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The political use of victimhood : Spanish collective memory of ETA through the war on terror paradigm
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Heath-Kelly, Charlotte and Fernandez de Mosteyrin, Laura (2021) The political use of victimhood : Spanish collective memory of ETA through the war on terror paradigm. Review of International Studies, 47 (1). pp. 1-18. doi:10.1017/S0260210520000182 ISSN 0260-2105.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210520000182
Abstract
Victims have become a topic of scholarly debate in conflict studies, especially regarding the impact of their activism on the evolution and termination of violence. Victims of terrorism are now enlisted within counterterrorism, given their moral authority as spokespeople for counter-narratives and de-escalation. Our research explores how Spanish terrorism Victims’ Associations have evolved across eras of political violence and how they mediate the translation of international War on Terror discourses into Spanish counterterrorism. We offer a topography of how the War on Terror has opened a ‘social front’ in Spanish counter-terrorism, with Spanish political elites prominently employing the Victims’ Associations to this end. Contemporary terrorism discourses are read back onto the memory of ETA, with Victims’ Associations assisting the equation of ETA with Al Qaeda and ISIS. Collective memory of the defeat of ETA has also contributed the veneer of ‘lessons learned’ to contemporary counterterrorism measures. Our research explores the fluidity of terrorism-memory and the importation of global terrorism discourses into Spanish politics, relying upon interviews with key stakeholders in Victims’ Associations, local politics, and the research director of the new Centre for the Memory of Victims of Terrorism in Vitoria.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | |||||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DP Spain and Portugal H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare J Political Science > JZ International relations P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | |||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Terrorism -- Prevention, Terrorism -- Prevention -- Government policy -- Spain, Terrorism -- Prevention -- Political aspects -- Spain, ETA (Organization) , Victims of terrorism -- Spain, Discourse Analysis, Narrative -- Political Aspects -- Spain, País Vasco (Spain) -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Review of International Studies | |||||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 0260-2105 | |||||||||
| Official Date: | January 2021 | |||||||||
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| Volume: | 47 | |||||||||
| Number: | 1 | |||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-18 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0260210520000182 | |||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This article has been published in a revised form in Review of International Studies https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210520000182. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © British International Studies Association 2020 | |||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 7 May 2020 | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 26 May 2020 | |||||||||
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