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The Remembrance Phases of theFinnish and Spanish Civil Wars: A Comparative Study
Malmö University, Faculty of Culture and Society (KS), Department of Global Political Studies (GPS).
2021 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 14 HE creditsStudent thesis
Abstract [en]

This thesis analyses and discusses how the historical culture of the Finnish and Spanish Civil Wars have changed over time. The memories of these wars, that locate in the modern 30-year war- period in Europe, are still alive and affecting these societies. By comparing the changing narratives of Finnish and Spanish societies, the thesis aims to answer a question: in what ways has Finland treated the memory of the civil war in comparison to Spain?In order to sufficiently study the subject, the thesis aims to further develop a theory on civil war remembrance, by dividing the memory in four phases. The phases that embody different historical cultures and public narratives in these societies, are detected by using concept of uses of history and by interpreting historical artefacts. First, the theory is applied to each case, and finally, the Finnish and Spanish Civil War memories are compared.The thesis concludes that it can, in fact, detect a similar process in remembrance and public narratives of the civil wars in Spain and Finland. First phase is found to narrate the war from victors’ perspective; the second phase is characterised as ‘leftist memory culture’; and the third phase is discovered to include two or more narratives in a society. In the fourth phase, society experiences the war as shared trauma, however, the thesis finds that Spain has not yet reached the final phase of memory.

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2021. , p. 37
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Other Social Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-50704OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-50704DiVA, id: diva2:1646169
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KS GPS European Studies
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Available from: 2022-03-22 Created: 2022-03-21 Last updated: 2022-03-22Bibliographically approved

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