Making Monuments from Mass Graves in Contemporary Spain

Daniel Palacios González is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the UNED, and previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. He got his PhD at the Universität zu Köln as an MSCA Fellow and is a member of the research project NECROPOL at the Universitat de Barcelona. His book De fosas comunes a lugares de memoria (CEPC, 2022) received the Memory Studies Association First Book Award 2023.

“This text is a cutting-edge contribution to Spanish heritage and landscape and memory studies. It is a seminal contribution to the visual and material culture analysis of post-jus bello, i.e., postwar reparative and transitional justice. […] In the context of the current resurgence of proto-fascist and overtly fascist movements in Europe and elsewhere, this project will be a major contribution to the cultural history of Fascism and post-Fascism that is urgently needed today in European public culture.”- Allen Feldman, New York University

• Introduction: Et in Arcadia Ego Chapter One: From Violence to Resistance A Place in Memory and a Mark on the Landscape Remembering During the “War” that Began After the War Mourning Rituals and Resistance Chapter Two: Recovering Bodies and Places Back to the Mass Graves in the Struggle for Democracy Building Monuments on Mass Graves Bones as a Requirement for Remembrance Chapter Three: Forensic Turn and the Return to Monuments Scientific Paradigms and Postmodern Discourses Post-Exhumation Monument Practices Returning to Monuments and Politics Final Chapter: Mass Graves in Dispute Bibliography Methodological Appendix