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In “The Exhumation as Emerging Archive,” Aragüete-Toribio concludes that exhumation processes can be understood, in the particular context of Spain (where authoritarian politics and transitional democratic pacts fostered a complex politics of memory and silence), as alternative systems of collection and assemblage, as new archives, whose information contests past historical and political discourses. The flow of scientific data and interpretation, of personal stories and of social claims attached to new material evidence connected to executions and disappearances has opened up new worlds of meaning in relation to the Civil War past. Such an archive, Aragüete-Toribio reiterates, is always at the mercy of the political, economic, social and scientific conditions that shape its being and transformation.
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Aragüete-Toribio, Z. (2017). The Exhumation as Emerging Archive. 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_8
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