International Political Sociology through the Colonial Mirror

A Contrapuntal Reading of the Spanish Civil War

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2236690
AutoresAlejandro Colas (0000-0003-3301-4508, Birkbeck, University of London, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen18
Número2
Fecha de publicación2024-03-20
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Political Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1749-5679 • E-ISSN: 1749-5687
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ips/olae009
OpenAlexW4394729030
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas37

This paper invokes Edward Said's notion of counterpoint to present a transnational sociological account of the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. This contrapuntal reading raises questions of sovereignty, violence, and identity, which-filtered through a political sociological lens-offer novel perspectives on the power of empire and colonialism in relation to these key IR categories. Specifically, I argue that the Spanish colonial frontier in Morocco served as a laboratory for distinctive expressions of transnational state-building, violence, and identity-formation, which were reproduced in the metropolitan heartlands of the Iberian Peninsula during the interwar years. The complex interaction between core and periphery in this period had momentous implications for both Spanish and Moroccan history, many of which continue to play out in contemporary politics across the Gibraltar Strait

Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Empire · Frontier · Identity (music) · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Sovereignty · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science) · Anthropology · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · Law · North African History and Literature · Spanish History and Politics