CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 4Spanish Culture and IdentitySpanish History and PoliticsMemory, violence, and history

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 37 of the 37 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

Spain’s Valley of the Fallen, Where Human Remains Disappear: A Funerary Monument for a Dictator

Open access
Vila, Laia, Solé Barjau, Queralt·2021·Journal of Contemporary Archaeology
DOI 10.1558/jca.41462
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

This paper reflects on the Franco dictatorship's ideological use of the bodies of Spanish Civil War dead at the Valle de los Caídos (Valley of the Fallen) monument near Madrid. It examines how from 1958 onwards human remains were exhumed from cemeteries and mass graves across Spain and reinterred at the site, and it argues that, much like the setting and architecture of the memorial complex itself, they were used politically to make a distinction in Spain's national memory between the war's winners and losers. This served as the foundation for the necropolitical legitimacy of the Franco regime.

Overview

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1558/jca.41462

Cites

37 of 37 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Verification

Claims the paper makes

We couldn’t retrieve this paper’s full text, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Citations

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 3

  1. Canosa-Betés, J. 2016. "El Valle de los Caídos. Revisando la proyección en el paisaje del mayor monumento del Franquismo." Poster presentation at the IX Young Researchers in Archaeology Conference, June 2016, Santander, Spain.
  2. ____. and A. Robbens. 2017. "Mass Graves, Landscapes of Terror: A Spanish Tale." In Necropolitics: Mass Graves and Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights, edited by F. Ferrándiz and A. Robben, 91-118. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
  3. Payne, S. 1999. Fascism in Spain. Madison: University Wisconsin Press.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Related

Metadata

Authors
Vila, L., & Solé Barjau, Q.
Affiliations
Universitat de Barcelona (ES)
ORCID
Vila, Laia
Venue
Journal of Contemporary Archaeology
Publisher
Equinox Publishing
Published
2021-05-17
Volume
7
Issue
2
ISSN
  • 2051-3429 (ISSN-L)
  • 2051-3437
DOI
10.1558/jca.41462
OpenAlex
W3161194539
Cited by
3
References
36
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2023: 1
FWCI
1.15
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by-nc-nd
Locations
  • Journal of Contemporary Archaeology (publishedVersion)
  • Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona (Universitat de Barcelona) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Spanish Culture and Identity
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Spanish History and Politics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Memory, violence, and history
Keywords
Valle de los Caídos, Francoism, Spanish Civil War, human remains, exhumation, reinterment, mass graves, national memory, necropolitics, Francoist ideology, commemoration

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review