Spain XYZ
PROJECT COMPLETED (2021-2023)
We are witnessing a prolonged but inevitable process of generational change and, with it, the shift from the direct memory of events by their witnesses to what is remembered by the generation that did not experience them directly but has a certain knowledge of them. In other words, the shift from report to post-memory, or rather to the different versions of history that come from second or third voices or generations, whether from family members or the state, transmitted mainly through schooling.
Today, several generations coexist in Spain: the silent generation (those born between the thirties and forties), the baby boomers (those born between the forties and sixties), generation X (those born between the sixties and eighties), generation Y (those born between the eighties and nineties), generation Z (those born in the first decade of the 21st century) and finally the so-called generation T, born from 2010 onwards.
Each has been or will be an agent of change in a particular period, whether during the dictatorship, the Transition or in democratic Spain, and understands or will understand the past in very different ways. Their own experiences of the present and their knowledge of the past have led them to develop very different positions and sensibilities towards the same events, and where attitudes such as reconciliation, forgiveness, indifference, forgetfulness and hatred are all sides of the same coin: the knowledge - or ignorance - of Spain's recent past.
These inheritance(s) from the past are also relevant for the future, as they generate different responses to public policies at report and therefore require differentiated capacity management for reconciliation and forgiveness.
In addition to referring to the three cohorts, the degree scroll of project has been inspired by the Spanish Civil War defensive system known as the "XYZ Line" which is a good example of the heritage and site of report recovered by post-war generations for posterity.
1. Investigate the imaginaries, stereotypes and emotional attitudes towards the history of Spain that exist in different generations and determine the personal, partner-cultural, educational and political factors that influence them.
2. Identify the possible channels of transmission of these imaginaries and attitudes, as well as the dynamics of continuity and rupture, paying special attention to the role of women as bearers and transmitters of the report, be it staff, family or community.
3. Determine whether and, if so, to what extent there is a correlation between the policies of report and these imaginaries and positions in different generations.
4. Take stock of the effects they have had on citizens in terms of their capacity for reconciliation, (post)forgiveness and coexistence.
It is proposed to use two complementary qualitative methods:
1.In-depth, semi-structuredpersonal interviewswith members of families belonging to different generations, which will becarried outat goal to identify their imaginary and perception of the different stages of Spanish history, its sources and the influence that the policies of report regional and state policies have had on these aspects. Approximately ten families from each selected autonomous community will be taken as sample : Madrid, Navarre, Basque Country and Aragon.
2. Focus groups with representatives of the different generations (one cohort per group) which will have the purpose of goal to investigate the emotional positions and capacity for dialogue on the past, reconciliation or (post)forgiveness.
The project 214-MD-2021 receives funding from the Ministry of the Presidency, Relations with the Courts and report Democracy, at framework for the awarding of grants for activities related to the recovery of the report Democracy and the victims of the Civil War and the Dictatorship.
