Survival of the common graves of the Spanish civil war in the 21st century. Cultural evidence, academic particularity

Abstract

In the present article an approximation is made to the different forms of cultural and historical production that have taken place in Spain around the mass graves of the Spanish civil war in the 21st century. A brief description is given of the different cultural productions that appeared in relation to each other and the incidence of the exhumations of mass graves in academic studies, especially in the field of history. Universities and researchers who have worked on mass graves as a unit of analysis are described and the contribution to historical knowledge of historical data that exhumations can contribute to the knowledge of Franco’s repressive processes is reflected.

Keywords

• guerra civil española
• fosa común
• exhumación
• represión política
• franquismo