Konkurrenzen zwischen Mehrheit und Minderheit, Zentrum und Peripherie. Divergierende Bürgerkriegs- und Diktaturerinnerungen in Spanien und im Baskenland

Abstract

The memory of the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship remain objects of conflict. These conflicts are situated between the Spanish political left and right as well as between a dominant Spanish memory culture and minority memory cultures, such as those of Basque nationalists. These different perspectives in relation to the past are determined by each group’s future aims and are functionalized in order to promote a hegemonic version of the past. This means that the struggle for discursive hegemony cannot be separated from aspects like power, politics, and collective identities. The present contribution investigates the conflict lines between a Spanish memory community and a Basque nationalist community with its subversive memory versions in relation to the dominant narratives of the past.