Catalonia has a tangible and intangible, forgotten, demolished, perhaps undervalued memory heritage, which nevertheless is of undoubted value. The institutions had never thought about recovering this memory heritage, to say nothing of implementing a territorial project to address the question....

The aim of this work is to provide the reader with a brief overview of the foundations of human memory from the perspective of Cognitive Psychology, in order to supply a theoretical framework to assess the scientific plausibility and validity of terms such as 'collective memory', 'social memory'...

Among the different terms that are commonly used to denote the social component of memories, historical memory has, probably, the strongest civic-political connotation. It is also the term most often used in the movement that defends the recovery of the popular memory of the Republic, the Civil...

This paper draws an innovative project of research and coverage of historical contents in the Web, about the repression of women during Francoism: the website http://presodelescorts.org, produced by Associació per la Cultura i la Memoria de Catalunya (ACMe) along 2006. The purpose of...

This paper aims to explore the different strategies used to re-vindicate the role of the Republican mother in the transmission of the Republican legacy. The study will focus on testimonial discourses of difference/dissidence in order to illustrate how the private sphere, domesticity, motherhood,...

This paper briefly analyses change in politics of memory on Spanish Civil War and Franco's dictatorship delivered by the Generalitat de Catalunya (the Catalan autonomous government). It does so from a political science's perspective studying how remembering the past has been constructed in terms...

The paper proposes an approximation to determinant place occupied by prisons at the end of the civil war and the dictatorship consolidation in the 40s. There are analyzed the principal contributions of the traditionalist thought in the configuration of the system of redemption of penalties by...

This is a proposal for a systematic and ontological review on the replica, which initial definition was formulated by the philosopher David Kellog Lewis, in the latter 1960. The author doesn't discuss Lewis's conceptions and critics but he meditate in a personal way on the essence of one...

It is customary in the US for the WASP Notion (White Anglo Sax and Protestant) to be bound to the principles and ideals of what the North American nation shall be; Nevertheless, WASP Nation manifestations aren't the sole expression, for indigenous/native nations, such as those from Mexico, Africa,...

The following article approaches a topic of certain present time. Although a lot of bibliography has been written about the prejudices and their forms of operating, only a few specialists have reached coherent results for the moment. This is not due to the inability of those that approached the...