The Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere

From the Enlightenment to the Indignados
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-235-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 624 g

Reihe: Studies in Latin American and Spanish History

Since the explosion of the indignados movement beginning in 2011, there has been a renewed interest in the concept of the “public sphere” in a Spanish context: how it relates to society and to political power, and how it has evolved over the centuries. The Configuration of the Spanish Public Sphere brings together contributions from leading scholars in Hispanic studies, across a wide range of disciplines, to investigate various aspects of these processes, offering a long-term, panoramic view that touches on one of the most urgent issues for contemporary European societies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Torres, David Jiménez

González, Leticia Villamediana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Introduction: A Spanish Public Sphere?

Leticia Villamediana González and David Jiménez Torres

PART I: THE 18TH CENTURY

Chapter 1. Spain and Habermas’s Public Sphere: A Revisionist View

Sally-Ann Kitts

Chapter 2. Benito Jerónimo Feijoo in the Initial Stages of the Spanish Public Sphere: Some Considerations

Noelia García Díaz

Chapter 3. ‘Of National Politeness’: Civility and National Character in Spanish Travel Accounts to Great Britain

Mónica Bolufer Peruga

PART II: THE 19TH CENTURY

Chapter 4. News, Censorship and Propaganda in the Gazeta de Mexico during the Summer of 1808

Francisco Eissa-Barroso

Chapter 5. The Role of the Military in the Development of a Spanish Liberal Public Sphere, 1820-1823

Richard Meyer

Chapter 6. The Shape of the Public Sphere in Spain (1860-1899): A Dream of Generalities

Andrew Ginger

PART III: THE 20TH CENTURY

Chapter 7. New Women for the Public Space: Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira and the Eugenic Mother (1879-1956)

Alba González

Chapter 8. Miguel de Unamuno’s Notion of Public Sphere

Stephen G. H. Roberts

Chapter 9. Spanish Modern Times: A Cinematographic National Sphere in the First Third of the 20th century

Marta García Carrión

Chapter 10. What was Public Opinion in the Francoist ‘New State’? Information, Publics and Rumour in the Spanish Postwar (1939-1945)

Francisco Sevillano

PART IV: THE 21ST CENTURY

Chapter 11. The Political Cartoonist as Intellectual: Cultural Hegemony and Consensus in Crisis

Daniel Mourenza

Chapter 12. The Old, the New and the Possible: Challenging Discourses and the Narrative Breach in post-neoliberal crisis Spain

Federico López-Terra

Chapter 13. The 15M Movement: Reinvigorating the Public Sphere in Spain

Georgina Blakeley

Conclusion

Further Reading

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Torres, David Jiménez
David Jiménez Torres is Associate Professor at Universidad Camilo José Cela in Spain. He has taught at the University of Manchester and University of Cambridge, where he obtained his doctorate. He is the author of the monograph Ramiro de Maeztu and England: Imaginaries, Realities and Repercussions of a Cultural Encounter (2016). He is also a novelist and a columnist.

González, Leticia Villamediana
Leticia Villamediana González is Senior Teaching Fellow in Hispanic Studies at the University of Warwick. She has taught at Queen's University, Belfast, where she obtained her doctorate. Her monograph Anglomanía: La Imagen de Inglaterra en la Prensa Española del Siglo XVIII (2019) focuses on the study of anglomania and anglophobia in the Spanish press and their contribution to Spain’s programme of Enlightenment reform.

David Jiménez Torres is Associate Professor at Universidad Camilo José Cela in Spain. He has taught at the University of Manchester and University of Cambridge, where he obtained his doctorate. He is the author of the monograph Ramiro de Maeztu and England: Imaginaries, Realities and Repercussions of a Cultural Encounter (2016). He is also a novelist and a columnist.