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This research analyses the patterns of social interaction of a specific group of young people who play on-line games in a cybercafe in Barcelona. This group can be classified as a hybrid -on-line/ off-line- since their face-to-face interaction alternates with, and is frequently superimposed on, their virtual interaction. This means that the delocalization that accompanies other uses of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) occurs only in a limited way. What does take place is a reinterpretation of the forms of social interaction of whatever group of young people; at the same time, there is also an interpretation of new information technologies, adapting them to traditional forms of socialization. It is possible to observe how physical place and cyberplace are united and intermingled in various ways, as are face-to-face life and cyber-experience.

'Writing is a process; the act of transforming thoughts into print requires a non-linear sequence of stages or creative acts' (James B. Gray, cited by Cassany, 1993). I would add that it is also the act of transforming experience. This article describes my own personal process of transformation in the experience and understanding of vulnerable employment - a slow, open, recursive and difficult process. The first, academic, section flows easily. Then things get harder. The auto-ethnography was the most challenging part. Firstly because it was a matter of personal reflection; then because of a having to strip naked, as it were. Finding a reasonably elegant and flexible way to link the two sections was demanding, and one of the objectives of the exercise was to reach a satisfactorily readable end result.

Too often we forget that culture is not a social fact but a concept. In this article it will be argued that cultures do not exist, in spite of their apparent pervasiveness within the social sciences and in daily life. A question will be raised as to the ideological role of the idea of culture, that is, what effects does it produce in the social construction of reality? To do that, the concept and its uses will be criticized, noting that the very concept and its use in daily life represents practices of classification and segregation. Finally, it is suggested that the concept of culture should be abandoned and that we should look forward to new ways of conceiving human diversity more suitable to a situated ethical thinking.

Since they appeared, the studies of Science, Technology & Society (STS) have been interested in education as the key to help the citizens of tomorrow to participate in the discussions dealing with the future of technoscience. In Spain, the STS subjects became part of the secondary school programs since the educational reform. Nevertheless, the analysis of the textbooks used in Catalonia shows that a deterministic vision of science & technology - both of them thought as entities with their own logic of development, independent from social reality - coexists with a neutralistic conception, which considers technoscience as a basic tool that can be used by humanity either in a correct or an incorrect way. The student has the perception that science & technology shape the social reality, but that are somehow independent from society.

Anti-fascism makes working or fighting against fscism the top priority, and two basic types of anti-fascism emerged in Europe and North America from 1936 to 1945. The first was revolutionary; the second was conservative and even counterrevolutionary. From the Munich Agreement to the fall of France, and in the face of strong isolationist opposition, US counterrevolutionary anti-fascists—who are usually labeled "interventionists" in the historiography—articulated to an increasingly sympathetic public how fascist regimes jeopardized the United States' national security and way of life.

This work raises the study of creativity and creative processes as a relevant field for the sociological Social Psychology. In this way, the main goal of this work is to consider the creativity and the creative process as social processes. Considering therefore the need to analyse them in the social-cultural-historical context in which they occur, thus opening a new scenario to think about creativity and the creative process in the present time. In this new scenario, the dominant forms of knowledge circulation based on an individualizing 'ontology of creative works' are no longer unique. And their pertinence and legitimacy can be re-raised in the present time. In this way, this work also argues that different forms of knowledge circulation mean different socio-political implications. Thus, to specify and to consider them as a choice in terms of knowledge production, allows us to problematize them from the standpoint of creator/ producer and from the creative process' standpoint.

Having consolidated his power in the late 1920s, Joseph Stalin long focused on internal affairs: the Five Year Plans, collectivization of agriculture, rapid industrialization, and modernization of the Red Army. Despite his penchant for domestic policy, from the summer of 1936 Stalin's Soviet Union was increasingly drawn into foreign affairs. This article explores Stalin's foreign policy on the eve of the Second World War. The Soviet Union's multiple failures in forging an anti-Fascist alliance with Britain and France, most notably in the Spanish Civil War, will be explored as the prelude to Stalin's eventual decision, in August 1939, to authorize the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

This article examines the repression following General Franco's unconditional victory in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). It argues that the surrender of the Republic did not alter the Franco regime's determination to punish its ideological enemies. The repression was based on a cruel irony: the defeated republicans were responsible for the civil war and thus guilty of the crime of 'military rebellion'. Nevertheless, although thousands were punished, the article challenges claims that the post-war repression implemented a programme of ideological extermination.

L'anàlisi de les línies d'acció i de les prioritats polítiques de la Generalitat de Catalunya a través de l'estudi de les seves finances ens aporta una imatge més clara del seu paper en el primer exili francès. Les dificultats per aconseguir recursos, causades per la permanent incapacitat d'arribar a un acord de finançament amb el Govern espanyol a l'exili, van fer que les polítiques de suport a les institucions, a la cultura i a l'assistència als refugiats catalans de base es despleguessin amb resultats minsos a curt termini i mediocres a mitjà termini. El suport de la Generalitat a la concentració física dels principals polítics i intel·lectuals catalans va ser prioritari i on va esmerçar els seus millors recursos, especialment a la residència de Montpeller. La dependència econòmica de la Generalitat respecte a les institucions republicanes a l'exili va afeblir la figura del president Companys, va contribuir amb força al seu aïllament i va facilitar, finalment, la dispersió dels exponents del catalanisme polític.

Presentation of the dossier "From Munich to Paris (1938-1940). From the Spanish Civil War to the German New Europe"

Este artículo analiza la influencia de la guerra de independencia de Argelia (1954-1962) y de la Argelia independiente en tres ámbitos de la violencia política de la transición española. En primer lugar, muestra cómo el golpe de Estado del 23 de febrero de 1981 [23-F] se inspiró en el que tuvo lugar en Argelia en 1958. En segundo lugar, examina el apoyo de Argelia al nacionalismo saharaui y canario. En tercer lugar estudia cómo la guerra de Argelia fue un referente de ETA y de integrantes de comandos contra ETA. El objetivo del trabajo es mostrar la doble importancia de Argelia en los temas expuestos (como referente y actor político).

Analizamos el concepto de violencia en Por qué perdimos la guerra de Abad de Santillán en que explica la actuación anarquista durante la guerra civil española. Sobre la base de un enfoque de análisis de discurso foucauldiano, mostraremos que el autor parte de los discursos legalista e ilegalista del siglo XIX. No obstante, los modifica puesto que los anarquistas ya no se oponen al poder estatal sino que comparten este poder y participan aun en el gobierno. Nos centramos en motivos agonísticos representando posiciones opuestas sobre temas polémicos. La forma en que se expresan estas posiciones muestra si un discurso es históricamente hegemónico o no.

Seminario "Los gobernadores civiles durante el franquismo: gobernación, red gubernativa y personal político" (Barcelona, 28-29 noviembre 2019)


Justificación y desarrollo del Seminario indicado.

Este artículo analiza las formas en que la memoria traumática colectiva se traduce, entre otros procesos, en bienes materiales. Sostenemos que la producción de memoria es también un proceso económico que involucra la inversión de recursos con la expectativa de obtener beneficios. Por lo tanto, las manifestaciones de la memoria pública, (ej. fechas conmemorativas, monumentos, mausoleos y museos, espacios de conmemoración así como actividades educacionales a gran escala, publicaciones, representaciones artísticas, audio-visuales o literarias) dependen de la asignación de recursos como tiempo, espacio y dinero. A pesar del estatus sin precedentes que los estudios de memoria han alcanzado dentro de las humanidades y las ciencias sociales, la naturaleza económica de la memoria, especialmente de la memoria traumática, ha recibido escasa atención (Shauli y Schammah 2016). El recuerdo colectivo, que consume tiempo, espacio, insumos y otros recursos, no solo produce beneficios políticos, sociales y culturales-simbólicos, sino también económicos. Esto implica gestionar su producción, mercantilización, difusión, consumo y mantenimiento. Es a partir de estas premisas que el presente artículo ofrece una lectura ¨económica¨ del Valle de los Caídos.

Esta ponencia analiza algunas de las sombras más destacadas que de la Guerra Civil se proyectaron en el ámbito internacional con referencia a la España franquista entre 1939 y 1953. Estudia en primer lugar la importancia que tuvieron en la pervivencia del régimen de Franco las que en el texto se denominan No Intervenciones de Grandes Potencias en dos momentos cruciales de la historia del régimen: la Guerra Civil y el período 1945-1947/1948. La primera No Intervención acabó favoreciendo la victoria de Franco y perjudicando a la República. La segunda implicó la imposición de sanciones contra España, pero nunca llegó a plantear una acción proactiva decidida a acabar con la dictadura y en tanto que corolario de la victoria contra el Eje. Otra sombra estudiada de la Guerra Civil es la que se proyectó a raíz de la continuación de la estrecha relación de la España franquista con la Alemania nazi y la Italia fascista de los años 1936-1939 en la postguerra hasta 1944, siendo una de sus manifestaciones más importantes, pero no la única, su intento de participación en la Segunda Guerra Mundial junto al Eje.