Suchergebnisse

Constructing geographical identities in democratic Spain after 1978 -- Recovering from the past : the problem of remaking Madrid after the dictatorship -- From a fortress to a plaza : the transformation of Madrid and the formation of a new civic identity -- Cultural mobilization and the civic identity project in the capital -- Just a teardrop in the rain? : the movida madrileña and a new democratic regional identity -- Not your same old Madrid : the changing face of the capital, 1979-1986 -- Not your same "new" Madrid : the end of the regional identity project -- And changing forms of identification in the capital, 1986-1991 -- Spain's democratic consolidation and Madrid as an alternative national model

The first full-length study of Madrid's transformation from the dreary home of a former dictatorship to a modern and vibrant city.

Out of a desire to prompt a reconsideration of Spanish nationalism and regionalism in the post-Francoist period, this article seeks to use the example of Madrid to expose the inadequacies of the widely accepted centre-periphery model that is often used to explain geographical identity formation in the period after 1975. Contrary to this model, which posits regional identities forming in response to a strong national centre, an examination of Madrid finds no evidence of a unified national identity, or Spanishness, articulated in the capital during this period. At the same time, there is evidence to suggest that the local and regional administrations of Madrid articulated their own regionalist project between 1979 and 1986, which implies a more global process that escapes the constraints of the centre-periphery model of identity formation and points to the creation of a multiple, or postmodern, democratic identity after the dictatorship.