Memorias transnacionales: un general portugués en el callejero de Madrid

Teresa Pinheiro

doi:10.5565/rev/rubrica.268

Transnational Memories: a Portuguese General in the streets of Madrid

Authors

Teresa Pinheiro Technische Universität Chemnitz https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2887-0449

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Abstract

Tetuán district in Madrid is home to many of the contested Francoist streets that Manuela Carmena’s municipal government managed to change the names of in 2018, in compliance with the so-called Law of Historical Memory. However, one street name in this area remains unchanged, Presidente Carmona Avenue, which honours the first president of the Portuguese dictatorship, Óscar Carmona. The existence of this street today is enigmatic for two reasons. On the one hand, almost all references to Carmona disappeared from Portuguese streets after the revolution of April 25, 1974. On the other, the permanence of a street in memory of the Portuguese dictatorship in Madrid is surprising given that references to Francoism are disappearing.
This article aims to shed light upon the different politics of memory that led to this apparent anomaly. Taking a theoretical perspective that creates a dialogue between memory studies and urban studies, the historical reconstruction of references to General Carmona in the urban space of Madrid will serve as a case study of the implications of what we may call transnational memories –the appropriation of transnational historical references in national narratives– for Iberian studies.

Keywords

Óscar Carmona, Madrid, Spanish Transition, Iberian diplomatic relations

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Author Biography

Teresa Pinheiro, Technische Universität Chemnitz

Teresa Pinheiro is a Professor for Iberian Studies at the Institute for European Studies of Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany. She graduated from the Universität zu Köln and the Universidade de Lisboa with degrees in German and Portuguese Studies and received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at the Universität Paderborn, Germany in 2002. Her research fields include emigration, representations of collective identity, and the politics of memory in the Iberian Peninsula. She is Reviews Editor of the International Journal of Iberian Studies and is currently working in a digital project on the Second Spanish Republic.
Recent publications in the field of Iberian Studies include “Iberian and European Studies – Archaeology of a New Epistemological Field” (2013), “Introduction. Mass Media and the Configuration of Memory in Contemporary Spain and Portugal” (with Esther GIMENO UGALDE, 2014), and “Memoria de la República en las transiciones democráticas ibéricas” (2015), among others. She is also co-editor of the volume Peripheral Identities: Iberia and Eastern Europe Between the Dictatorial Past and the European Present (2011).