SOCRES · Social Republicanism in XIXth c. Spain
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2019-09-01 → 2021-08-31
- EU contribution
- €158,122
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF-EF-ST
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Results in brief
Social Republicanism in XIXth c. Spain
The SOCRES (SOCial REpublicanism in 19th century Spain) project studies an almost forgotten episode of Spanish contemporary history, the “cantonal revolution” of 1873, which had its epicenter in the military harbor of Cartagena (South East of Spain). This movement – quite similar to the Paris commune of 1871 in its political project – played an important role in the global history of revolutions, socialism and colonial emancipations, even if its memory has been erased. SOCRES aims at rediscovering the insurgents and their political thought. It also studies the role of exiles, deportees, migrants and seamen in the global diffusion of social republican ideas, investigating both the roots and echoes the insurrection had in the colonies (mostly Philippines and Cuba), and in the rest of the world.
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Project objective
The SOCRES project will investigate the ‘Cantonalist’ revolution, a Spanish socio-republican insurrection which burst out in 1873 in Cartagena, a military harbour in the South East of Spain. Though quite similar to the well-known Paris commune (1871), the Cantonalist insurrection was later totally forgotten, in contrast with its French counterpart. By documenting this experience of a social republicanism built ‘from below’, the SOCRES project hopes to shed new light on the history of political thought. It will also challenge the clichés about the political backwardness of Southern Europe and about the political ‘apathy’ of Spanish society till 1931. In the SOCRES project, a strong attention will be dedicated to the role of exiles, deportees, migrants and seamen in the global diffusion of socio-republican ideas at that time. It will lead to a connected history of 19th-c. Spain, showing that political and cultural movements in the metropolis had both roots and echoes in the colonies (mostly Philippines and Cuba), and in the rest of the world.
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Participants
- UNIVERSIDAD POMPEU FABRA · BarcelonaCoordinatorSpain
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