Gernika Gogoratuz presents Cultural Bonanzas and Mercantile Barbarisms
On the memory of the bombing of Gernika and other cultural “goods”.
Gernika Gogoratuz presents its 20th publication in the Red Gernika collection.
The research by Kepa Fernández de Larrinoa and Daniel Rementeria Arruza deals with the cultural policies of historical memory and cultural heritage.
The publication studies various museographic, memorial and celebratory practices linked to the transmission of traumatic historical knowledge. As a whole, these are cultural heritages erected with the aim of expressing collective emotions and suffering repressed and condemned to silence because of their belonging to the socio-political imaginary of those who were defeated in the so-called Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. But it may happen that, at the same time, these same cultural representations of military monstrosities against helpless civilians, catalogued in the present as historical memory, form part of other collective systems of cultural representation, becoming constituent elements of tourist marketing and the cultural leisure industry.
The case of Gernika has been analysed by delving into the field of cultural, artistic and historical representations and recreations promoted by both the administrations and local civil associations working for the restoration and safeguarding of the historical memory of the bombing of the town.
The Department of Development Cooperation of Elche City Council will present Gernika Gogoratuz with the recognition for all the work carried out in favour of the Culture of Peace.
The event will be held on Friday 16 December at the 6th Human Rights Gala, which this year will promote the culture of peace and give voice to the bombing of Guernica. The Elche Congress Centre will host the gala commemorating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, where Mª Dolores Galiana Pérez, Councillor for Development Cooperation, will present the award to María Oianguren Idigoras, Director of the Gernika Gogoratuz Peace Research Centre.
The event will be held in conjunction with the awareness-raising campaign “Visit Guernica”, which will use an audio recording to show the massacre that took place in 1937, its consequences and the courage of its inhabitants to build a new future based on reconciliation and a culture of peace.
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Images courtesy of Elche City Council
Del recuerdo del bombardeo de Gernika y otros «bienes» culturales.
Gernika Gogoratuz presenta su publicación número 20 de la colección Red Gernika.
La investigación de Kepa Fernández de Larrinoa y Daniel Rementeria Arruza versa sobre las políticas culturales de la memoria histórica y el patrimonio cultural.
La publicación estudia varias prácticas museográficas, memorialistas y celebratorias vinculadas a la transmisión de conocimiento histórico traumático. En su conjunto son patrimonios culturales erigidos con el fin de expresar emociones y sufrimientos colectivos reprimidos y condenados al silencio por su pertenencia al imaginario sociopolítico de quienes resultaron vencidos en la denominada Guerra Civil Española de 1936-1939. Pero puede ocurrir que, al mismo tiempo, esas mismas representaciones culturales de monstruosidades militares contra civiles desamparados, catalogados en el presente como memoria histórica, formen parte de otros sistemas colectivos de representación cultural, pasando a ser elementos constituyentes de la mercadotecnia turística y la industria del ocio cultural.
Se ha analizado el caso de Gernika adentrándose en el terreno de las representaciones y recreaciones culturales, artísticas e históricas que promueven tanto las administraciones como las asociaciones civiles locales que trabajan a favor de la restauración y salvaguarda de la memoria histórica del bombardeo de la villa.
