This 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.
| ISBN: | 9780521621403 |
| Publication date: | 16th April 1998 |
| Author: | Laura Desfor Edles |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 255 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Cultural Social Studies |
| Genres: |
Cultural studies |
This 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.
Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain features in the following genres: Cultural studies
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Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain was written by Laura Desfor Edles and published by Cambridge University Press
Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain has 255 pages
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