This book examines the role that science and culture held as instruments of nationalization policies during the first phase of the Franco regime in Spain. It considers the reciprocal relationship between political legitimacy and developments in science and culture, and explores the ‘nationalization’ efforts in Spain in the 1940s and 1950s, via the complex process of transmitting narratives of national identity, through ideas, representations and homogenizing practices. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the volume features insights into how scientific and cultural language and symbols were used to formulate national identity, through institutions, resource distribution and specific national policies. Split into five parts, the collection considers policies in the Francoist ‘New State’, the role of women in these debates, and perspectives on the nationalization and internationalization efforts that made use of scientific and cultural spheres. Chapters also feature insights into cinema, literature, cultural diplomacy, mathematics and technology in debates on Catalonia, the Nuclear Energy Board, the Spanish National Research Council, and how scientific tools in Spain in this era fed into wider geopolitics with America and onto the UNESCO stage.
Introduction: The Usefulness of Science and Culture as ‘Nationalization’ Tools in the Early Franco Regime
págs. 3-27
Science, Nation, and Culture: Changing Meanings
págs. 29-57
‘The Foreign Modernity’: Symbolic Order and Science Policy at the CSIC During Early Francoism
págs. 61-81
Scenarios of Science and Symbols of the New State: Political Resignification of the University City of Madrid
págs. 83-108
Epistemic Communities and Science Makers in the Franco Regime: A Study of the Nuclear Energy Board
págs. 109-130
págs. 131-151
In the Land of Men: Women in Applied Sciences at the CSIC
págs. 155-175
A Field Open to Women: Censorship of Children’s and Youth Literature Under Franco Through Women Readers
págs. 176-196
págs. 197-215
On the Political Value of Science: The Three Lives of Spanish Mathematics in Early Francoism
págs. 219-238
págs. 239-259
Of Queens, Soldiers, Nuns, and Bullfighters: Nationalist Narratives in the Fiction Films of the Franco Regime (1939–1963)
págs. 261-279
págs. 281-300
págs. 303-324
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