International Journal of Iberian Studies: Most Cited Articles http://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/ijis?TRACK=RSS Please follow the links to view the content. Culture-led strategies for urban regeneration: a comparative perspective on Bilbao http://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ijis.16.3.187/1?TRACK=RSS Culture is used as a development strategy in many European cities, a means to attract capital, to improve the image of the city, and to promote unity and cooperation. Like other strategies, it has winners and losers and, in its symbolic meanings, may provoke conflict. Michael Keating and Monika de Frantz Thu Oct 20 08:48:18 UTC 2022Z El proceso de la recuperacin de la memoria histrica en Espaa: Una aproximacin a los movimientos sociales por la memoria http://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ijis.19.1.25/1?TRACK=RSS This article analyses the socio-political phenomenon of the recovery of historical memory in Spain. The way that the transition to democracy developed included what is now called the Spanish model of impunity, the main consequence of which is that the victims of the Francoist repression received neither due recognition nor moral, juridical or economic reparations. The article studies the elements that have intervened in this process during the last five years: the normalization of the history of the Spanish Civil War and Francoist repression; the birth and consolidation of the associative movement for Memory; and the adoption of institutional measures to compensate the victims. Lastly, from a historiographical perspective, the text raises the issue of the increasing political and media manipulation of the Memory phenomenon. Sergio Glvez Biesca Thu Oct 20 08:48:25 UTC 2022Z The role of the Guggenheim Museum in the development of urban entrepreneurial practices in Bilbao http://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ijis.16.3.177/1?TRACK=RSS The Guggenheim Museum has had many ‘effects’ on the lives of local citizens and politicians in Bilbao as well as on wider communities such as architects, planners, cultural policy-makers or museologists. This article, however, deals with the effect that the museum has had on the urban governance practices in Bilbao. Urban policy literature has clearly identified that contemporary cities are adopting an entrepreneurial approach to deal with increasing pressures to compete with each other and attract investment in a globalized world. This approach is connected to neo-liberal state policies that threaten social inclusion and democracy. The Guggenheim Bilbao Museum has to be considered within this wider trend and has played an important role in the consolidation of urban entrepreneurialism in Bilbao. The danger is, as I will show, that these practices can be taken for granted without internal reflection, and can therefore be institutionalized in urban policy. Sara González Ceballos Thu Oct 20 08:48:39 UTC 2022Z The construction of masculinity in the Spanish labour movement: Astudy of the Revista Blanca (1923–36) http://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ijis.24.3.201_1?TRACK=RSS This article places discourse on masculinity in the anarchist Revista Blanca (1923–36) within the broader setting of the Spanish labour movement and recent feminist and gender analyses of 'hegemonic' and 'subordinate' expressions of maleness. Rather than supposing a rigid representation of masculinity, anarchist writers in the Revista Blanca posed several models although these models conformed to certain criteria and were characterized by their adherence to notions of working-class dignity, political integrity and values of truth as weapons against bourgeois 'double standards' and privilege. Such expressions of masculinity also inhered in particular constructions of femininity within the review and the movement more broadly. In turn, 'dissident' expressions of masculinity, seen as overly aesthetic, effeminate or even homosexual, were rejected. While engaging with new tropes of masculinity emerging in the early twentieth century and providing models that broke with some dominant forms of masculinity, writers in the Revista Blanca also shored up boundaries between the genders and sexes. This article makes a contribution to work on anarchist history, labour history and the history of gendered relations. Richard Cleminson Thu Oct 20 08:54:28 UTC 2022Z Academic cheating in Spain and Portugal: An empirical explanation http://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ijis.21.1.3_1?TRACK=RSS Despite its obvious interest and potential for concern, empirical research on the cheating phenomenon among university students has almost exclusively been carried out in the United States, usually covering only a few universities in a given region. Little is known about cheating in European universities, let alone the Iberian Peninsula. In this article we aim to contribute towards filling this gap by presenting evidence of this illicit behaviour in Portugal and Spain. Based on a survey of undergraduate students on Economics and Management courses, we conclude that there is a pervasive culture of cheating in these two countries, reaching relatively high levels in universities. Using econometric techniques, which control for a wide set of variables likely to influence a student's propensity to cheat, we found that Spanish students are relatively more prone to breaching the academic code of conduct than their Portuguese counterparts, and that the implementation of Honour Codes by universities constitute a promising approach in curbing cheating in academia. Aurora A.C Teixeira and Maria de Ftima Rocha Thu Oct 20 08:48:37 UTC 2022Z Accounting for the turn towards secession in Catalonia http://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ijis.27.2-3.219_1?TRACK=RSS Abstract Since the mid-2000s, the Catalan secessionist movement has become a key protagonist in the territory’s political landscape, moving from the margins to become the axis of political dispute. This article contextualizes this change and argues that its emergence can be accounted for by a series of structural changes, which include the evolution of Catalonia’s weight within Spain, identity shifts and comparative economic decline. The discrediting of once dominant political ideologies has intensified following the post-2008 economic crisis, which has resulted in a moderate pro-independence movement successfully subsuming a full range of grievances. Andrew Dowling Sun Jun 05 16:24:25 UTC 2022Z Reaching Land's End: new social practices in the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela http://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ijis.21.2.131_1?TRACK=RSS Since the 1980s, there has been a steady recovery of the Jacobean pilgrimage involving thousands of people travelling on foot along the routes followed by medieval pilgrims who made the journey to Santiago de Compostela. The aim of this article is to explore the global and local variables that intervene in this revival, as well as the range of social groups and actors that provide the institutional framework for the ritual practices of the pilgrims. This article analyses the secular transformation of the Jacobean pilgrimage paying particular attention to the extension of the Pilgrim's Way to Cape Finisterre, where the transformation reaches its maximum expression and pilgrims ritualise the achievement of their goal in the contemplation of the sun setting over the Atlantic Ocean at Land's End. Nieves Herrero Thu Oct 20 08:47:58 UTC 2022Z Outstanding challenges in a post-equality era: The same-sex marriage and gender identity laws in Spain http://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ijis.21.1.41_3?TRACK=RSS Spain has captured international attention with regards to equality for sexual minorities, recently approving laws that allow same-sex couples to marry under the same conditions as different-sex couples (Law 13/2005) and that allow transgender people to change their name in the register without having to go through compulsory surgery (Law 3/2007). Using intersectionality as a framework for my analysis, I explore the limitations of the notion of equality in both legal texts by adding an analysis that includes not only sexuality, but also gender, ethnicity, age, and class. Both laws aimed at satisfying the demands of social movements and were designed to overcome inequality and have a relevant symbolic impact. Despite this, it is argued, they were not framed to transform society in depth. Both laws are contributing to reproduce inequality by not taking into account multiple discriminations. Raquel Platero Thu Oct 20 08:48:30 UTC 2022Z A por ellos!: racism and anti-racism in Spanish football http://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ijis.18.3.141_1?TRACK=RSS Racism at Spanish football grounds is commonly perceived to be confined to the racist or neo-fascist predispositions of the archetypal skinhead hooligan. This narrow view of racism thwarts contemporary anti-racism initiatives since it conceals other, less visible forms of racialized expressions in football. The current official and public concern over racist behaviour in Spanish football provides opportunities for promoting anti-racism in football, but only if the serious limitations of the prevailing identification of racists with ultras are acknowledged. Paradoxically, many of the ultra groups popularly stigmatized as racist thugs are, in fact, a driving force behind the anti-racism projects and campaigns currently being implemented. Ramn Spaaij and Carles Vias Thu Oct 20 08:47:57 UTC 2022Z The Work-Life Balance I New gendered relationships in Spain: the other in the care triangle http://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/ijis.20.1.41_1?TRACK=RSS Spanish couples have found new ways of organising their productive and reproductive lives within the domestic sphere. The increasing role of women in the labour market provides the basis for these new domestic structures, yet few social policies have been advanced to create greater compatibility between the worlds of work and home. Mothers of the new generation have to think of strategies to reconcile their labour and family life, with the employment of domestic service emerging as one of the most significant alternatives in recent years. On the other hand, immigration has suffered many changes, the most important being its increase and its feminisation. This is the result of the transformations experienced by the countries of origin of the migrants, including free-movers from the European Union, as well as the consequence of the creation of a new demand for workers in the receiver countries. Female employers and domestic employees meet each other in one home that of the working Spanish mother now characterised by ethnic or cultural diversity and the permanent negotiation of individual, familial and group identities. The article analyses the discourse of working mothers who employ domestic service to care for their children, as well as the discourse of female migrant/immigrant domestic workers from Eastern Europe, North Africa and Latin America. Constanza Tobo and Magdalena Daz Gorfinkiel Thu Oct 20 08:48:20 UTC 2022Z