Rethinking collective trauma in the 20th century: Memory, victimhood and the temporality of the Spanish Civil War

Rafael Pérez Baquero holds a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Murcia (Spain), where he also worked as a pre-doctoral Researcher (FPU-2015/00566) in conjunction with a Fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education. His doctoral dissertation was entitled Narrating History, Remembering Trauma: Memory and Forgetfulness of Spanish Civil War, Eighty Years Later. He also holds an MA in Theoretical and Practical Philosophy (2014) from UNED (National Distance University of Education), where he became University Expert in Social Memory and Human Rights (2018). He has been a Visiting Researcher at Cornell University (2017), Birkbeck, University of London (2018), and the University of Tartu (2020). His research delves into the dynamics and influences that arise between collective memory and the writing of history in order to apply this theoretical background to the Spanish context, with a specific focus on exploring the evolution of the memory of the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) during the democratic transition and thereafter.