Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain: The Transition to Democracy After FrancoThis is a book about the role of culture in social change and the Spanish transition to democracy after Franco. Laura Desfor Edles takes a distinctively culturalist approach to the 'strategy of consensus' deployed by the Spanish elite and uses systematic textual interpretation (with a particular focus on Spanish newspapers) to show how a new symbolic framework emerged in post-Franco Spain which enabled the resolution of specific events critical to the success of the transition. In addition to uncovering underlying processes of symbolization, she shows that politico-historical transitions can themselves be understood as ritual processes, involving as they do phases and symbols of separation, liminality and re-aggregation. |
Contents
Theories of transition and transitions in theory | 13 |
a history of divisions and democracy | 26 |
the core representations of | 41 |
the first democratic elections | 63 |
The 1977 Moncloa Pacts and the ritualization | 81 |
Conflict and consensus in the institutionalization of Spanish | 99 |
Conclusion and epilogue | 139 |
Notes | 151 |
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Other editions - View all
Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain: The Transition to Democracy after Franco Laura Desfor Edles No preview available - 2010 |
Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain: The Transition to Democracy after Franco Laura Desfor Edles No preview available - 1998 |
Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain: The Transition to Democracy After Franco Laura Desfor Edles No preview available - 1998 |
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