RT Book
T1 Revealing New Truths about Spain's Violent Past: Perpetrators' Confessions and Victim Exhumations
T2 St Antony's Series
T2 Springer eBook Collection
A1 Aguilar Fernández, Paloma 1965-
A2 Payne, Leigh A. 1956-
LA English
PP London s.l.
PB Palgrave Macmillan UK
YR 2016
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/871486423
AB The foundation of a stable democracy in Spain was built on a settled account: an agreement that both sides were equally guilty of violence, a consensus to avoid contention, and a pact of oblivion as the pathway to peace and democracy. That foundation is beginning to crack as perpetrators’ confessions upset the silence and exhumations of mass graves unbury new truths. It has become possible, even if not completely socially acceptable, to speak openly about the past, to disclose the testimonies of the victims, and to ask for truth and justice. Contentious coexistence that put political participation, contestation, and expression in practice has begun to emerge. This book analyzes how this recent transformation has occurred. It recognizes that political processes are not always linear and inexorable. Thus, it remains to be seen how far contentious coexistence will go in Spain
AB Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Unsettling Accounts -- 2. Heroic Historic Confessions -- 3. Few, Fugative, and Fleeting Confessions -- 4. Unsettling the Balance -- 5. Preposterous Denial -- 6. Unsettling Bones as Unsettling Accounts -- Conclusion
OP 110
CN D1-DX301
SN 9781137562296
K1 Europe : History-1492-
K1 History
K1 Historiography
K1 Oral History
K1 Europe—History—1492-.
DO 10.1057/978-1-137-56229-6