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Search... Militer: Think the cause of the ‘disappearances’ of Franquism in the light of the careers of archaeologists and anthropologists

Abstract

The problem of the cause of the ‘victims of Franquism’, which has emerged since the early 2000s in Spain, is hybrid, on the one hand, of the logic of remembrance and, on the other hand, the use of referrals promoted by the international field of so-called ‘post-conflict practices’ (mobilisation of ‘victims’, ‘reconciliation’ policies, fight for ‘truth, justice and reparation’, ‘impunity’, etc.). In order to document the details of this hybridisation, this article proposes to place the focus on the individual careers of a certain category of actors in this cause: not that of the heirs of the ‘missing’, but of professionals, archaeologists and physical anthropologists engaged in searching for bodies lying in mass graves and whose practical skills are precisely part of the construction of the cause. This article combines a procedural analysis of engagement and an approach that is mindful of sensitive forms of experimentation generated by the concrete treatment of a public problem. It points out that, far from being suddenly grafted problems or purely instrumental resources, the ‘memorial theme’ and the moral precepts of the post-conflict (‘truth’, ‘reparation’, ‘fight against impunity’, ‘disappeared’, etc.) are issues which have been emotionally and intellectually tested by experts, while being adjusted to concerns and inclinations formed in biographical experiments. By separating the multiple socialisation experiences (family, activist, professional) of stakeholders, it will be necessary to demonstrate that the experts have experienced, in the long course, experiences (sensitive, cognitive, practical) and interim interpreter managers (activists, scientists, morals) who are chairing the subsequent development of the cause. Excavation and Activism — How the Careers of Archeologists and Anthropologists Can Account for the Cause of the “Disappeared” The victims of Francoism have, since the start of the twenty-first century, be at the heart of a cause located at the crossing between memory and its transmission on the one hand, and Referents drawn international from “post conflict” practices on the other (including “victims”, “reconciliation” policies, or the struggle for “truth” and “unity”). In order to document this a hybridisation process, this article departs from the individual trajectories of a particular category of actors involved in this cause. Rather than discussing on matters of the “Disappeared,” it looks at professionals-archaeologists and physical anthropologists-who are involved in the search for and identification of the bodies buried in mass serious. Their skills contribute directly to shaping the cause that they further. This article is interested as being in the process of their involvement as it is in their thorough approach of sensitive experts that stem from the practical handling of a public issue. It shows that, from being purely incidental or constituting a continuation of instrumental resources for action, “memory” has in fact emerging as an issue along with post-conflict related moral precepts (“truth,” “struggle against unity,” or “Disappeared”). Moreover, experts also experience these at an emotional and intellectual level, as well as in line with personal concerns and inclinations forged in their own biographies. Through diachronistic addenda the various contexts of their socialisation (family, activism, career), I show that these actors have gone through a whole set of sensitive, cognitive, or moral experiences over a long period that they have been led to internalise frameworks of interpretations (be they activist, scientific, or moral) that, in turn, prove key to their input in addressing the cause of victims.

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