Memory policies in Spain / Políticas de memoria en España

Abstract

The construction of the past of a community and its remembrance, i.e., the acceptance by the society of a historic and collective memory that is shared, is producing numerous studies and an interesting historiographical debate in Europe. In Spain, these investigations and historiographical debate come accompanied by the demands of the movement of historical memory that requires repair policies for victims of war and of the Franco regime and policy public memory by the State and its institutions on behalf of an important part of society. The development of these policies by the State contrasts with policies driven in other countries around us and Latin America, and with those developed in some autonomous communities.

Keywords

• Repression
• Human Rights
• victims
• Francoism
• memory