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- Volume 22, Issue 2, 2009
International Journal of Iberian Studies - Volume 22, Issue 2, 2009
Volume 22, Issue 2, 2009
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Languages and national identities in contact: the case of Latinos in Barcelona
More LessMass migration is having a dramatic effect on established minority groups in territories/regions/countries within larger pluri-nation states, especially where linguistic normalization policies are protecting national minority languages. Catalonia is one such case. With language recognized as the symbol of many of Spain's historical and current identity crises (Mar-Molinero 1996), the recent mass migration of Spanish-speaking Latin American immigrants to Catalonia adds a new postcolonial twist to an already complex language-national identity dynamic. A spectrum of national identification that has been historically dominated by essentialist and dual Catalan/Spanish national identities is now opening up to new national identities: entrenched essentialist Latin American identities, appropriated identities and multiple/hybrid identities associated with third space (Bhabha 1994). This article presents data from a four-year ethnographic study of the languages and identities of Latinos in Barcelona. The data both confirm and problematize a range of theoretical perspectives on language, migration and national identity formation.
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Europeanization and political parties: the Partido Popular and its transnational relations with the European People's Party
More LessDespite some recent studies addressing the Europeanization of political parties, we know very little about the relationship between national political parties and transnational party federations. By contrast, the framework for analysis developed in this article considers the active role of national parties in transnational politics and the specific nature of transnational party federations. This model is then applied to the Partido Popular and the European People's Party, of which the first has been a member since 1991. It shows that, between the foundation of the Partido Popular in 1989 and 2004, when it lost power at the national level, there have been mutual patterns of Europeanization but concrete indications of Europeanization in partygovernment relations are lacking. It is therefore still far from constituting a Europeanized party.
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Contradictions in the (still) gendered structure of Portuguese newspapers' production and discourse
Authors: Zara Pinto-Coelho and Silvana Mota-RibeiroThis article discusses the access of women to Portuguese newspapers against the background of a more general debate over the role of the media in the (re)production of gender inequalities in western societies. On one hand, we stress the qualitative and quantitative developments of women's participation as journalists in newspapers, by comparing the results of previous investigation in the Portuguese context with the statistics of our own research and with the statistics provided by the last Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) and by The International Federation of Journalists. In addition, we show how gender inequalities are manifested and (re)produced in and by newspaper texts and images, by combining Critical Discourse Analysis and visual social semiotics and by comparing our results with the ones provided by the GMMP. We analyse relevant structural written and visual categories and their implications in terms of gender ideologies and inequalities in one daily edition of Portuguese quality newspapers.
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Stone, granite and concrete: three images of the urban under Franco
More LessThis article proposes three images of the urban for examining the reconstruction, architecture and planning discourses in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. The city of stone, the city of granite and the city of concrete reveal the Falangists' preference for certain construction materials because of their symbolic and material association with the perceived historical sources of the New Spain the Roman and Hapsburg Empires and the ideal of a technically functional nation. In order to illustrate these images, this article succinctly reviews the post-war transformations of three selected sites: the Avinguda de la Catedral in Barcelona, the Montaa del Prncipe Po in Madrid and the bridges of Bilbao, together with the discourses that accompanied these developments.
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Book Reviews
Authors: Helen Graham and Filipe Ribeiro de MenesesTeaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War, Nol Valis (ed.), (2007), New York: The Modern Language Association of America (MLA), xi 601 pp., ISBN 978-0-873-52824-5, Paperback, 22, ISBN 978-0-873-52823-8, Hardback, 40
Franco and the Axis Stigma, David Wingeate Pike, (2008), London: Palgrave Macmillan, 220 pp., ISBN 13: 978-0-230-20289-4, Hardback, 45
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Volumes & issues
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Volume 37 (2024)
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Volume 36 (2023)
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Volume 35 (2022)
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Volume 34 (2021)
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Volume 33 (2020)
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Volume 32 (2019)
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Volume 31 (2018)
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Volume 30 (2017)
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Volume 29 (2016)
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Volume 28 (2015)
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Volume 27 (2014)
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Volume 26 (2013)
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Volume 25 (2012)
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Volume 24 (2011 - 2012)
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Volume 23 (2010)
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Volume 22 (2009)
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Volume 21 (2008)
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Volume 20 (2007)
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Volume 19 (2006 - 2007)
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Volume 18 (2005)
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Volume 17 (2004)
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Volume 16 (2003 - 2004)
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Volume 15 (2002 - 2003)
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Volume 14 (2001)