presente, estudios sobre memoria e historia conceptual
Este texto trata de asentar sobre bases más firmes la historia del tiempo presente, superando las limitaciones epistemológicas, metodológicas y teóricas que la acompañan desde su nacimiento, a través de la combinación de aportes procedentes de los estudios sobre memoria y la historia de los conceptos. Para ello comienza señalando las analogías y convergencias entre historia del tiempo presente y memoria, así como sus debilidades comunes, que tien…
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