Santa Coloma de Gramenet: The Transformation of Leftwing Popular Politics in Spain (1968

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by  Andrea Davis

UC San Diego
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Santa Coloma de Gramenet : The Transformation of Leftwing Popular Politics in Spain (1968-
1986)
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Santa Coloma de Gramenet:
The Transformation of Leftwing Popular Politics in Spain (1968-1986)

A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor
of Philosophy

in

History

by

Andrea Rebecca Davis

Committee in charge:
Professor Pamela Radcliff, Chair
Professor Frank Biess
Professor Luis Martín-Cabrera
Professor Patrick Patterson
Professor Kathryn Woolard
2014
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Andrea Rebecca Davis, 2014
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The Dissertation of Andrea Rebecca Davis is approved, and it is acceptable in quality and
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University of California, San Diego
2014
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DEDICATION

To the memory of Selma and Sidney Davis
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Signature Page ................................................................................................................... iii
Dedication .......................................................................................................................... iv
Table of Contents................................................................................................................ v
Acknowledgements........................................................................................................... vii
Vita..................................................................................................................................... ix
Abstract of the Dissertation ................................................................................................ x
INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................. 1
Spain: In Europe’s Postwar Settlement and its Renegotiation............................................ 4
Dissertation Organization ................................................................................................. 16
CHAPTER 1
SPAIN’S LONG 1968: THE URBAN MOVEMENT OF THE 1970S...........................................25
The Church: Pre-Political Community Formation...........................................................29
Politicization: From Single Issue Protest to Neighborhood Organization.s.....................37
The Institutionalization of the Neighborhood Movemen.t..............................................49
CHAPTER 2
THE STRUGGLE OVER DEMOCRACY AND SOCIALISM IN THE POST-68 MOMENT: LOCAL
POLITICS (1977-1983) .................................................................................................... 60
The Left “In (the) Transition” at the Grassroot.s.............................................................64
Competing Visions of The Left: The Extra-Parliamentary Left...................................... 75
Competing Visions of the Left: The Parliamentary Left.................................................84
CHAPTER 3
THE AUTHORITARIAN LEGACY: ENFORCING THE “PACT OF SILENCE”.............................100
Leftwing Municipalities: Whose Public Sphere, Whose Civic Peace?..........................106
Undermining The Popular Narrative of Democratization............................................. 117
CHAPTER 4
THE STRUGGLE FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION: LOCAL EMPOWERMENT AND THE ROLE OF
STRONG CIVIC INSTITUTIONS IN THE STATE OF AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES ................128
The Unitary Struggle for Public Education (197-91981) .............................................134
Pedadgogical Reform and The Transfer of Jurisdictions to theG eneralitat..................146
Conflicting Local and Regional Responses to POSE Educational Reform....................163
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CHAPTER 5
THE SPANISH PEACE MOVEMENT AND THE EUROPEAN ALTERNATIVE TO
FIRST WORLD DEMOCRACY...........................................................................................169
The Anti-NATO Campaign: Renewing the Left from the Grassroots Up......................173
The Formalization of the Spanish Peace Movement.....................................................180
PSOE and the 1986 NATO Referendum...................................................................... 189
Bibliography ................................................................................................................200

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Over the course of this project I have received generous support.A t the
University of California, San Diego, I am grateful to the Department of History and the
University of California Humanities Network for funding my research and writin,g as
well as facilitating rewarding intellectual exchange. I am also grateful to the Fulbright
Institute of International Education andt he Program for Cultural Cooperation Between
Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States’ Universitie sfor providing me with two
years of research funds to support travel for interviewsa nd archival research.
I am indebted to those who supported me during research and contributed to the
evolution of this project. I was first introduced to the theory and practice of oral history
as a researcher for the Spanish Civil War Memory Project: Audiovisual Archive of the
Francoist Repression, and I am grateful to the team for inspiring this work. In Barcelona,
Stephen Jacobson of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra offered his mentorshi,p and
researchers from El Centre d’Estudis sobre les Èpoques Franquista i Democràtica of the
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona provided me with resources and guidanceI. received
great help from librarian Cristina Aguiriano of the Museu d’història de la immigració de
Catalunya, archivist Rosa Delgado of the Arxiu municipal administratiu de Santa Coloma
de Gramenet, and librarian Luis Soler Alsina of the Biblioteca central de Santa Coloma
de Gramenet. My deepest gratitude goes to all those who shared their stories and
hospitality with me, especially Agustina Rico and Salvador López Arna l.
Many thanks are due to my committee members Frank Biess and Patrick
Patterson. I particularly thank Luis Martín-Cabrera and Kathryn Woolard for inviting me
to participate in interdisciplinary research projects that were closely related to this
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project. My deepest thanks go to the chair of my committee, Pamela Radcliff, for her
intellectual guidance and kind support throughout this undertaking .
Special thanks go to Stanley Chodorow, who has been a generous and thoughtful
reader. My gratitude also goes to my colleagues and friends: to Nick Saenz for leading
the way, to Nancy Eagan, Meagan Strom, and Jessica Cordova for constant intellectual
stimulation, and to Anne Schenderlein for beingm y closest colleague and friend in the
program. I would also like to thank my family for their continual love and suppo,r t
especially Jeff and my father for their help in editing and formatting.
Chapter 3, in part, is being prepared for publication as Davis, Andrea, “Enforcing
the Transition: The Demobilization of Collective Memory in Spain, 197-91982,” Bulletin
of Hispanic Studies, Liverpool University Press, 2015.
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VITA

2001 Associates of Arts, Liberal Arts, Simon’s Rock College of Bard

2005 Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, Brown University

2014 Doctor of Philosophy, History, University of California, San Diego
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