MEMORY AS THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH: A CRITICAL DISCUSSION OF PALOMA AGUILAR'S WORK

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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their useful comments on the first draft of the manuscript. I am also extremely grateful to Bryan Cameron for his patience in helping me prepare the final version of the article.

Notes

1. See María Luz Morán's “Los estudios de cultura política en España.”

2. Latin America is a good example. See Jelin's State Repression and the Labors of Memory .

3. See Howard Schuman and Amy D. Corning's “Collective Knowledge of Public Events: The Soviet Era from the Great Purge to Glasnost” for more on the latter.

4. See Fukuoka's “School History Textbooks and Historical Memories in Japan: A Study of Reception.”

5. See Druliolle's “Democracy Captured by its Imaginary: The Transition as Memory and Discourses of Constitutionalism in Spain.”

6. See Juliá's “Memoria, historia y política de un pasado de guerra y dictadura.”

7. The expression is Kansteiner's (180).

8. Another metaphor is used by Steinmetz to convey the same idea, namely the “positivistic haunting” of social science (3).