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Review of Amelang.pdf

February 27, 2020/in article

This article considers the pinturas of New Spain from the Relaciones Geográficas de Indias as an ambitious and imperialistic metropolitan project for a Ptolemaic chorography of the Indies that was, in the end, redefined in the colony by the tlacuiloque and the local communities as a sort of ‘invention of a New Spain’. For the Council of Indies, the project of the Relaciones and their pinturas meant the final stage of a cosmographical appropriation of the American territories. For New Spain, however, the resulting hybrid cartographic representations meant a sort of foundational act of a “New Spain”. The local communities and the authors of the pinturas took the opportunity given to them by their new lords to reinvent their own version of the territory appropriating the initial imperial design to establish their own new identities.

In Memoriam

February 27, 2020/in article

Entre el Poder y la Obediencia: El Gobierno en la España de Franco

February 27, 2020/in article

De entre las instituciones políticas levantas por la dictadura de Franco, solo una llegó a alcanzar auténtica sustantividad: el Gobierno. Ante la inexistencia de partidos políticos y de un Parlamento democrático, el Consejo de Ministros del franquismo concentró simbólica y efectivamente todos los poderes. Sin embargo, la lógica autoritaria del sistema impidió que se desarrollara autónomamente como órgano colegiado, al encontrarse bajo la dirección del Jefe del Estado, autoridad suprema del régimen. Partiendo de un enfoque multidisciplinar que combina la exégesis de los textos legales con la revisión de las aportaciones doctrinales, este artículo analiza la paradójica situación del Gabinete, atendiendo a su configuración jurídica, a la evolución de su estructura y funciones, y al perfil de sus integrantes.

Among the political institutions established by Franco’s dictatorship, only one could reach substantive autonomy: the Government. Considering the inexistence of political parties and a democratic Parliament, the francoist Council of Ministers gathered all powers both symbolically and effectively. Nevertheless, the authoritarian logic of the system prevented it from autonomously developing as a collegiate organ, situated under the direction of the Head of State, supreme authority of the regime. Starting from a multidisciplinary approach that combines the exegesis of the legal texts with the revision of the doctrinal contributions, this article analyses the paradoxical situation of the Cabinet, attending to its legal shape, the evolution of its structure and functions, and the profile of its members.