La hambruna española
Bienvenidos a la página web del proyecto de investigación “La hambruna española: causas, desarrollo, consecuencias y memoria (1939-1952) (HAMBRUNA)” (PID2019-109470GB-I00 / AEI / 10.13039/501100011033). Aunque numerosos trabajos han abordado la traumática y violenta experiencia de la posguerra franquista, un fenómeno clave para entender ese periodo no ha sido analizado en profundidad: la hambruna española. El proyecto HAMBRUNA pretende terminar con este silencio y este vacío historiográfico, estudiando los “años del hambre” entre 1939 y 1952.
Con un equipo interdisciplinar, formado por investigadores e investigadoras nacionales e internacionales, HAMBRUNA continúa una línea precedente de investigación sobre la guerra civil y el franquismo, pero se presenta como un proyecto innovador que pretende abordar todas las dimensiones del fenómeno analizado apoyándose en su marcado carácter interdisciplinar; generar resultados de investigación contrastados mediante la asistencia a congresos y la publicación en revistas y editoriales de prestigio; y tener un impacto social a través de la divulgación de los resultados entre el conjunto de la ciudadanía.
Welcome to the website of the research project "Spanish famine: causes, development, consequences and memory (1939-1952) (HAMBRUNA)” (PID2019-109470GB-I00 / AEI / 10.13039/501100011033). Although numerous works have studied the traumatic and violent experience of the Francoist postwar period, a key phenomenon to understand this period has not been deeply analyzed: the Spanish famine. The project HAMBRUNA aims to put an end to this silence and to this historiographical gap, by studying the “years of hunger” between 1939 and 1952.
With an interdisciplinary team comprising national and international experienced researchers, HAMBRUNA continues a previous line of research into the civil war and Francoism. However, it is as an innovative project that endeavors to deal with all the dimensions of the phenomenon being scrutinized; to generate research results that will be contrasted with the attendance at conferences and publications in editorials and high impact journals; and to obtain a social impact through the dissemination of the results among the academic and non-academic community.
Actividades
Exposición: "La hambruna silenciada. El hambre durante la posguerra franquista (1939-1952)"
Entre el 25 de octubre y el 23 de diciembre de 2022 podrá visitarse la exposición itinerante sobre la hambruna española. Ha sido comisariada por Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco y Gloria Román Ruiz. Ha sido financiada por la Fundación BBVA, el Ministerio de la Presidencia, el de Economía y Competitividad, la Diputación y la Universidad de Granada.
JORNADAS DE MEMORIA DEMOCRÁTICA. Arqueología e Historia de la Guerra Civil y la dictadura franquista
JORNADAS DE MEMORIA DEMOCRÁTICA. Arqueología e Historia de la Guerra Civil y la dictadura franquista
Noticias
"Determinantes de las diferencias nutricionales en la España rural mediterránea, 1840-1965 Cohortes de nacimiento: una comparación entre la agricultura de regadío y la agricultura de secano&q
31/5/22
Nuevo artículo de María Isabel Ayuda, Javier Puche y José Miguel Martínez Carrión
"Determinantes de las diferencias nutricionales en la España rural mediterránea, 1840-1965 Cohortes de nacimiento: una comparación entre la agricultura de regadío y la agricultura de secano":
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4105009
The deadline for submission of proposals for the INTERNATIONAL CONFERECE EUROPEAN FAMINES is extended until 15 June.
31/5/22
The deadline for submission of proposals for the INTERNATIONAL CONFERECE EUROPEAN FAMINES is extended until 15 June.
https://rednisaldes.es/international-conference-european-famines-between-history-and-memory-19th-and-20th-centuries/
Disponible Online el SEMINARIO CEHI: Investigación "Hambre y Genocidio en la Ucrania Soviética: una visión desde la España Republicana"
12/5/22
Disponible Online el SEMINARIO CEHI: Investigación "Hambre y Genocidio en la Ucrania Soviética: una visión desde la España Republicana"
Publicaciones
Echoes of famine: Effects of the embodied memories of the Spanish Hunger Years (1939–1952) on survivors’ subsequent food practices and attitudes
8/5/23
Gloria Román Ruiz has just published this article in Memory Studies Journal.
Abstract
This article explores the echoes that resonate in the present of the embodied memories of the Spanish Hunger Years (1939–1952) during the post-war period of Franco’s dictatorship. More specifically, it analyses both the bodily and mental effects of those traumatic memories on the survivors’ subsequent dietary practices and their perceptions of the socio-political reality. For this purpose, the study relies on the first-hand personal memories of those who were children during the 1940s. It is argued that there are continuities between these embodied memories and the eating habits of the survivors and their attitudes towards subsequent periods of prosperity and crisis.
You can access the full article via the following link.
Building an Empire and Bringing About a Famine: The Allied Economic Blockade of Spain during the Second World War (1939–1945), new article published Contemporary European History
14/3/23
Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco has just published an article in Contemporary European History on how the economic blockade over Spain aggravated the Francoist Famine in 1939-1942
You can see all the details HERE
Abstract This article focuses on the Francoist ‘New State's’ foreign policy as a means of explaining the failure in food supplies which led to ‘Franco's famine’ in the early 1940s. It contends that eschewing strict neutrality in favour of pro-Axis policies after the outbreak of the Second World War contributed to creating the famine. Faced with Spain's Germanophile stance, first Britain, and later the United States, took a series of measures aimed at preventing any form of Spanish participation in the war. Most significant among these was the strictly managed economic blockade of Spain, which exacerbated problems of basic supply...
Struggling for bread, policing the streets: Urban public (dis)order and control of resources in post-war Spain (1939–1948), artículo publicado en Journal of Historical Geography
23/2/23
Alejandro Pérez-Olivares ha publicado un artículo en la revista "Journal of Historical Geography", donde analiza el control social y la distribución de recursos en el Madrid de posguerra (1939-1948).
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