SYMBOL AND RITUAL IN THE NEW SPAIN by Laura Desfor Edles ( 9780521628853 )

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SYMBOL AND RITUAL IN THE NEW SPAIN
THE TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY AFTER FRANCO

By:

Laura Desfor Edles

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0521628857

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

16 April, 1998

Series:

Cambridge Cultural Social Studies

Pages:

212

Description:

This book examines the role of culture in social change and Spanish democratisation post-Franco.

Synopsis:

This is a book about the role of culture in social change and the Spanish transition to democracy after Franco. Laura Desfor Edles takes a distinctively culturalist approach to the 'strategy of consensus' deployed by the Spanish elite and uses systematic textual interpretation (with a particular focus on Spanish newspapers) to show how a new symbolic framework emerged in post-Franco Spain which enabled the resolution of specific events critical to the success of the transition. In addition to uncovering underlying processes of symbolization, she shows that politico-historical transitions can themselves be understood as ritual processes, involving as they do phases and symbols of separation, liminality and re-aggregation.

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