37 research outputs found
âThe 15-M movement: Formed by and Formative of Counter-mapping and Spatial Activismâ by Stephen Luis Vilaseca
Art Education, Class, and Gender in a Foreign Art Gallery: Nineteenth-Century Cultural Travelers and the Prado Museum in Madrid
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Leisure and Agrarian Reform: Liberal Governance in the Traveling Museums of Spanish Misiones PedagĂłgicas (1931â1933)
This article examines the program of bringing itinerant art museums to the rural areas implemented by the Misiones PedagĂłgicas of Spainâs Second Republic. My analysis seeks to answer the following questions: a) Why did the government support these initiatives while peasants were using violence to contest its agrarian reform? b) How did museums fit into the Republicâs program of public education? And 3) how did they treat the peasants\u27 own culture? Tracing the philosophical foundations of the Museo del Pueblo in Manuel BartolomĂ© de Cosso\u27s (1857â1935) theory of leisure, I discuss Cosso\u27s indebtedness to late-Victorian uses of art education for the poor and to krausista philosophy. I argue that the Museo del Puebloâs and the Misiones\u27 emphasis on raising the spirit of citizenship by reorganizing peasants\u27 free time constituted an experiment in liberal governance that responded to the urgent political need to implement a democratic policy for ruling the masses
Places/Non-Places: Galicia on the \u3cem\u3eRoad of St. James\u3c/em\u3e
This chapter offers a critical reconsideration of the theory according to which the Road of St. James (Camiño de Santiago) provides a site for ethnic identity-making capable of modernizing Galicia as a rural region. By definition, a route or itineraryârather than a fixed site of any kindâprovides a sequence of places to pass through, overlapping in an intriguing way with Marc AugĂ©âs concept of ânon-places.â Putting into a comparative perspective the measures that led to the consolidation of the Road as a trans-regional and transnational itinerary during the presidency of the conservative Partido Popular in Galicia between 1990 and 2005, the essay demonstrates that the configuration of a regional image based on a larger itinerary may respond to broader, questionable, European agendas
Picturesque Violence: Tourism, the Film Industry, and the Heritagization of âBandolerosâ in Spain, 1905â1936
This article examines the debates about the Andalusian âbandolerosâ (bandits) in the context of early tourism as a state-guided policy in Spain. As we argue, the development of tourism made Spanish intellectuals reconsider the real armed activity in AndalucĂa as part of Spanish national heritage and a tourist attraction. Consistent with the stereotypical image of Spain coined by the Romantic travelers, such an early heritagization of brigandry reveals the role of the Ă©lites in recasting exotic imagery into modern tourism-shaped identities: in the hands of early century writers, bandits were reshaped as part of the âmodern picturesqueâ. Furthermore, the role given to brigands in early cinema allows one to see how the early heritage discourse bridged transnational and centralist interests at the expense of the regional ones, thus foreshadowing the debates about hegemony in present-day heritage studies
Review of \u3cem\u3eBy the Grace of God: Francoist Spain and the Sacred Roots of Political Imagination\u3c/em\u3e by William Viestenz
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