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Title Science, culture and national identity in Francoist Spain, 1939-1959 / Marició Janué i Miret, Albert Presas i Puig, editors
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

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Contents Part I. Methodology -- 1. Introduction: The usefulness of science and culture as nationalization tools in the early Franco regime: Maricio Janue-Miret; Albert Presas i Puig -- 2. Science, Nation and Culture: Changing Meanings: Mitchell G. Ash -- Part II: Scientific and cultural policy in the New State -- 3. The foreign modernity: Symbolic order and science policy at the CSIC during early Francoism: Andres Antolin Hofrichter -- 4. Scenarios of Science and Symbols of the New State:Political Resignification of the University City of Madrid: Carolina Rodriguez Lopez -- 5. Epistemic Communities and Science Makers in the Franco Regime:A Study of the Nuclear Energy Board: Albert Presas i Puig -- 6. Science and technology in the nationalist debate in Catalonia after the Civil War: Antoni Roca Rosell -- Part III. Women's space in the science and culture of the regime -- 7. In the Land of Men. Women in Applied Sciences at the CSIC: Fernando Garcia Naharro -- 8. A field open to women: censorship of childrens and youth literature under Franco through women readers: Ramon Tena Fernandez and Jose Soto Vazquez -- 9. The contribution of the Female Section to the Hispanic Community of Nations: Vanessa Tessada Sepulveda -- Part IV: Perspectives of nationalization in scientific disciplines and the arts -- 10. On the political value of science: the three lives of Spanish Mathematics in early Francoism: Jose M. Pacheco -- 11. The influence of French fundamentalist nationalism on the ideology of the Generation of 1948: Sara Prades Plaza -- 12. Of queens, soldiers, nuns, and bullfighters: nationalist stories in the fiction films of the Franco regime (19391963): Gabriela Viadero Carral -- 13. The nationalisation of the avant-garde during Francoism: Jorge Luis Marzo -- Part V. Internationalization of science and culture in the Franco regime -- 14. French Hispanism and Spanish cultural diplomacy during the Franco regime: Antonio Nino -- 15. Pause and adaptation in the post-war period: the re-establishment of Spanish-German cultural diplomacy (1945-1958): Maricio Janue i Miret -- 16. Un scandale: Franco a lUNESCO: The Franco Dictatorship and the Struggle for International Representation in the Social Sciences: Nicolas Sesma -- 17. Welcome to the Future! Science as a tool for American geopolitics in 1950s Spain: Lorenzo Delgado Gomez-Escalonilla
Summary This book examines the role that science and culture held as instruments of nationalization policies during the first phase of the Franco regime in Spain. It considers the reciprocal relationship between political legitimacy and developments in science and culture, and explores the nationalization efforts in Spain in the 1940s and 1950s, via the complex process of transmitting narratives of national identity, through ideas, representations and homogenizing practices. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the volume features insights into how scientific and cultural language and symbols were used to formulate national identity, through institutions, resource distribution and specific national policies. Split into five parts, the collection considers policies in the Francoist New State, the role of women in these debates, and perspectives on the nationalization and internationalization efforts that made use of scientific and cultural spheres. Chapters also feature insights into cinema, literature, cultural diplomacy, mathematics and technology in debates on Catalonia, the Nuclear Energy Board, the Spanish National Research Council, and how scientific tools in Spain in this era fed into wider geopolitics with America and onto the UNESCO stage
Subject Science -- Social aspects -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
Nationalism and science -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
Science -- Political aspects -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
Nationalism and science
Science -- Political aspects
Science -- Social aspects
SUBJECT Spain -- History -- 1939-1975. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85126139
Subject Spain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Janué i Miret, Marició, editor
Presas i Puig, Albert, editor
ISBN 9783030586461
3030586464