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Published on
27 September 2014
Updated on
19 June 2017
Colloquia
The Archaeology of Violence

International colloquium organized by Inrap and the Museum of Louvre-Lens.
October 2, 3 and 4, 2104 at La Scène du Louvre-Lens

The archaeology of violence: wartime violence, mass violence 
by Alfredo González-Ruibal, CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)

In this presentation I argue that contemporary warfare is a process that does not end when the soldiers go home. Politics is war by other means, and those means are mostly material (concentration camps, mass graves, monuments and domestic architecture). I propose a long-term archaeology of the Spanish Civil War that analyses the several technologies of violence Francisco Franco’s dictatorial regime used during and after the conflagration.
Alfredo González-Ruibal is a visiting researcher at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (High Council of Scientific Research). His research focus is the recent past, especially the most negative aspects of modernity (war, totalitarianism, colonialism and predatory capitalism). He has carried out archaeological projects in Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea and Spain, where he has excavated the battlefields, concentration camps and mass graves of the Spanish Civil War.  

Bibliography :
  • Ferrándiz, F. (2013). "Exhuming the defeated: Civil War mass graves in 21st?century Spain". In American Ethnologist, 40(1): 38-54.
  • González-Ruibal, A. (2007). "Making things public: archaeologies of the Spanish Civil War". In Public archaeology, 6(4): 203-226.  
  • Renshaw, L. (2011). "Exhuming loss: memory, materiality and mass graves of the Spanish Civil War". Left Coast Press.
  • Viejo-Rose, D. (2011). "Reconstructing Spain: cultural heritage and memory after civil war". Sussex Academic Press.    
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Late Modern Period