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This chapter examines some of the ways in which memory is used to provide a framework that not only helps to make sense of the present, but also enables the production of forward-looking actions and stances. In addition to the argument that the past is central to the present, the aim of this chapter is to emphasize the connection between past events and current collective actions and motivations, and the ways in which this link is used by politicized subjects in an attempt to improve their conditions in both the here-and-now and in the (uncertain) future. My discussion illustrates this relationship by focusing on the Spanish socio-political context, where the right to remember the atrocities of the Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship is strongly contested. Arguing in favour of using those memories in the formulation of future-oriented actions, which seek social progress, the chapter specifically draws upon the case of the Asturian miners and some of the protests in which they have been involved since the 1930s.
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Sabido, R.M.S. (2016). Echoes of the Spanish Revolution: Social Memories, Social Struggles. In: Hajek, A., Lohmeier, C., Pentzold, C. (eds) Memory in a Mediated World. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137470126_9
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