The Dialectics of Modernity

The Archaeology of the Spanish Guerrilla in Northwestern Iberia

Authors

  • Carlos Tejerizo-García Università degli Studi di Genova
  • Alejandro Rodríguez Gutiérrez Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.21429

Keywords:

Guerrilla warfare, Modernity, Agency, Materiality, northwestern Iberia

Abstract

The development of guerrilla warfare in Spain (1936–1952) has, until very recently, received very limited academic attention, especially from an archaeological perspective. This paper presents some results from an ongoing archaeological project regarding the guerrilla movement in northwestern Iberia. We specifically discuss how the archaeological record may inform understanding of a more general process, that of the emergence of industrial and modern societies in peripheral territories. We argue that by addressing the material remains of guerrilla warfare we can delve into the dialectic between guerrilla groups and the local peasant communities and trace their mutual impacts. The paper concludes that guerrilla warfare was an active agent in the introduction of different aspects of industrial and modern economies.

Author Biographies

  • Carlos Tejerizo-García, Università degli Studi di Genova

    Carlos Tejerizo-García is Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Genoa. He is currently coordinating the project “INPACT: INdustrialization and the Process of Modernity: The ArChaeological Transformation of the Rural World (18th-21st c.)”, the main aim of which is to analyse from an archaeological point of view the impact of industrialisation in local communities and landscapes. He is also member of the collective Sputnik Labrego and co-director of the archaeological works dealing with the guerrilla warfare at the Ciudad de la Selva, in Casaio (Galicia, Spain).

  • Alejandro Rodríguez Gutiérrez, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

    Alejandro Rodríguez Gutiérrez is a PhD student currently working on the historical development of the guerrilla warfare in northwestern Iberia from a documentary point of view. He has extensively collaborated in the exhumation of the victims of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) within the Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica. He is currently developing a project dealing with the victims of the Spanis Civil War at El Bierzo. He is a member of Sputnik Labrego and co-director of the excavations at Ciudad de la Selva.

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Tejerizo-García, C. ., & Rodríguez Gutiérrez, A. (2022). The Dialectics of Modernity: The Archaeology of the Spanish Guerrilla in Northwestern Iberia. Journal of Contemporary Archaeology, 8(2), 252–273. https://doi.org/10.1558/jca.21429