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The reconstruction of Spain by the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) was in hands of the dictator General Francisco Franco, who was in power until his death in 1975. Franco deliberately moulded a landscape that advocated the memory of the winning side, repressing the defeated and thereby maintaining a clearcut postwar separation between the “good” and the “bad” Spaniards. The first part of this chapter, a short overview of the reconstruction ideas and practices of the new regime is given, while the second part will explore a kind of silent and ignored sites—the sites of Francoist violence—that has played to the favour of the dictator by falling—almost—into oblivion, and even in democracy fail to integrate into any heritage discourse. As opposed to many other dictators, Franco had plenty of time. It is argued that time is a key factor to succeeding in the disappearance of memory sites in a tactics of long-lasting active passivity.

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The Quotidianisation of Spaces of Violence: On How Spaces of Violence from the Spanish Civil War Became Normalised by the Active Choice of “Leaving Them Be”

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    2025年

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  • Julie de Vos

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The reconstruction of Spain by the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) was in hands of the dictator General Francisco Franco, who was in power until his death in 1975. Franco deliberately moulded a landscape that advocated the memory of the winning side, repressing the defeated and thereby maintaining a clearcut postwar separation between the “good” and the “bad” Spaniards. The first part of this chapter, a short overview of the reconstruction ideas and practices of the new regime is given, while the second part will explore a kind of silent and ignored sites—the sites of Francoist violence—that has played to the favour of the dictator by falling—almost—into oblivion, and even in democracy fail to integrate into any heritage discourse. As opposed to many other dictators, Franco had plenty of time. It is argued that time is a key factor to succeeding in the disappearance of memory sites in a tactics of long-lasting active passivity.