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International Journal of Iberian Studies - Volume 24, Issue 2, 2012
Volume 24, Issue 2, 2012
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Being Spain in Brussels: Policy bureaucracy, agenda setting and negotiation in the EU policy process
Authors: SCOTT GREER and MARÍA MARTÍN DE ALMAGROSpanish bureaucracy is often said to be marked by poor coordination, poor information and inability to shape political agendas - but analyses of Spanish EU policy regularly present a list of its achievements. We focus on the 'policy bureaucracy' that monitors and acts on dossiers regardless of their political priority, using one EU policy area: health care services policy. For almost the entire EU health care debate, Spain was uncoordinated and invested little in formulating its interests or shaping agendas. Spain's policy bureaucracy fits a country that wins amendments at late stages, but does not engage early to shape policy outside its key priorities.
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The sad and painful news from Spain: Vatican relations with the Second Spanish Republic at the start of the Spanish Civil War, 1936
More LessThis article explores the relationship between the Holy See and the Second Spanish Republic during the first year of the Spanish Civil War - 1936. By exploring sources from the Secret Vatican Archives, a more complete understanding of this tenuous diplomatic relationship can be established. The Holy See remained neutral during the conflict, but Republicans and Nationalists wanted to gain Vatican recognition to garner greater international support. The problem for the Republic was, however, that its unofficial militias lashed out against symbols of conservatism, especially members of the Catholic Church. The Republic was angered that some Spanish Catholic clergymen had become outspoken supporters for the Nationalist rebellion against the government. The more radical actions of some followers helped to exacerbate the environment of confusion between the two states. This article works to highlight locations where this confusion prevented the two states from understanding each other's opinions and actions.
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Between automoción patria and maternal combustion: Driving through change in Sor Citroën (1967)
By RYAN PROUTCritics, fans and bloggers have recently articulated a polarized set of responses to the 1967 film Sor Citroën alongside a growth in nostalgia for early models of smallformat Spanish cars. This article uses key texts by Virginia Scharff and Deborah Clark on the history of women's automobilism to posit that the dissonances and paradoxes that have previously been identified in Sor Citroën reflect not only the contradictions of a stagnant desarrollista politics but also the ambiguities and paradoxes of a car culture that has its roots in a patriarchal paradigm of automobile production and consumption. The article further posits that Sor Citroën reflects an inflection point in Spanish automotive culture and that its central character anticipates debate over the relationship between cars, reproduction and female autonomy. Dialogue with post-transitional Spanish film asks if Sor Citroën was a decisive departure from automoción patria or simply a brief detour from its trajectory.
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Travel movies and the creation of a global memory: The cases of Lisbon and Granada
Authors: JOÃO MASCARENHAS-MATEUS and FRANCISCO SALVADOR-VENTURAImages of cities as an expression of the identity of cultures and peoples are part of a memory file of the globalized world. These images are made up of consolidated stereotypes and new elements, in part resulting from film productions of various kinds and with different objectives. This article discusses the cases of Granada and Lisbon through the first American travel movies dedicated to them (1920-1960), a genre of films that helped to create an 'image of the world' throughout much of the twentieth century. The context of the development of these film productions and the partly common mechanisms they employed is addressed, shaping the global memory of these two emblematic cities of the Iberian peninsula.
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REVIEW
More LessCATHOLICISM, WAR AND THE FOUNDATION OF FRANCOISM: THE JUVENTUD DE ACCIÓN POPULAR IN SPAIN 1931-1939, SID LOWE (2010) Eastbourne, Portland and Ontario: Sussex Academic Press (in association with the Cañada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies), 332 pp., ISBN 978-1-84519-373-7 (hbk), £55
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Volume 37 (2024)
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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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