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“Reburial and Commemoration” follows the trajectory of human remains from mass graves to their reburial place in municipal cemeteries. In this chapter, Aragüete-Toribio explores the politics around the identification and commemoration of human remains, examining how the process of reburial is enmeshed with the diverse desires and aspirations. The author examines how the production of different memorials and rituals to commemorate the human remains of those who were killed but also the absence of those who were never found. In it, Aragüete-Toribio concludes that a decentralised memory politics in Spain has generated a varied culture of memorialisation that operates often at the margins of institutional agencies and is engendered through an intense process of familial, social and political negotiations.
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Aragüete-Toribio, Z. (2017). Reburial and Commemoration. In: Producing History in Spanish Civil War Exhumations. World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61270-6_7
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