Francoist purging of nomenclature in Barcelona
Communion, wishes and beliefs1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12936182 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marc Gil Garrusta (0000-0002-5274-244X, ISNI: 0000000121716620 Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, corresponding author), Jaume Subirana (0000-0001-7939-0416, ISNI: 0000000121722676 Universitat Pompeu Fabra) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 253-274 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-19 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Iberian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1758-9150 • E-ISSN: 1364-971X |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/ijis_00046_1 |
| OpenAlex | W3194022778 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
As in the rest of Spain, the capture of Barcelona by Franco’s troops not only meant the defeat of the Republican side, but also a systematic persecution of all political, social and cultural references of the defeated regime. Barcelona’s first Francoist city council was an active agent from the first hour, purging municipal officials and also trying to erase all Republican, Catalan or ‘red’ traces in the public space and replacing them with new references that would make the official memory of the new regime. Our research clearly outlines how the Francoist overhaul of Barcelona city nomenclature was conducted, and the criteria on which it was based. In summary, it was a very early, fairly rapid and high-priority operation based on wiping out the Republican memory and Catalan language and exalting the heroes and martyrs of the ‘Crusade’, in which the leading figures were a small group of local but renowned faithful people. It was, without doubt, what one might term an ideological operation, carried out with full awareness of the symbolic importance of the issue
Art · Catalan · Humanities · Ideology · Nomenclature · Peasant · Persecution · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The Symbolic · History · Law · Microbial Metabolism and Applications · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |