What is it about?
The war rhetoric employed by politicians and mass media has excited traumatic memories and the legacy of yet unresolved issues in Spanish society. There is a risk of perpetuating pain and retraumatizing the elderly who are those suffering the most in the present pandemic.
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Why is it important?
It is important to attend to the language that is deployed as a weapon by the authorities and which, instead of uniting the population under one banner, may yet divide further. Political polarization, rife at times of conflict, is coupled with anxiety levels of unprecendented dimensions for most, while the elderly, who endured the Civil War and understand nothing of the present crisis, face yet again uncertainty, pain, loss.
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I trust that this paper, in line with my colleague Inés Olza and other rseaerchers in the social sciences, can help rethink the narrative of crisis, reframe it in different terms, using alternative metaphors that do not open unhealed wounds.
Dr Ana Belén Martínez García
Universidad de Navarra
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This page is a summary of: Memories of War and the COVID-19 Crisis in Spain, Human Arenas, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s42087-020-00145-3.
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